Let’s Acknowledge that Today is Not a Normal Day
Here’s note I sent my Trinity College students before class on Wednesday Nov 6th 2024, the day after the US Presidential Election.
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teaching
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
Thank You Lisa Smulyan
A thank-you letter to Lisa Smulyan, who taught me as an undergraduate in the Education Program at Swarthmore College, in celebration of her retirement.
My Response to Miss Manners on Professors and First Names
This morning I happened to see a Washington Post headline by advice columnist Miss Manners that caught my attention:
Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students
When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...
Teaching Interviewing with Annette Lareau, Listening to People
While teaching undergraduates over the past twenty years, I’ve relied heavily on the work of sociologist Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods, to hel...
Student Coauthors and Collaborative Scholarship
A colleague recently asked me how I decide whether to add students as co-authors of a scholarly publication. This topic matters a great deal across academia,...
Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students
This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...
Teaching Race and Education in the Archives
When I first began to teach educational history in the early 1990s, as a TA for Carl Kaestle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught me the value o...
Your Dean Favors ‘Experiential Liberal Arts’: Now What?
This op-ed essay by Jack Dougherty and Megan Faver Hartline was published online by the Campus Compact of Southern New England (CCSNE) on January 28, 2019 at...
Updated: How to Digitally Record and Transcribe an Interview
One of my most popular posts, originally published in November 2013, and updated October 2019:
Teaching How to Avoid Plagiarism
Tennyson O’Donnell, Director of Trinity’s Writing Center, asked several of us to join him this semester on ways to address plagiarism with “less policing and...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Tonight’s Educ 300 Class: Past and Present Activism on Anti-Immigration Policies
Dear students in Educ 300: Educ Reform Past & Present
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity students and alumni, Wed Oct 5th, 2016
[](http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/files/2016/09/Pathways-2016-virtual-physical-panel-e1475718108343.jpg)Both virtual (via video conference) and ph...
Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students
Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
Color and Money First-Year Seminar with Jasmine Gentry
First-Year Seminar Mentor Jasmine Gentry ‘17 leads our class in our Admissions simulation
How the CT Mirror hackathon taught me to be a student again
The clock had run out. At 2:30pm, our team was supposed to be heading to the downstairs auditorium to present our digital product to the panel of judges, but...
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
Pathways to Teaching discussion with recent Trinity Alumni on Tuesday, Oct 22nd at 6:30pm in Rittenberg Lounge
Come listen and learn from recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 from 6:30-7:30pm in Rittenberg Lou...
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Video on Individualized Degree Program (IDP) for Adult Learning
During my past decade at Trinity, several highly-motivated adult students have enrolled in my undergraduate classes through the IDP program, which raised the...
How (and why) to evaluate student writing as blind-review
At our small liberal arts college, whenever my students are working on a writing assignment on the same theme, I ask them to submit it in blind-review format...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity Alumni, Tues Oct 23rd, 2012
Join us as we speak with recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 7-8pm in Seabury S205. Guests w...
WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012
(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
Trinity College
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students
When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...
Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students
This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...
Teaching Race and Education in the Archives
When I first began to teach educational history in the early 1990s, as a TA for Carl Kaestle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught me the value o...
Your Dean Favors ‘Experiential Liberal Arts’: Now What?
This op-ed essay by Jack Dougherty and Megan Faver Hartline was published online by the Campus Compact of Southern New England (CCSNE) on January 28, 2019 at...
Teaching How to Avoid Plagiarism
Tennyson O’Donnell, Director of Trinity’s Writing Center, asked several of us to join him this semester on ways to address plagiarism with “less policing and...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Tonight’s Educ 300 Class: Past and Present Activism on Anti-Immigration Policies
Dear students in Educ 300: Educ Reform Past & Present
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity students and alumni, Wed Oct 5th, 2016
[](http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/files/2016/09/Pathways-2016-virtual-physical-panel-e1475718108343.jpg)Both virtual (via video conference) and ph...
Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students
Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.
Trinity Pre-Orientation Cyclists Stop by to Chat
Ken Krayeske and Joe Barber invited me to ride with the Trinity Pre-Orientation cyclists this year, but those plans fell apart when I injured my hand earlier...
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
Reliable Wifi Comes to my Corner of McCook
Thank you Trinity IT network crew!
Color and Money First-Year Seminar with Jasmine Gentry
First-Year Seminar Mentor Jasmine Gentry ‘17 leads our class in our Admissions simulation
Web Writing book published by U of Michigan Press
My co-editor Tennyson O’Donnell and I are proud to announce the publication of our open-access volume, Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and...
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
Pathways to Teaching discussion with recent Trinity Alumni on Tuesday, Oct 22nd at 6:30pm in Rittenberg Lounge
Come listen and learn from recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 from 6:30-7:30pm in Rittenberg Lou...
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Video on Individualized Degree Program (IDP) for Adult Learning
During my past decade at Trinity, several highly-motivated adult students have enrolled in my undergraduate classes through the IDP program, which raised the...
How (and why) to evaluate student writing as blind-review
At our small liberal arts college, whenever my students are working on a writing assignment on the same theme, I ask them to submit it in blind-review format...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity Alumni, Tues Oct 23rd, 2012
Join us as we speak with recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 7-8pm in Seabury S205. Guests w...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...
Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd
**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
scholarship
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
Advice on Open Access Book Publishing
A friend of mine who works at another Hartford-area academic institution asked me for advice about open-access book publishing. Here’s what I told them:
Student Coauthors and Collaborative Scholarship
A colleague recently asked me how I decide whether to add students as co-authors of a scholarly publication. This topic matters a great deal across academia,...
AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?
Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...
Friendly advice for your history panel presentation
As another round of academic conferences approaches on my spring calendar, I’m updating my friendly advice for panelists who invited me to serve as their com...
Finding My 1999 Final Report: Metropolitan Milwaukee and Federal Educational Policy, 1945-present
My friend Sherman Dorn saw a reference to an unpublished report I wrote two decades ago, and asked me to send him a copy. Although I haven’t even thought abo...
Writing Race and Education History on the Web
Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...
Friendly advice for your history conference panel
As summer ends, the fall academic conference season begins. This time of year I find myself writing the same email to panelists for whom I’ve been assigned t...
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age discussion at Wesleyan University
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
Web Writing book published by U of Michigan Press
My co-editor Tennyson O’Donnell and I are proud to announce the publication of our open-access volume, Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and...
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
Now online: 1,582 pages from FBI on Black Panther Party in Connecticut, courtesy of the National Archives
Image from Center for Contemporary Culture, Hartford Public Library
Writing History in the Digital Age published in print (for sale) and online (free)
The University of Michigan Press shared this announcement today:
Finishing up one book while launching another
This is not an example of good timing, but I’m learning that there are some things over which we have no control. Over the past few days, eagle-eyed co-edito...
Questions for Maize Books at University of Michigan Press
Maize photo: Wikimedia/Sam Fentress
Presentation for EPS 2013 Conference at UW-Madison
Michael Fultz, my grad school advisor.
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Four Publishing Models for Peer-Reviewed Digital Monographs
Sarah Manekin invited me and others to contribute to a workshop on “Researching, Writing and Publishing History in the Digital Age” for graduate students in ...
Writing History and Open Access Week
Yesterday afternoon, co-editor Kristen Nawrotzki and I, along with over thirty contributors, heard that the University of Michigan Press approved publication...
Anvil, Authors, and Some (Un)Answered Questions
Today marked the web launch of Anvil Academic, which promises to reinvent the role of the publisher by raising the visibility of peer-reviewed digital humani...
WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012
(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd
**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:
technology
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?
Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...
NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map
The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...
Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll remote-theme and GitHub Pages
Earlier this year I took the plunge, and migrated my personal website from the Trinity College WordPress platform http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty t...
Updated: How to Digitally Record and Transcribe an Interview
One of my most popular posts, originally published in November 2013, and updated October 2019:
Updated: How to Customize YouCanBook.me for Appointment Slots
One of the most popular posts that I originally wrote in December 2012 was the tutorial below on customizing the YouCanBook.me calendar service to display ap...
Teaching How to Avoid Plagiarism
Tennyson O’Donnell, Director of Trinity’s Writing Center, asked several of us to join him this semester on ways to address plagiarism with “less policing and...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Writing Race and Education History on the Web
Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
Reliable Wifi Comes to my Corner of McCook
Thank you Trinity IT network crew!
How the CT Mirror hackathon taught me to be a student again
The clock had run out. At 2:30pm, our team was supposed to be heading to the downstairs auditorium to present our digital product to the panel of judges, but...
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
Writing History in the Digital Age published in print (for sale) and online (free)
The University of Michigan Press shared this announcement today:
Final Reflections from One Week One Tool: The Blur of Days 4-5
Believe me, there was intent to blog about One Week | One Tool each day, but the last two blurred together in my mind. As we approached the public launch fin...
Metaphorical learning moments at One Week One Tool, Day 3
Exasperated team member Amrys Williams, OWOT Day 3, by Brian Croxall
My Peggy Olson learning moment at One Week One Tool, Day 2
Peggy Olson from “Mad Men” (via WikiMedia)
Learning Moments at One Week One Tool 2013, Day 1
This week I’m one of twelve participants at One Week One Tool, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute hosted by the Center for History and ...
How (and why) to evaluate student writing as blind-review
At our small liberal arts college, whenever my students are working on a writing assignment on the same theme, I ask them to submit it in blind-review format...
WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012
(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...
Educational Studies
Thank You Lisa Smulyan
A thank-you letter to Lisa Smulyan, who taught me as an undergraduate in the Education Program at Swarthmore College, in celebration of her retirement.
Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students
When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...
Teaching Interviewing with Annette Lareau, Listening to People
While teaching undergraduates over the past twenty years, I’ve relied heavily on the work of sociologist Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods, to hel...
Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students
This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...
AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?
Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...
Teaching Race and Education in the Archives
When I first began to teach educational history in the early 1990s, as a TA for Carl Kaestle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught me the value o...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity students and alumni, Wed Oct 5th, 2016
[](http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/files/2016/09/Pathways-2016-virtual-physical-panel-e1475718108343.jpg)Both virtual (via video conference) and ph...
Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students
Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
Pathways to Teaching discussion with recent Trinity Alumni on Tuesday, Oct 22nd at 6:30pm in Rittenberg Lounge
Come listen and learn from recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 from 6:30-7:30pm in Rittenberg Lou...
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Video on Individualized Degree Program (IDP) for Adult Learning
During my past decade at Trinity, several highly-motivated adult students have enrolled in my undergraduate classes through the IDP program, which raised the...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity Alumni, Tues Oct 23rd, 2012
Join us as we speak with recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 7-8pm in Seabury S205. Guests w...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
history
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map
The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...
Friendly advice for your history panel presentation
As another round of academic conferences approaches on my spring calendar, I’m updating my friendly advice for panelists who invited me to serve as their com...
Teaching Race and Education in the Archives
When I first began to teach educational history in the early 1990s, as a TA for Carl Kaestle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught me the value o...
Finding My 1999 Final Report: Metropolitan Milwaukee and Federal Educational Policy, 1945-present
My friend Sherman Dorn saw a reference to an unpublished report I wrote two decades ago, and asked me to send him a copy. Although I haven’t even thought abo...
Tonight’s Educ 300 Class: Past and Present Activism on Anti-Immigration Policies
Dear students in Educ 300: Educ Reform Past & Present
Writing Race and Education History on the Web
Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...
Friendly advice for your history conference panel
As summer ends, the fall academic conference season begins. This time of year I find myself writing the same email to panelists for whom I’ve been assigned t...
Writing Educational History in the Digital Age at AERA 2015
This morning I’m pleased to join historians Ansley Erickson and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on “Writing Educational History in the Digital Age: Crafting Your Re...
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
Now online: 1,582 pages from FBI on Black Panther Party in Connecticut, courtesy of the National Archives
Image from Center for Contemporary Culture, Hartford Public Library
Writing History in the Digital Age published in print (for sale) and online (free)
The University of Michigan Press shared this announcement today:
Finishing up one book while launching another
This is not an example of good timing, but I’m learning that there are some things over which we have no control. Over the past few days, eagle-eyed co-edito...
Presentation for EPS 2013 Conference at UW-Madison
Michael Fultz, my grad school advisor.
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Four Publishing Models for Peer-Reviewed Digital Monographs
Sarah Manekin invited me and others to contribute to a workshop on “Researching, Writing and Publishing History in the Digital Age” for graduate students in ...
Writing History and Open Access Week
Yesterday afternoon, co-editor Kristen Nawrotzki and I, along with over thirty contributors, heard that the University of Michigan Press approved publication...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
web writing
Advice on Open Access Book Publishing
A friend of mine who works at another Hartford-area academic institution asked me for advice about open-access book publishing. Here’s what I told them:
Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll remote-theme and GitHub Pages
Earlier this year I took the plunge, and migrated my personal website from the Trinity College WordPress platform http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty t...
Teaching How to Avoid Plagiarism
Tennyson O’Donnell, Director of Trinity’s Writing Center, asked several of us to join him this semester on ways to address plagiarism with “less policing and...
Writing Race and Education History on the Web
Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age discussion at Wesleyan University
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
Writing Educational History in the Digital Age at AERA 2015
This morning I’m pleased to join historians Ansley Erickson and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on “Writing Educational History in the Digital Age: Crafting Your Re...
Web Writing book published by U of Michigan Press
My co-editor Tennyson O’Donnell and I are proud to announce the publication of our open-access volume, Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and...
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
Writing History in the Digital Age published in print (for sale) and online (free)
The University of Michigan Press shared this announcement today:
Finishing up one book while launching another
This is not an example of good timing, but I’m learning that there are some things over which we have no control. Over the past few days, eagle-eyed co-edito...
Questions for Maize Books at University of Michigan Press
Maize photo: Wikimedia/Sam Fentress
Four Publishing Models for Peer-Reviewed Digital Monographs
Sarah Manekin invited me and others to contribute to a workshop on “Researching, Writing and Publishing History in the Digital Age” for graduate students in ...
Writing History and Open Access Week
Yesterday afternoon, co-editor Kristen Nawrotzki and I, along with over thirty contributors, heard that the University of Michigan Press approved publication...
How (and why) to evaluate student writing as blind-review
At our small liberal arts college, whenever my students are working on a writing assignment on the same theme, I ask them to submit it in blind-review format...
Anvil, Authors, and Some (Un)Answered Questions
Today marked the web launch of Anvil Academic, which promises to reinvent the role of the publisher by raising the visibility of peer-reviewed digital humani...
WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012
(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...
Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd
**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:
Hartford
Advice on Open Access Book Publishing
A friend of mine who works at another Hartford-area academic institution asked me for advice about open-access book publishing. Here’s what I told them:
Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students
When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...
Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students
This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...
NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map
The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...
Your Dean Favors ‘Experiential Liberal Arts’: Now What?
This op-ed essay by Jack Dougherty and Megan Faver Hartline was published online by the Campus Compact of Southern New England (CCSNE) on January 28, 2019 at...
Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students
Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.
Trinity Pre-Orientation Cyclists Stop by to Chat
Ken Krayeske and Joe Barber invited me to ride with the Trinity Pre-Orientation cyclists this year, but those plans fell apart when I injured my hand earlier...
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
How the CT Mirror hackathon taught me to be a student again
The clock had run out. At 2:30pm, our team was supposed to be heading to the downstairs auditorium to present our digital product to the panel of judges, but...
Now online: 1,582 pages from FBI on Black Panther Party in Connecticut, courtesy of the National Archives
Image from Center for Contemporary Culture, Hartford Public Library
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...
Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd
**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
presentation
AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?
Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...
NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map
The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...
Friendly advice for your history panel presentation
As another round of academic conferences approaches on my spring calendar, I’m updating my friendly advice for panelists who invited me to serve as their com...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Writing Race and Education History on the Web
Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...
Friendly advice for your history conference panel
As summer ends, the fall academic conference season begins. This time of year I find myself writing the same email to panelists for whom I’ve been assigned t...
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age discussion at Wesleyan University
Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
Writing Educational History in the Digital Age at AERA 2015
This morning I’m pleased to join historians Ansley Erickson and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on “Writing Educational History in the Digital Age: Crafting Your Re...
Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age
prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)
Presentation for EPS 2013 Conference at UW-Madison
Michael Fultz, my grad school advisor.
Four Publishing Models for Peer-Reviewed Digital Monographs
Sarah Manekin invited me and others to contribute to a workshop on “Researching, Writing and Publishing History in the Digital Age” for graduate students in ...
WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012
(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd
**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:
community engagement
Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students
When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...
Teaching Interviewing with Annette Lareau, Listening to People
While teaching undergraduates over the past twenty years, I’ve relied heavily on the work of sociologist Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods, to hel...
Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students
This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...
Your Dean Favors ‘Experiential Liberal Arts’: Now What?
This op-ed essay by Jack Dougherty and Megan Faver Hartline was published online by the Campus Compact of Southern New England (CCSNE) on January 28, 2019 at...
Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students
Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.
Trinity Pre-Orientation Cyclists Stop by to Chat
Ken Krayeske and Joe Barber invited me to ride with the Trinity Pre-Orientation cyclists this year, but those plans fell apart when I injured my hand earlier...
Now online: 1,582 pages from FBI on Black Panther Party in Connecticut, courtesy of the National Archives
Image from Center for Contemporary Culture, Hartford Public Library
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
advising
Let’s Acknowledge that Today is Not a Normal Day
Here’s note I sent my Trinity College students before class on Wednesday Nov 6th 2024, the day after the US Presidential Election.
Thank You Lisa Smulyan
A thank-you letter to Lisa Smulyan, who taught me as an undergraduate in the Education Program at Swarthmore College, in celebration of her retirement.
My Response to Miss Manners on Professors and First Names
This morning I happened to see a Washington Post headline by advice columnist Miss Manners that caught my attention:
Student Coauthors and Collaborative Scholarship
A colleague recently asked me how I decide whether to add students as co-authors of a scholarly publication. This topic matters a great deal across academia,...
Updated: How to Customize YouCanBook.me for Appointment Slots
One of the most popular posts that I originally wrote in December 2012 was the tutorial below on customizing the YouCanBook.me calendar service to display ap...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity students and alumni, Wed Oct 5th, 2016
[](http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/files/2016/09/Pathways-2016-virtual-physical-panel-e1475718108343.jpg)Both virtual (via video conference) and ph...
Pathways to Teaching discussion with recent Trinity Alumni on Tuesday, Oct 22nd at 6:30pm in Rittenberg Lounge
Come listen and learn from recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 from 6:30-7:30pm in Rittenberg Lou...
Video on Individualized Degree Program (IDP) for Adult Learning
During my past decade at Trinity, several highly-motivated adult students have enrolled in my undergraduate classes through the IDP program, which raised the...
Pathways to Teaching with Trinity Alumni, Tues Oct 23rd, 2012
Join us as we speak with recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 7-8pm in Seabury S205. Guests w...
Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...
“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011
Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...
policy
Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)
Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...
Finding My 1999 Final Report: Metropolitan Milwaukee and Federal Educational Policy, 1945-present
My friend Sherman Dorn saw a reference to an unpublished report I wrote two decades ago, and asked me to send him a copy. Although I haven’t even thought abo...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Tonight’s Educ 300 Class: Past and Present Activism on Anti-Immigration Policies
Dear students in Educ 300: Educ Reform Past & Present
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
Presentation for EPS 2013 Conference at UW-Madison
Michael Fultz, my grad school advisor.
New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol
Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N
Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays
After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...
Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan
Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner
data visualization
AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?
Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...
NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map
The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...
Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX
This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...
Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data
Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document
How the CT Mirror hackathon taught me to be a student again
The clock had run out. At 2:30pm, our team was supposed to be heading to the downstairs auditorium to present our digital product to the panel of judges, but...
CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...
One Week One Tool
Final Reflections from One Week One Tool: The Blur of Days 4-5
Believe me, there was intent to blog about One Week | One Tool each day, but the last two blurred together in my mind. As we approached the public launch fin...
Metaphorical learning moments at One Week One Tool, Day 3
Exasperated team member Amrys Williams, OWOT Day 3, by Brian Croxall
My Peggy Olson learning moment at One Week One Tool, Day 2
Peggy Olson from “Mad Men” (via WikiMedia)
Learning Moments at One Week One Tool 2013, Day 1
This week I’m one of twelve participants at One Week One Tool, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute hosted by the Center for History and ...
tutorial
Updated: How to Digitally Record and Transcribe an Interview
One of my most popular posts, originally published in November 2013, and updated October 2019:
Updated: How to Customize YouCanBook.me for Appointment Slots
One of the most popular posts that I originally wrote in December 2012 was the tutorial below on customizing the YouCanBook.me calendar service to display ap...