Gretchen McCullough is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. Her stories, reviews and essays have appeared in: The Literary Review, The Common, The Barcelona Review, NPR, Storysouth and Guernica. Translations in English and Arabic with Mohamed Metwalli have been published in: Banipal, Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today, Nizwa, and Exchanges. Three Stories in Cairo, a bilingual book of short stories, (2011) and a second collection, Shahrazad's Tooth (2013) were published by Afaq Publishers in Cairo.
Gretchen McCullough
Digital Timeline for History class
I got a good overview of ways in which AUC faculty are innovating and incorporating different technology into their classroom-based and online courses. I also took note of several websites or programs that I would like to explore in future, such as the time line described by Gretchen McCollough and the Smarter Every Day You Tube vlog mentioned by the keynote speaker. - Carol Clark
Gretchen McCullough will discuss how she used a digital timeline in a Core WWII History course to motivate students to research topics they were interested in; for example, Mengele’s scientific experiments in Auschwitz. Students, presented their work to the class using this contemporary format as a means of informing and engaging peers.
Students were asked to create a course project using the online tool: TimelineJS. This particular application of digital pedagogy is ideal for contemporary learners who are motivated by visual media. This Timeline JS project was assigned in place of a PowerPoint presentation for History:1099, Hidden Stories of WWII, a core history course.
The timeline fit nicely with the course because it spanned different themes and fronts of the war. McCullough will showcase the Timeline and assignment documents and discuss how students used the tool. Her learners were extremely enthusiastic about the assignment in part because they were allowed to choose their own topics for their projects The tool also sparked extensive discussion in the classroom. A model timeline and sample of student work will be shared with the audience.
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