Well, Friday (April 25) was the last day for timeline posts in class this semester. The 19th-century students are to incorporate a contextual element in their final projects, but otherwise, the teaching part of the timeline beta test is pretty well complete for Spring 2008.
The 19th-century course generated 130 posts for 10 assignments, including those that I posted myself. The cinema course, with 17 students and only 4 assignments, generated 102 posts. Here’s a shot of the wall for 19th century, with its 130 bits of paper.
I will be presenting my experiences and results to interested faculty here at Whitman tomorrow at noon. I’ll be blogging about that, and about my plans for the next round of testing. We also have a presentation at Pomona on May 22, and at UPS on June 12.
