Spring Break
NT to host digital workshop for educators
Workshop gives knowledge of Chinese society
Courtney Roberts
Issue date: 11/27/07 Section: NEWS
Beginning in January 2008, NT will host "New Perspectives on Early Modern China," a digital workshop that will help educators incorporate topics of economic, political and cultural achievements in 17th through 20th century China into their teaching curriculum.
The workshop is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Initiative of 2007, an independent federal agency aimed at supporting projects that foster the growth of digital humanities in conducting research and enhancing an understanding of topics or issues, according to the endowment's Digital Humanities Initiative Web site.
"The idea is to give K-12 educators the knowledge and resources to understand how relevant China is to contemporary society," said Harold Tanner of the history faculty and director of the workshop.
Tanner said NT was chosen as the only Texas university and one of three U.S. universities to participate, in part, due to his involvement with the teacher outreach department.
"Every year, the department of history at NT does a history outreach program that I've been involved with, in addition to offering regular workshops on East Asia," he said.
NT, as well as Columbia University in New York and the University of Florida in Gainesville will introduce two new multimedia modules, "Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tours of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors" and "China and Europe: 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is 'Modern'?" to explore the history of late imperial China and its relation to the West.
"Twenty-four educators will be chosen to participate in the workshop at NT and they will be divided into six groups that will develop lesson plans for their classroom," said Denece Gerlach, event specialist for history conferences and lectures at NT's department of history. "It will be geared toward secondary instruction and integrating anything related to East Asia into their curriculum."
Participants also will receive a $350 stipend for attending all sessions of the workshop, according to the Web site.
Tanner said participants at each site will interact via videoconference with the other two host sites and the workshop's guest lecturers, which include Maxwell Hearn, the Douglas Dillon curator of Chinese painting and calligraphy at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Madeleine Zelin, dean lung professor of Chinese studies at Columbia University.
"It will be interesting because the participants will get to actually see the lecturer through a monitor and ask them questions," Tanner said. "We'll also get to observe people from the other universities ask their questions as well."
"New Perspectives on Early Modern China" will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 12, Jan. 26, Feb. 9, March 1 and March 29, at the NT campus.
For any questions about the workshop or the application process, contact Denece Gerlach at 940-565-2288.
The workshop is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Initiative of 2007, an independent federal agency aimed at supporting projects that foster the growth of digital humanities in conducting research and enhancing an understanding of topics or issues, according to the endowment's Digital Humanities Initiative Web site.
"The idea is to give K-12 educators the knowledge and resources to understand how relevant China is to contemporary society," said Harold Tanner of the history faculty and director of the workshop.
Tanner said NT was chosen as the only Texas university and one of three U.S. universities to participate, in part, due to his involvement with the teacher outreach department.
"Every year, the department of history at NT does a history outreach program that I've been involved with, in addition to offering regular workshops on East Asia," he said.
NT, as well as Columbia University in New York and the University of Florida in Gainesville will introduce two new multimedia modules, "Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tours of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors" and "China and Europe: 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is 'Modern'?" to explore the history of late imperial China and its relation to the West.
"Twenty-four educators will be chosen to participate in the workshop at NT and they will be divided into six groups that will develop lesson plans for their classroom," said Denece Gerlach, event specialist for history conferences and lectures at NT's department of history. "It will be geared toward secondary instruction and integrating anything related to East Asia into their curriculum."
Participants also will receive a $350 stipend for attending all sessions of the workshop, according to the Web site.
Tanner said participants at each site will interact via videoconference with the other two host sites and the workshop's guest lecturers, which include Maxwell Hearn, the Douglas Dillon curator of Chinese painting and calligraphy at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Madeleine Zelin, dean lung professor of Chinese studies at Columbia University.
"It will be interesting because the participants will get to actually see the lecturer through a monitor and ask them questions," Tanner said. "We'll also get to observe people from the other universities ask their questions as well."
"New Perspectives on Early Modern China" will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 12, Jan. 26, Feb. 9, March 1 and March 29, at the NT campus.
For any questions about the workshop or the application process, contact Denece Gerlach at 940-565-2288.
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