Welcome to H-TEACH!

Welcome to H-Teach

You have joined H-Teach, an international electronic discussion group run by H-Net, Humanities On-Line, to provide a forum discussing teaching history and related fields at the college level. Subscription is free, and subscribers will automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. It is like a daily newsletter or an ongoing, moderated "roundtable" discussion.

The primary purpose of H-Teach is to enable communication about teaching approaches, methods, problems, and resources. H-Teach facilitates discussion on the wide range of policy issues involved in teaching history. H-Teach is particularly interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings. Special attention is paid to use of new technologies in and outside of the classroom. H-Teach also provides a forum for exchange of information about specific teaching tools including texts, videos, exams, and assignments.

H-Teach maintains a homepage, a searchable archive of postings and other useful resources for humanities teachers on the world wide web at www.h-net.org/~teach.

H-Teach is co-edited by Professor Sara Tucker of Washburn University (hteach@acc.wuacc.edu or zztuck@acc.wuacc.edu), Professor Bob Wheeler of Cleveland State University (hteach@math3.math.csuohio.edu) and Professor Kelly A. Woestman of Pittsburg State (kwoestma@clandjop.com). H-Teach has an editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship.

1. H-TEACH FEATURES DIALOGUES IN THE DISCIPLINE:

H-Teach publishes syllabi, outlines, handouts, bibliographies, guides to term papers, listings of new sources, library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, data sets and cd-roms. H-Teach also posts announcements of conferences, fellowships, and jobs. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports. H-Teach carries announcements from publishers of new books, and commissions book reviews. H-Teach actively seeks participation by textbook publishers, whose editors can join with text authors to shape the next edition of the textbook teachers will be using.

2. CONTRIBUTIONS TO H-TEACH:

Contributions can be short questions or long documents. Please sign your name and email address to each contribution (we will add the name/address otherwise.) To send them, use one of the following:
a) Send an email note directly to H-TEACH@H-NET.MSU.EDU b) After reading a message from H-Teach, you may use the reply command in your mail system. PLEASE NOTE all replies will go out as submissions to the list as a whole, NOT as personal replies to the individual poster whose message you are reading

If you use a word processor like Word Perfect or Microsoft Word, save the document as a plain ascii (or "text" or "dos") file. Upload it to your mainframe (your departmental guru will explain how) and use your e-mail system to send it to H-Teach. Please do NOT send binary files or uunencoded Macintosh files.

3. A MODERATED LIST

H-Teach is moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like requests for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-Teach. They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the moderators they do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The editor will not alter the meaning of a message, but will, if necessary, add name and e-address, break very long paragraphs into smaller units, correct typos, and modify the subject line of a post.

The mailing addresses of the moderators are:

Sara Tucker FAX: 913-231-1084
Department of History PHONE: 913-231-1010 x1319 Washburn University
Topeka, Kansas 66621

Bob Wheeler FAX: 216 687 9201
Department of History PHONE: 216 687 3513 CB2050
Cleveland State University
Euclid and 24th
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

or
Kelly A. Woestman FAX: 316-232-7515
Department of History PHONE: 316-235-4316 Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS 66762

4. TO SUBSCRIBE TO H-TEACH:

Send this email message via the INTERNET to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu

sub H-Teach firstname surname, school

where you put your own first name, last name, and the name of your school in the place of "firstname", "surname", and "school", e.g., H-Teach Leslie Jones, Southern Jersey U.

H-Teach is supported by H-Net, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The University of Illinois, Chicago, Michigan State University, and a team of volunteers. There currently are no dues or fees of any kind. Subscribers only need an address on Bitnet or Internet, which is provided to faculty and students by campus computer centers. The consultants there, or departmental colleagues can explain how to send an email message.

Several Additional Commands will help you manage your mail. a) To unsubscribe, send this message to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu UNSUB H-TEACH
Please unsubscribe from H-Teach and all other mailing lists if you are terminating a particular computer account.
b) If you prefer to receive one daily digest of all posts to H-Teach instead of various individual posts, you can do so by sending this to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu SET H-TEACH DIGEST
To return to individual messages, send LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu the following message.
SET H-TEACH NODIGEST
c) If you are away from campus for the summer, put a "hold" on H-Teach email by sending this to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu SET H-TEACH NOMAIL
d) After vacation, you can resume by sending to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu SET H-TEACH MAIL
e) Note that mail designed for everyone to read is sent to H-TEACH@h-net.msu.edu, while commands are sent to the LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu. Mail to the moderator goes to zztuck@acc.wuacc.edu or rwheeler@math3.math.csuohio.edu. f) Commercial email operations like CompuServe and America On Line all have Internet connections and can be used as your mailbox.

5. H-TEACH WWW AND GOPHER CONNECTION:

Documents of interest--bibliographies, book and article reviews, announcements, teaching materials, and descriptions of tools, techniques, and computer software and hardware, plus the weekly files of messages--will be made available on the H-Teach web page. Contributions
to the archive are welcome, and should be sent as files to H-TEACH@H-NET.MSU.EDU.

To browse the available documents, set your browser to

www.h-net.org/~teach

6. H-TEACH EDITORIAL BOARD

1. David Bailey, Michigan State University: dtb@hs1.hst.msu.edu. 2. Henry Berger, Washington Unviersity: hwberbger@artsci.wustl.edu. 3. D'Ann Campbell, Austin Peay State College:CAMPBELLD@APSU02.APSU.EDU 4. Norm Coombs,nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu 5. Robert Entenmann, St. Olaf College: entenman@stolaf.edu 6. Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago: c-fasolt@uchicago.edu. 7. Alan Fisher, Michigan State Univiersity: alan@ah2.cal.msu.edu. 8. Sally Griffith, Villanova University: sgriffith@ucis.vill.edu. 9. Matthew Hermann, San Ramon Valley High: mhermann@ix.netcom.com. 10. Peter Holloran, Pine Manor College: pch@world.std.com 11. Kirk Jeffrey, Carleton College: kjeffrey@carleton.edu. 12. Jacquelyn Kent, SUNY at Courtland: jkent@h-net.msu.edu 13. Mark Kornbluh, Michigan State University: mark@hs1.hst.msu.edu 14. Donald Mabry, Mississippi State University: djm1@ra.msstate.edu. 15. Steven Mintz, University of Houston: hist3@jetson.uh.edu. 16. Susan Mulley, University of Guelph: smulley@uoguelph.ca. 17. Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas: lhnelson@ukanvm.bitnet. 18. Jan Reiff, UCLA: reiff@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu. 19 Tony Rhinelander, St Thomas University: rhine@academic.stu.stthomasu.ca. 20. Don Spaeth, University of Glasgow: gkha13@cms.glasgow.ac.uk. 21. Sara Tucker, Washburn University: zztuck@acc.wuacc.edu 22. Paul Turnbull, James Cook University of North Queensland: hipgt@marlin.jcu.edu.au 23. Bob Wheeler, Cleveland State University: hteach@math3.math.csuohio.edu

7. H-NET: HUMANITIES ON-LINE

H-Net is a an international initiative to assist humanists to go on-line, using their personal computers. H-Net is operated on a voluntary basis by over hundreds of scholars, principally in the United States, but also in many other countries. H-Net has financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities of the U.S., and is hosted by Michigan State University.

For more information about H-Net:

On the World Wide Web: www.h-net.org
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