Eric Zuelow quoted in American Heritage magazine on using iPhones for teaching history

Eric Zuelow, assistant professor of history, was quoted in an article by filmmaker Eric Stange in the Spring 2010 issue of American Heritage magazine. The article titled "The portable past: hist-ineers, terra-tives and mobi-sodes: Get ready for the brave new worm of history on the really small screen" looks at teaching history through iPhones and other smart phones. Stange, who produced the documentary film "A Murder at Harvard," which was broadcast on PBS's American Experience series in 2003, visited 91AV in fall 2009. At the time he was working with a software developer to turn the film into an iPhone app. He invited Zuelow and some of his students (Chris Butler and Kim Hoffman) to travel to Boston to test a new application. Zuelow and the students took the tour and then took part in a focus group about the merits of the application. Zuelow say in the article that "cell-phone technology potentially makes it possible to utilize a medium that students understand. The real challenge here is figuring out how to transform a 'viewer' into a 'critically engaged student.'"

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