After spending years thinking about how to adapt what I do (teach History) in a way that can fit with the world that the Digital Revolution has created, I think I have finally achieved success.
For the first time I am teaching a course on Southeast Asian history and Web Design.
In the past few years, new “no code” “page builder” applications have emerged that enable us to create web pages by simply “dragging and dropping” items onto a blank web page. While that makes it very easy to create web pages, one still needs to know all of the fundamental knowledge about visual communication (layout, typography, color theory) and about online communication (writing for SEO).
The course I am teaching is about World War II in Southeast Asia. In the course there are lectures about the topic. Students read, research and write abut the topic. And they then each design and create a website to present their writings (following step-by-step guidelines that I provide).
This is a type of course that has only become possible in the last couple of years or so, with the emergence of drag and drop page builder applications. The ease with which we can now create web pages, however, opens up a lot of great new possibilities for the History profession.
In the video below I explain more.
