Event Details

End: July 23, 2020
Contact: mconnor@historians.org
More Info: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/online-teaching-resources/aha-online-teaching-forum

July 23, 2020 at 1:00PM ET - Middle Ages for Educators: Online Resources and Strategies for Teaching the Pre-Modern with Merle Eisenberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) University of Maryland, Sara McDougall, Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC.

Middle Ages for Educators, or MAFE (middleagesforeducators.com) was launched in early April 2020 in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic that shut down face-to-face classroom instruction across the globe. It builds upon the wealth of medieval studies materials already online but often hidden away in obscure places. In addition to introducing these resources to its users, MAFE offers new videos and digital tools with accompanying lesson plans that instructors can use to build upon or to supplement class assignments. 

This interactive webinar will inform participants of the site's contents, challenge participants to recognize the varying pedagogical strategies and tools the site presents to engage instructors and students in computer-enabled learning about the pre-modern world, and invite participants to interact with site creators so the site can respond to what participants need to effectively teach pre-modern materials in future digital or hybrid contexts. Learn more here.