In 2019 I served as a Pedagogical Fellow for UC Irvine’s Division of Teaching Excellence. Here are some of my favorite teaching resources:  

General Pedagogy:

• Teaching in Higher Ed podcast for helpful conversations about all facets of teaching

• How to teach with Google Docs from Inside Higher Ed

• Kahoot! for fun classroom review games and quizzes

• Dotstorming for group brainstorms and polls

• Mentimeter for live classroom polling

• Piazza for anonymous Q&A

• Rewordify to help with difficult vocabulary

• Decoding the Disciplines model to teach discipline-specific skills

• UC Guide on promoting student mental health

• Syllabus generator

• “A Pedagogy of Kindness” by Catherine Denial for Hybrid Pedagogy

History-Specific Resources:

• Building the American Republic open-source textbook

• The American Yawp open-source textbook

• Docs Teach history primary sources and lessons from The National Archives

• DPLA American primary source sets

• Harvard ablconnect for active learning classroom activities

• NPR “American Anthems” series

• Stanford History Education Group primary sources and lessons

• Brandeis Library’s digital collection of WWI propaganda posters

• National Archive’s digital collection of primary sources from the 1918 influenza epidemic

• The National Council on Public History’s Digital Public History Directory

• The Geospatial Historian GIS training resources for historians & historical research

• The Programming Historian coding resources for historians

Food History & Food Studies Resources:

• What America Ate for resources on American foodways during the Great Depression

• Video documenting the contributions of Greek Americans to the spread of diners

• Podcast discussion on indigenous North American foodways

• Podcast on the contributions of Cambodian Americans to the doughnut industry

• Docs Teach food history resources

• Blog posts on teaching with historical recipes from The Recipes Project

• Poetry and Food Collection from the Poetry Foundation

• Historic cookbooks + more in Hathi Trust’s food studies collection

• Feeding America American cookbook collection by Michigan State University

• USDA Special Collections digital archive

• Consumer Time digital radio transcripts at the National Agricultural Library

• Housekeepers’ Chat digital radio transcripts at the National Agricultural Library

• Consumers’ Guide digital archive via Hathi Trust