Mills Kelly with the Center for History and New Media will give a campuswide presentation entitled “Building a Better Yesterday, Bit by Bit or What hurricanes, communism and pirates can do for your teaching” at 10:30 a.m.-noon Tuesday, March 9, in the Union Big 12 Room. All K-Staters are welcome.
According to the hurricanearchive.org/about website, T. Mills Kelly is the executive producer of the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, associate director of the Center for History and New Media, and an assistant professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. He is the “principal investigator or co-director of three National Endowment for the Humanities exemplary education projects that provide digital resources to students and teachers of world and European history. In 2005, he received the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, the state’s highest honor for faculty excellence, and was the first recipient of this award in the category ‘Teaching with Technology.'”
For more information:
- Kelly’s faculty page: chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly
- Kelly’s Edwired blog: edwired.org
- Kelly is the principal investigator on an new NEH digital education grant about the fall of communism: chnm.gmu.edu/1989
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: hurricanearchive.org
