This spring, Online G3 is proud to be able to run our very first Case Method workshop: Madison and Hamilton Make Their Cases – A Workshop on Constitutional Quandaries. You might be wondering, however, what exactly IS the Case Method? Why is Online G3 using the Case Method? If you follow the goings on at…
It is probably obvious that I am a huge fan of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories books. After all, as of the writing of this blog, I teach four different classes and workshops making use of various books from the author’s series. You might be wondering why. After all, Terry Deary is famously not a historian….
By every metric that we are able to track, our trial runs of Biology, Beavers, and Bees, Oh My!, have been a huge success. Students love the material, the webinars are engaging, and the narrative approach works. There was one little issue though: I jam-packed the course with too much stuff. The class as I…
Carl Sagan is famous for saying of science education in America: “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.” Once upon a time, I was one of those kids that trickled through the…
I’ve been struggling to find time to review a set of old history books and biographies for this blog for a while but this became top-of-mind again as I work on a new self-paced course, coming soon, so here we are: a review of a deeply relevant, and substantial work of history by the guy…
Sometimes while introducing an event or moment in history, I’ll throw out a quick book recommendation to students who might want to dig into the day’s topic after the webinar is over. Most commonly, because I have several classes that touch on the topic of World War One (Horrible Great War, as one example, but…
Memoir ‘44, released to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004, is a strategy board game with deceptively simple movement and combat rules. It comes with just three general types of combat units (infantry, tanks, and artillery) to represent the armed might of the Axis and Allies. But it’s the way that these simple…
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