Multiple attendees from each campus are encouraged to attend these endeavors. Selected faculty are released from at least one course per semester and receive an annual stipend. This is a regular feature column for faculty members to share what they learned on their conference trips. Please contact the TLC Newsletter Editor if you have ideas to share . Present non-textual material on the World Wide Web helps students gain greater understanding of the classroom lecture.
Students can learn a lot by listening to history as well as reading it.
Visual presentations can be effectively developed using laptop computers, projectors, Powerpoint and Authorware 4 software. Resistance to technology in the classroom comes from the lack of financial resources and support form academic institutions. This was a theme recently presented at FSU's midterm conference as well. To that extent, I am requiring my students to download copies of original documents form the National Archives Record Administration, and the Library of Congress in conjunction with lecture topics throughout the semester. This conference helped to reinforce the fact that all historian's are not teachers but many work in government and in public history.