A symposium that will explore the cutting-edge digital tools and techniques for teaching humanities courses will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the Bloomberg Center's Schafler Auditorium, Homewood campus. Sponsored by the university's Center for Educational Resources, the event is open to all Baltimore-area humanities faculty.

The symposium, titled "Humanities Education in the Digital Age: Enriching Undergraduate Courses With the Web," will open with remarks by Michael Poliakoff, director of the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, who will also address current NEH priorities.

Resources such as electronic time lines, online image archiving, illustrated glossaries, peer review writing environments and interactive maps will be demonstrated, and free software tools, designed to be easily integrated into any courses, will be shared with participants.

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore all projects through digital poster sessions at a reception that will follow the symposium. Disciplines as diverse as history, film and media studies, art history, writing, museum studies and philosophy will be discussed.

For more information, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. To reserve a place, contact Cheryl Wagner at 410-516-7181 or [email protected].

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