Welcome to LEAD 101 Learners as Travelers,…

In September 1786, German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe had enough: After many years of fantasizing about the famed locations of classical Italy, he boarded a carriage and, under the dark of night and the guise of a false identity, headed south to see the attractions up close. What was initially planned as a brief escape from… Read more »

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  • Protected: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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  • Protected: Working with Digital Technology

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  • Why we do the Story Map Journal…

    Here are the slides from this presentation compiled into a video:

  • Working on the Story Map Journal

    This post assembles copies of the handouts I have distributed in class during the last couple of meetings: Description of the Story Map Journal Process Group process checklist Mapping manual

  • Pompeii–What we can see that Goethe didn’t

    Since we’ve read about Goethe’s visit to Pompeii as well as his visit to the active Volcano, Vesuvius, here’s a current article from the NYT about preservation efforts at the site. Consider what has changed (science), what has remained the same (human curiosity in the past and in natural catastrophies…).

  • Homework Thursday, Sep 24

    As you prepare for your presentations next week, we will read one secondary text about Italian travelers and conduct an exemplary class discussion on Thursday. This will model to you what it means to critically engage with a text, to focus on argument and evidence, and to link a secondary text with primary material. The… Read more »

  • Travelers, Migrants, Refugees

    In this course we have so far followed the experiences of a rather privileged traveler, a white, highly-educated male whose main fear was that his pseudonym might be uncovered. As we engage with what he saw, how he evaluated the sites, attractions, and people, it’s easy to forget that traveling is always connected with borders… Read more »

  • Reflections on what we have learned so far

    Thanks for sharing some of your thoughts last class. You offered some pretty good takes on what we have done and also challenging questions. I addressed some in class and would like to address another one here. With regard to what we will be doing “after Goethe” keep in mind that all of our activities will… Read more »

  • Protected: “And then I met Goethe, a strange German traveler…

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  • LEAD 101 Project Overview

    How do individual steps and phases fit into the overall trajectory of our course? Take a look at the slides I presented in class today:   Lead101 project overview from GuGra

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