Announcements
- Walking tour on Monday? (DISCUSSION would be moved back 1 session)
- Discussion adjustments: extra credit to print out questions
Agenda
- Device time
- News item
- Announcements
- Primary research check-in + tips updates.
- Reminders: Informed Consent form, backup plan, using AI, copy me on all correspondence
- Coming soon: checklists for interviews and archival visits
- Midterm template and grade sheet template
- Device-free time
- Timed exercise
- Discussion with audio excerpt
ASSIGNMENT
You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.
- 1500 words (about 6 pages) due on Friday 10/23 at 5pm. At this time, I’ll download the Google Doc I shared with you. The doc is titled
[YOUR NAME] D&T 2026 Midterm or [YOUR NAME] D&T 2026 Midterm Template.
I will only accept work in these documents.- A late midterm will only be excused with proper documentation sent to Student Advocacy, an alert from Student Advocacy to me, and an email from you to me.
- NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
- READ and be prepared to discuss:
- Sewing machinery : being a practical manual of the sewing machine, comprising its history and details of its construction, with full technical directions for the adjusting of sewing machines (Urquhart, 1881). Please read Chapter 1, History and Description of the Sewing Machine.
- NYU Dentistry: Virtual Museum: History of Dentistry
- Teachers College @ Columbia U: Ethics and the IRB: The History of the Belmont Report
- REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
- Beloved up until “Stamp allowed that perch and catfish were jumping into the boat—didn’t even have to drop a line.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part05.mp3)
- Any/all previous assignments
- FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS leading the next session: email me the following by 1:30pm ET before the next class, as part of your discussion grade.
- your 2-3 minute audio excerpt
- 2-3 discussion questions on the Beloved and additional technology reading assignments