Teaching and Learning Showcase

Last week saw the final of our pedagogy posts uploaded on to JVC Online and I would like to thank everyone who participated. As I start my own PGCert at Liverpool John Moores University it was great to be involved in this showcase and to reflect more broadly on the innovative ways in which we are teaching nineteenth century studies. Judging from Facebook comments/likes and the Twitter response, it has also been popular with you, our readers! Just in case

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Call for JVC Online Contributors

As part of our continual development of JVC Online, we are currently seeking to bring a few people on board as Contributors, and we invite applications to be part of this group. Contributors would be expected to post two blog entries per month: one “serious” piece that would relate to the author’s current research activities and teaching interests & one “fun” piece that would highlight popular culture connections to Victorian studies. These entries should be short (no longer than 500

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This week

It’s been a busy couple of days here at JVC online with Lisa and I attending the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) annual conference. It was also the first time that we had met in person. Accompanying this post is pictorial proof of our encounter (taken after 3 days of heavy conferencing!). Thanks to Jim Mussell and Amber Regis, we’re fortunate enough to have the conference Twitter feed for anyone interested in looking at what was about ‘Victorian Values’.

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This week at JVC Online

Today’s blog is written by the author T. D Grigg who considers the importance and perils of historical research when writing his novels. To coincide with this piece we will be offering his latest novel ‘Distant Thunder’ to anyone interested in reviewing it for JVC Online. Email Lucie if you are interested and the lucky person’s name will be drawn from a hat. You can email her at l.m.matthew-jones@ljmu.ac.uk. Tomorrow will see Matthew McCormack (University of Northampton) kick start our

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Teaching and Learning Showcase

Many of us often use the summer months to create new courses and revise existing ones for the new academic year. To facilitate this work and encourage productive conversations around the teaching of nineteenth-century culture, the Journal of Victorian Culture Online (JVC) will be hosting a Teaching and Learning Showcase to feature this work.  In August and September, we would like to showcase posts that explore the imaginative and innovative ways we teach Victorian studies. Blog topics could include: Digital

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All Things Blogging

We’ve been really excited by the level and range of blogs that formed May’s bloggers fair, which ended with Lucie being invited to chair the ‘Transforming Objects’ conference roundtable on this subject. A summary of the round table can be found here. We would like to thank everyone that participated and we hoped you enjoyed discovering what was out there! You can now download, through IFirst, two articles by Amber J. Regis (Early Career Victorianists and Social Media) and Rohan Maitzen (Scholarship 2.0) that also consider the way

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A Blog on Blogging: Reflecting on the ‘Transforming Objects’ Roundtable

I was recently invited by Nicole Bush (Northumbria) to chair a roundtable discussion at the ‘Transforming Objects’ conference on ‘Single- and Multi-Authored Blogging Models’ (28-29 May 2012). The speakers were Martin Paul Eve (Sussex), Kieran Fenby-Hulse (Bradford), Charlotte Mathieson (Warwick) and James Mussell (Birmingham). I must admit, I felt both honoured and daunted to be chairing the session. The participants are seasoned bloggers and very experienced in using a variety of blogging models. Some of them, particularly Charlotte and James,

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