A way of using mid-course evaluations to make teaching more effective
Social media as teaching tools
The Society of American Archvists maintains a page with information on professional training.
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
A great program that I took part in while concentrating in math at the University of Chicago.
Exhibitions and Events
The Romance of the Middle Ages
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 28 Jan. - 13 May 2012
Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books
Cambridge University Library, 18 Jan. - 16 June 2012
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen
The Lewis Chessmen on display at the Cloisters, 15 Nov. 2011 - 22 April 2012
(Note, however, that a theory of Icelandic origin for the Chessmen is being taken seriously, though we are far from proving anything either way.)
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices
An exhibition at the British Library, 12 Nov. 2010 - 3 April 2011
Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
An exhibit at the Oriental Museum on the University of Chicago campus, 28 Sept. 2010 - 6 March 2011
Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition 2010
An exhibit at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, 4 Dec. 2010 - 13 Feb. 2011
The Ness of Brodgar, in the Orkney Islands, may prefigure some elements of the complex at Stonehenge
Medievalists and other fun
Who says academics don't have a sense of humour?
British Library 'Treasures' App
Siân Echard's Medieval and Arthurian Pages
Excellent resources, as well as research information from medievalists worldwide
METRO - Middle English Teaching Resources Online
Downloadable files containing medieval texts from a wide variety of languages
Hrodulf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Spenser's Faerie Queene on Facebook
The Battle of Maldon, with legos, "Night on Bald Mountain," and Old English subtitles - too good to be true, I know!
Shakespeare in the original pronunciation at KU
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418
This project will be fascinating once it's complete: a map-based rethinking of cultural and literary ties between different parts of Europe.
A collection of spoken word, music, and natural sounds
Research Tools
Maybe some of us could use this reminder of the way that it is possible to produce a paper in a a short space of time.
Some information on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors
CODECS: online database and e-resources for Celtic Studies
T-PEN Project - digital transcription tool for those working with unpublished manuscripts
ARTstor Digital Library - makes over a million images related to the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences available for teaching or research
RUNNERS - Contents database for hundreds of journals
Resources for Writers in the Humanities, by Alice Hutton Sharp (alice.hutton "at" alumni.utoronto.ca)
BYU-hosted language corpora - see, for example, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the British National Corpus (BNC)