Hello SIGCIS,
Somehow I fell off the list back in September 2020. Thank you Andy R. and Jason for resubscribing me.
In 2019, I resigned from Vintage Computer Federation (~15 years after founding the predecessor organization) and started working at New Jersey Institute of Technology as a science writer in the communications office, where my primary assignment is the computer science department.
Thus I got to know the dean and the faculty, and asked them if I could teach the history of computing. They said yes, so as of this spring I am teaching my first college course, CS-485 / Special Topics: Introduction to Computing History. I arranged it so there are no prerequisites, and students do not have to be CS majors -- anyone at the university can take this course.
There is a similar course in our history department catalog, but it has not been offered since 2018, after which Elizabeth Petrick moved to Rice University.
I know the material well enough, but I would like to hear advice about * how * to teach and what type of assignments to give.
-Evan Koblentz
