Thomas C. Hammond

Assistant Professor
Lehigh University
College of Education
Teaching, Learning, and Technology program

• most current cv (.pdf format)
• running calendar
• contact info
• map showing office location

Summer 2009

• Teaching
  • TLT 406: Tools for Teaching & Learning...course page.
  • TLT 394: Teaching & Learning with Geospatial Tools...course page TK
• Presenting
  • Ackerman Colloquium at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN June 18-20
    • Hammond, T.C. (2009, June). GIS and Google Earth in Light-Weight, Scaffolded Approaches to Geospatial Tools & Inquiry. Presented at the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship Colloquium on Technology and Citizenship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
    • Hammond, T.C. (2009, June). Primary Access: Overview of Research and Directions for Future Study. Presented at the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship Colloquium on Technology and Citizenship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
  • National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), June 28-July 1
    • Hammond, T., & Lee, J. (2009, June). Teaching With Digital Video in the Social Studies Classroom. Accepted as a Lecture at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Washington, DC.
    • Hammond, T., Ferster, B., & Manfra, M. (2009, June). Showing, Inquiring, and Doing History: Thinking Deeply With Web-Based Tools. Accepted as a Lecture at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Washington, DC.

Spring 2009

• Teaching - on leave
• Presenting
  • Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), March 2-6
    • Lee, J., & Hammond, T. (2009, March). Watching, Analyzing, and Creating: Teachers using Digital Video in Social Studies. Presented as a Panel at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) annual conference, Charleston, SC.
    • Manfra, M., Friedman, A., Hammond, T., Lee, J. (2009, March). Peering Behind the Curtain: Digital History, Historiography, and Secondary Social Studies Methods. Presented as a Brief Paper at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) annual conference, Charleston, SC.
  • American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 13-17
    • Hammond, T., Keeler, C., Manfra, M., Lee, J., & Friedman, A. (2009, April). Epistemology Is Elementary: Historical Thinking in Social Studies Methods Courses via Critical Inquiries of Wikipedia Entries. Presented as a Paper Discussion at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Publications
  • Hammond. T., & Bodzin, A. (2009). Teaching with rather than about Geographic Information Systems. Social Education, 73(3), 119-123.
  • Hammond, T. (2009, March/April). Wikipedia: Friend or foe? (Point/Counterpoint). Learning and Leading with Technology, 8-9.

Fall 2008

• Teaching
  • TLT 412: Social Studies in Elementary Education...course page
  • TLT 450: Technology in School Settings...course page.
• Presenting
  • K12Online Conference, October 21
    • Student Creation of Digital Documentaries in History Classrooms: Research Findings (page with embedded media file and downloadable versions)
  • Union School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 25-26
    • Wiki site (contains all further links, files).
  • Centennial School, September 17
    • Introduction to SmartBoards: Notebook files (pdf version), handout, web links.
• Publications
  • Manfra, M., & Hammond, T. (2008). Teachers' instructional choices with student-created digital documentaries: Case studies. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 41(2), 223-245.

Summer 2008

• Teaching
  • TLT 412: Social Studies in Elementary Education...course page
  • TLT 470: Integrating Technology in the Classroom...course page
• Presenting
  • National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), San Antonio, TX, June 30
    • Hammond, T., Friedman, A., & Manfra, M. (2008). Wikipedia in the Social Studies Classroom: Beyond Information Seeking. (ppt) (wiki page)
    • Hammond, T., & Manfra, M. (2008). Sharing Designs: Student Creation of Digital Documentaries with PrimaryAccess. (ppt)
  • Lehigh Valley Computer Science Teachers Association, May 15
    • Hammond, T. (2008). Google Earth, GPS, and KML via geospatial inquiry. (handout)
• Workshop
  • Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Center page.
    • Topic: Integrating Digital Primary Sources in the Classroom.
    • Participants: 5th- and 8th-grade teachers
    • Resources addressed: wikis, PrimaryAccess, and PrimarySourceLearning.org.
• Publications
  • Bull, G., & Hammond, T. (2008). The Future of eLearning in K-12 schools. In H.H. Adelsberger, Kinshuk, J.M. Pawlowski, & D.G. Sampson (Eds.), Handbook on information technologies for education and training (2nd ed., pp. 345-361). New York, NY: Springer.

Spring 2008

• Teaching
  • TLT 412: Social Studies in Elementary Education...course page.
  • TLT 431: Social Studies in Middle Level and High School Education...course page.
• Presenting: Society for Instructional Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 3-7
  • Hammond, T. (2008). "So what?" Students' articulation of civic themes in middle-school digital documentary projects. Brief paper.
  • Hammond, T. (2008). Scaffolded vs. unscaffolded digital history projects: A quasi-experiment in a middle school history classroom. Brief paper.
  • Hammond, T., Manfra, M., Friedman, A., Keeler, C., & Metan, D. (2008). Epistemology is elementary: Historical thinking as applied epistemology in an elementary social studies methods class. Brief paper.
  • Park, J., & Hammond, T. (2008). An Updated Approach to Using Digital Video in Content Area Education, Part 1. Symposium.
  • Park, J., & Hammond, T. (2008). An Updated Approach to Using Digital Video in Content Area Education, Part 2. Symposium.
• Publications
  • Bull, G., Bell, L., & Hammond, T. (2008). Advancing TPCK through collaborations across educational associations. In P. Mishra & M. Koehler (Eds.), The handbook of technological pedagogical content knowledge for teaching and teacher educators (pp. 273-287). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Fall 2007

• Teaching TBTE 415 / TLT 450: Technology in School settings...course page
  • This course is being taught in parallel with a course at the University of Virginia, EDLF 545: Applied Teaching with Technology.
• Presenting
  • National Technology Leadership Summit, Washington, DC, October 4-5
  • College and University Faculty Association of the National Council for the Social Studies in San Diego, CA Nov 28-29
    • Presentation with Meghan McGlinn Manfra: Teachers' instructional choices with student-created digital documentaries: Case studies (ppt, paper)

Summer 2007

• Teaching
  • TBTE 412-10: Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies (Elem) ... course page
• Presenting
  • Ackerman Colloquium at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN July 23-26
    • Presentation: Reflective, competent, and concerned citizens in the history classroom: Seventh-grade students' inclusion of citizenship themes in digital history projects (ppt)
  • National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, GA June 24-27
    • Panel: Defining a Technology-supportive Environment: Preparing a Foundation for Research
    • Workshop: PrimaryAccess: Creating Digital Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom (materials)
• Publications
  • Hammond, T. (2007). A task-oriented framework for stand-alone technology integration classes. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 23(4), 153-158.

Spring 2007

• Defended dissertation (.pdf format) at the University of Virginia. Title: Media, scaffolds, canvases: A quantitative and qualitative investigation of student content knowledge outcomes in technology-mediated seventh-grade history instruction. Co-chairs: Stephanie Van Hover & Glen Bull.

This wiki contains 290 pages and has received