Rebecca Nesvet is Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She kindly agreed to be interviewed by Lee Skallerup Besette on her use of FromThePage in her classroom. Lee Skallerup Besette is an Instructional Technology Specialist at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, specializing in the … [Read more...] about Interview with Rebecca Nesvet on using FromThePage in the Digital Humanities classroom
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