Mark E. Frank

To use the app, you just need to upload a .txt file with the name of one student per line. Once you're prepared a roster file in .txt format, you can upload the same file every time you use it in a given course. The data you input and download is all stored on your device or in your browser only.

(2) There's a "Random Groups" tool for when you need to quickly assign students to random groups. This allows you to input the group size (eg. 1, 2, 3, 4), and it randomly places students into groups of that size. If there is a remainder, the remaining students are placed in an "overflow" group.

(1) There's a "Random Student" function for when you need to call on students to respond during a discussion (and want to make sure you don't call on the same person twice). It optionally allows you to quickly record brief feedback on the student's response.

New Article with Tristan Brown, “Lost Rural Futures: Agrarian Nationalism and Industrial Dissent in Modern China” “I love you too,” the American president declared to farmers in his address to Congress last night. From Trump’s address to the national emblem of China and the fictional flag of …

New article with Tristan Brown! "Lost Rural Futures: Agrarian Nationalism and Industrial Dissent in Modern China," Comparativ 34(6). Link and preprint available on my website.

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This week, my class and I had the immense pleasure of chatting with Dr. Tore Olsson about history, video games, and his new book. We also had an in-class discussion about the women's suffrage movement as depicted in the game and in primary sources. Not my primary area of expertise, but so much fun.

The flowchart for a very simple Twine game I developed based on a murder case in Jonathan Spence's The Death of Woman Wang (1978). Over the next week, I will be leading two workshops on Twine for historians.

I'm looking forward to giving this talk at the University of Illinois next month. If you're in central Illinois, come say hello!