I assume this will be all over the Internet tomorrow, but here it is too. Christine Amanpour just interviewed him and this is quite a good (and short) interview which includes references to the fact that no demonstrations are occurring and that the rebels are drug induced!
This is a webpage written by high school teachers for those who teach world history and want to find online content as well as technology that you can use in the classroom.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Continual Update on the Middle East
If you want one central location to know about the recent changes in the Middle East, go here and you will see a map, current time, a paragraph on events in the last 24 hours and links to recent articles. A great place to send your students or you if you need an easy update.
Friday, February 25, 2011
How to Use Glogster Edu
Glogster allows students to create a virtual poster with words, images, video, and more. Above is a video detailing how to do this. Below the video is an example of a student's work.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Rome Videos From the History Channel
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Ancient Rome
Don't let the look of this page fool you as it has a lot of information on ancient Rome. It has a nice breakdown of eras from the Stone Age through the fall of Rome.
Monday, February 21, 2011
What is Going on in the Middle East?
Here and here are two great graphics which briefly explains the reasons behind the demonstrations in the Middle East. Here is a page with pictures, video and more.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Study Guides
These are Virginia Standards of Learning (state exam) review guides, but they work fine for US and world history which your state would have.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Peak at the Future
Kno is an educational tablet company that just might have the coolest laptop in the world which you can see in the above video. Think if you connected to ipads together and you get Kno. You can drag things from one screen to the other, type (a la the ipad) on one screen, read on one side and use the Internet on the other, or even make it fold back on itself to have only one screen showing. Take a look and imagine how your students could use it.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Summary of Tunisian and Egyptian Events
Showing why the NYTimes is the best e-paper in the world, here is a wonderful summary of the events of the last few months in Tunisia and Egypt that you could share in parts on in its entirety with your students. It is a visual summary of the events, from pictures (with explanations) as well as short videos and an audio track overview.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Steve Martin's King Tut
Okay, so perhaps this is just me remembering my high school years. But since it is on the webpage I posted on below, it made me think that next year I will show it to my students as it does have some rather relevant information on King Tut (okay just a little bit) and is fun!
Tremendous Teacher Webpage
Tremendous Class Webpage
This is quite simply one of the best class webpages I have ever seen. It includes outlines (yes they come from a textbook, but you will see it is very smoothly done and you still remain on the website), great online games, video, terms and a calendar. I will add that it is made for AP World. I just wish the teacher had his e-mail on there so I could get him to help me on this blog page.
This is quite simply one of the best class webpages I have ever seen. It includes outlines (yes they come from a textbook, but you will see it is very smoothly done and you still remain on the website), great online games, video, terms and a calendar. I will add that it is made for AP World. I just wish the teacher had his e-mail on there so I could get him to help me on this blog page.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Athens vs Sparta
Here is a very detailed comparison chart showing the differences and similarities between Sparta and Athents from PBS. There are also links giving more details.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Damage to Egyptian Antiquity
The top video is a CNN explanation of the damage that has been done to the King Tut exhibit and others at the Cairo Museum. Below is from Al Jazeera which has video of the damage.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Teaching the Middle East
Given recent events in Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt, the Middle East has yet again taken center stage in world news. Most of us use these headlines as entres into historical narratives, specifically regional or national narratives, and this teaching site from the University of Chicago does a fine job of supporting that goal.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Persian Wars
This is certainly not professionally done, but if you want to show your kids the highlights of the Persian Wars, this is perfect.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Paintings Close Up
Google has gained access to some of the finest museums in Europe and now (as you can see in the video) above, you can go to their website, link to the museums and then look at the paintings in a very close up fashion with your students.
Twitter, Google and Egypt
Sorry, but as a world history teacher who loves technology, I could not pass up sharing this with you. With the Internet mostly still down in Egypt, Google and Twitter have teamed up and there are three numbers that Egyptians can call to record a message you can hear here on Twitter. They last from 5 seconds to a minute. Above is a short story on it and another one is here.
Using Google Docs w. Your Students
I did an in-service today was partly on how to use Google Docs, Google Presentation (PowerPoint), to create collections (folders), how to upload and how to link to one's student presentation tool (ie Blackboard, Google Sites, Edublog, etc.). The advantage of doing this is that once you have the link set up, you can just make the change within Google and will never have to re-upload the document or presentation again.
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