World History
@trevorpacker for AP Updates
Most people who teach and AP course know that Trevor Packer is the head honcho for all AP subjects. If you follow him on Twitter he will Tweet when the College Board has released the FRQs for your subject. Laster in the summer (late July) he will release the statistics on each exam such as passing percentage, percentage of 5s, 4s and more.
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Virtual Tours For Your Classroom
One of my favorite exercises when we get to the Renaissance is to show them a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel as I love looking at the marvel of my students when they see what one person can do. This link will give you access to that tour as well as...
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Twitter Warm-up For Your Classes
Today my colleague, Doug Zywiol asked his US history classes to Tweet him the biggest hurdle facing George Washington when he started his presidential term. If you go to @dougzywiol you can see the student responses. To have your students...
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Twitter For Your Pln
During our first week of school (not until next week) I am doing a presentation about Professional Learning Networks to other teachers in my county. I am going to focus on Twitter. So to start off on top above is how to set up a Twitter...
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Ap World Test Results Preview
Here's a preview of AP World scores from the College Board's Trevor Packer. He tweets the overall results for each of the AP tests. I storified the four or five tweets he made about the World History exam. Essay scores, apparently, are among the...
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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
My colleague, Jeff Feinstein, and I jumped into Twitter full steam this week. We both created twitter feeds for our AP classes. The purpose of the feeds is to give kids updates, reminders, and links to interesting stories about subjects we are studying....
World History