World History
- Adapting Primary Sources From Beyond The Bubble
Here are some great tips on how to use primary sources with struggling readers from Beyond the Bubble, which is part of the Stanford History Education Group(SHEG). Although the example they use here is with a document from American history, the tips work...
- Quick Tech Tips From The Blogs
This in-service that I am doing today encompasses a bunch of quick tech tips that can make a big difference in the classroom. There are how to sheets or videos for each and each can be learned in a minute. It includes items such as converting a...
- Famous People Painting With Zoom-it
This is a cool painting called "Famous People Painting - Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante." If you go here, you can use your mouse and scroll over the people for their names. Kids love figuring who the people are. The other cool thing is the zoom...
- Google Search Tips
Google has a great page that will help you with any multiple searches on Google from basic to advanced ones. Some of the tips include spelling, web history, less is more, searching by file type, advanced image searching, converting measurements,...
- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was. The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day. While that is an excellent answer for a...
World History
10 Tech Tips from David Pogue
Here are some very useful and cool tips from New York Times tech columnist, David Pogue. Did you know for example, that in a text on any phone, all you need to do is press the space bar twice and a period will appear? Instead of using the scroll bar to move up on any page, just hit the space bar to scroll down a page and the shift key to scroll up. Watch the 5 minute clip for 8 other cool time saving tips.
- Adapting Primary Sources From Beyond The Bubble
Here are some great tips on how to use primary sources with struggling readers from Beyond the Bubble, which is part of the Stanford History Education Group(SHEG). Although the example they use here is with a document from American history, the tips work...
- Quick Tech Tips From The Blogs
This in-service that I am doing today encompasses a bunch of quick tech tips that can make a big difference in the classroom. There are how to sheets or videos for each and each can be learned in a minute. It includes items such as converting a...
- Famous People Painting With Zoom-it
This is a cool painting called "Famous People Painting - Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante." If you go here, you can use your mouse and scroll over the people for their names. Kids love figuring who the people are. The other cool thing is the zoom...
- Google Search Tips
Google has a great page that will help you with any multiple searches on Google from basic to advanced ones. Some of the tips include spelling, web history, less is more, searching by file type, advanced image searching, converting measurements,...
- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was. The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day. While that is an excellent answer for a...