World History
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- Using Google Drive In Your Classroom
One of my former teacher-students, Amanda Lombardi has been proving for a long time that special education students are great for using technology in the classroom (and this year I am going to prove that with ESOL kids). Tomorrow she is doing an...
- How To Use Prezis
Jason van Cassell is doing an in-service for social studies teachers tomorrow on how to use Prezi. Prezis are a cool alternative to PowerPoints. I like them best as they force the creator to think about a more enticing PowerPoint that can...
- Global Education Conference
I am presenting at the online Global Education Conference on Tuesday November 16th at 8 AM EST. The conference has over 300 free sessions. If you are interested, I will be doing a session on using Google Docs with your students and peers....
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...
World History
Ancient China PowerPoint
So in my continuing evolution as a teacher, I am moving away from PowerPoints so in the slideshow above I will probably only use about 15 slides on the dynasties and all of them will be in a recorded video which my students will choose to watch in class at their own pace or alternatively listen to a live presentation. But if you still like using PowerPoints, feel free to copy mine and create your own alterations (as I did with the people who preceded me).
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- Using Google Drive In Your Classroom
One of my former teacher-students, Amanda Lombardi has been proving for a long time that special education students are great for using technology in the classroom (and this year I am going to prove that with ESOL kids). Tomorrow she is doing an...
- How To Use Prezis
Jason van Cassell is doing an in-service for social studies teachers tomorrow on how to use Prezi. Prezis are a cool alternative to PowerPoints. I like them best as they force the creator to think about a more enticing PowerPoint that can...
- Global Education Conference
I am presenting at the online Global Education Conference on Tuesday November 16th at 8 AM EST. The conference has over 300 free sessions. If you are interested, I will be doing a session on using Google Docs with your students and peers....
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...