World History
Tonight I am doing an in-service for students who are going to be in honors World History I (Pre-history through the Renaissance). Other than the summer assignment, though, the skills are useful for all students and includes how to read, take notes, organize and write an essay. Here is my outline along with all the links the students will need to successfully complete the evening.
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World History
Honors Institute for World History I Students
Tonight I am doing an in-service for students who are going to be in honors World History I (Pre-history through the Renaissance). Other than the summer assignment, though, the skills are useful for all students and includes how to read, take notes, organize and write an essay. Here is my outline along with all the links the students will need to successfully complete the evening.
- Todaysmeet As An Alternative For Twitter
Richard Byrne and I started teaching a class together online tonight. One of the things we spoke about what using Twitter in your classroom. Several of the middle school teachers were understandably hesitant. So I suggested something...
- Study Notes For Outlines
Mary Ward is going to be posting some ideas on my government blog and so from here I learned about Study Notes which has outlines for each chapter of world history. Obviously it is getting harder and harder for students to be assigned the traditional...
- The Enlightenment And Primary Resources
Fordham University has a tremendous asset for your teaching of world history with tons and tons of links for every part of what you teach broken up into an easy to follow outline that looks like your World History I or II class. For example, for the...
- Fakebook For Historical Discussions
I showed my teacher students tonight so they could create Fakebook pages with their students. I use it, for example, to have my students converse between different historical characters. What I love about it is that the algorithm finds...
- Collaborize Classroom
?CollaborizeClassroom? is a really neat site that?s a little like Black Board?s blog or assignment feature, but much more intuitive and it?s free. Their platform allows students to engage in conversations, ask and answer questions,...