World History
If you teach US history you might have seen the work I am doing with a California group called ContextU on contextualizing all of US (and eventually world) history. A group that we are potentially going to be working with has produced an amazing app that takes you around ancient Rome and has a number of pop-ups to give you the history. You can also turn things in a complete circle. Really if you have a iPads for your students it is a great device to use during your Rome unit.
- Big History Project & Putting Learning In Context
Bill Gates seems to like getting involved in the way we are teaching our students. He has helped bank roll the Khan Academy, Common Core and now, from his personal money (as opposed to the Gates Foundation), he is helping to promote a connected...
- Chromebook Vs. Ipad
Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt (HMH), I have started the process of comparing the iPad to the Chromebook. HMH gave my frosh 35 iPads to use for two months as well as their iPad e-books. Certainly (and we have the US, WH and government ones...
- Tools Of The Historian
Each year I have my world history students complete at least one document based question which we just did one on Rome. Well I was looking at the post below where I put the e-book and noticed a link from it called "Tools of the Historian," which...
- Ipad Help
Back in November I was asked to run an iPad program with the new iPad version of Patterns of Interaction (WHI/WHII). They also have one for US history called The Americans and Understanding Government. At last count, approval of the entire...
- Short Videos On Ancient Rome
So yes I am putting my ancient Rome unit together, it you couldn't guess. Glencoe has some short videos on every topic found here. Here are the five on Rome. ...
World History
iPad App for Virtual Rome History
If you teach US history you might have seen the work I am doing with a California group called ContextU on contextualizing all of US (and eventually world) history. A group that we are potentially going to be working with has produced an amazing app that takes you around ancient Rome and has a number of pop-ups to give you the history. You can also turn things in a complete circle. Really if you have a iPads for your students it is a great device to use during your Rome unit.
- Big History Project & Putting Learning In Context
Bill Gates seems to like getting involved in the way we are teaching our students. He has helped bank roll the Khan Academy, Common Core and now, from his personal money (as opposed to the Gates Foundation), he is helping to promote a connected...
- Chromebook Vs. Ipad
Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt (HMH), I have started the process of comparing the iPad to the Chromebook. HMH gave my frosh 35 iPads to use for two months as well as their iPad e-books. Certainly (and we have the US, WH and government ones...
- Tools Of The Historian
Each year I have my world history students complete at least one document based question which we just did one on Rome. Well I was looking at the post below where I put the e-book and noticed a link from it called "Tools of the Historian," which...
- Ipad Help
Back in November I was asked to run an iPad program with the new iPad version of Patterns of Interaction (WHI/WHII). They also have one for US history called The Americans and Understanding Government. At last count, approval of the entire...
- Short Videos On Ancient Rome
So yes I am putting my ancient Rome unit together, it you couldn't guess. Glencoe has some short videos on every topic found here. Here are the five on Rome. ...