World History
- The Atlantic Slave Trade In Two Minutes: Animated Graphic
Slate Magazine developed a terrifc graphic that shows the ever-increasing number of slave ships between Africa and America between the 16th and 19th centuries. Here's the way it works: "This interactive, designed and built by Slate?s Andrew...
- Kahn Academy's Smart History
I just found the Kahn Academy's "Smart History," which was started in 2005 and has now been quite well populated with both history and videos. It started as an art history website, but has grown to be a nice history book or sorts with summaries,...
- Sal Kahn's Tips On Flipping Your Class
Sal Kahn has put together a ten minute video on what he believes is important in making his videos. His tips include be yourself (my students love when I put in personal items)don't make it too professionaltalk directly to the students (not...
- Kahn On Nightline
Sal Kahn was just on Nightline a few days ago. I like this piece as it is short and hits all the highlights. The main point is that technology can greatly enhance the classroom by using short videos (mine are now all under eight minutes)...
- Test Prep
I am toying with how to use this test prep for the NYRegents exam. It is not quite in the same format that I give my students, but it has most of what you and I cover for world history. For example, under belief systems you will find Shintoism, Confucianism,...
World History
Kahn Academy - SAT Prep
Time will tell if the SAT is being dumbed down or going to become a much better reflection of learning in high schools today. Either way if kids want to do well on them, they need to use Kahn Academy's site which you can find here. But since the changes won't occur until 2016, here is where you can find tutorials for the SAT today from Kahn. Above is the announcement about the SAT-Kahn merger.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade In Two Minutes: Animated Graphic
Slate Magazine developed a terrifc graphic that shows the ever-increasing number of slave ships between Africa and America between the 16th and 19th centuries. Here's the way it works: "This interactive, designed and built by Slate?s Andrew...
- Kahn Academy's Smart History
I just found the Kahn Academy's "Smart History," which was started in 2005 and has now been quite well populated with both history and videos. It started as an art history website, but has grown to be a nice history book or sorts with summaries,...
- Sal Kahn's Tips On Flipping Your Class
Sal Kahn has put together a ten minute video on what he believes is important in making his videos. His tips include be yourself (my students love when I put in personal items)don't make it too professionaltalk directly to the students (not...
- Kahn On Nightline
Sal Kahn was just on Nightline a few days ago. I like this piece as it is short and hits all the highlights. The main point is that technology can greatly enhance the classroom by using short videos (mine are now all under eight minutes)...
- Test Prep
I am toying with how to use this test prep for the NYRegents exam. It is not quite in the same format that I give my students, but it has most of what you and I cover for world history. For example, under belief systems you will find Shintoism, Confucianism,...