World History
- Battles And Routes Of Alexander The Great
OK, I have to admit it. Google Earth is really cool. Not only can you use it to see who may have been parking in front of the homes of people you know, you can make some interesting history tools. Battles and Routes of Alexander the Great is a real nice...
- Comments Policy
I have decided to be less restrictive on the comment policy on this blog. I will now allow anonymous comments. Here are some rules that govern their approval: 1. Comments with links to other sites will be assumed to be spam and deleted. If you feel you...
- Add Sound And Annimation To A Google Drive Presentation
One of our teachers just asked me how to add sound to a Google Drive presentation. I like this tutorial explaining the answer as it shows how you can actually go to a specific spot in a video. Therefore when you click on the spot on a slide it will play...
- Using Twitter To Find And Disseminate Lessons, Ideas
I follow a history teacher, David Korfhage, who originally tweeted a link to the online program ThingLink, which allows you to tag images with video, audio, social profiles, and web links. Today, I went to his original post and replied, thanking him and...
- Start The Video Where You Want
Up until now I have used Splicd to set my Youtube videos to where I want them for student viewing. Splicd still is useful if you want to have a beginning and an end of the video. As you can see above you need only go to the video, click...
World History
More on ThingLink
I just ran across this ThingLink on classical composers linked to their music on YouTube. Click on the link and you'll see each musician linked to a YouTube video. It's very cool and made me think that this might be a nice project for SOL images in both World 9 and World 10. You can read my original post on ThingLink below.
- Battles And Routes Of Alexander The Great
OK, I have to admit it. Google Earth is really cool. Not only can you use it to see who may have been parking in front of the homes of people you know, you can make some interesting history tools. Battles and Routes of Alexander the Great is a real nice...
- Comments Policy
I have decided to be less restrictive on the comment policy on this blog. I will now allow anonymous comments. Here are some rules that govern their approval: 1. Comments with links to other sites will be assumed to be spam and deleted. If you feel you...
- Add Sound And Annimation To A Google Drive Presentation
One of our teachers just asked me how to add sound to a Google Drive presentation. I like this tutorial explaining the answer as it shows how you can actually go to a specific spot in a video. Therefore when you click on the spot on a slide it will play...
- Using Twitter To Find And Disseminate Lessons, Ideas
I follow a history teacher, David Korfhage, who originally tweeted a link to the online program ThingLink, which allows you to tag images with video, audio, social profiles, and web links. Today, I went to his original post and replied, thanking him and...
- Start The Video Where You Want
Up until now I have used Splicd to set my Youtube videos to where I want them for student viewing. Splicd still is useful if you want to have a beginning and an end of the video. As you can see above you need only go to the video, click...