World History
I have a great group of freshmen this year, but I always have students who do not understand the importance of education. Since this is a world history class, you might want to show the first few minutes of this film to your students (although you might want to skip a few seconds early on as they have a few graphic scenes of those who support females in education) who feel this way. The upshot of what the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan is that girls are not only being kicked out of school, but the ones who defy the ban as well as their teachers and administrators are being punished. Yesterday the now 14 year girl featured in this film, Malala Yousafzai, was shot at close range on her school bus and is now in critical condition (as the article details). Her crime was that she spoke to the NYTimes and continued to go to school.
- Reminder Texts For Your Students
Three years ago I started telling teachers in my tech integration course about Remind101 so it was kind of cool tonight when I found out a third high school has now shown their entire school the site based on word of mouth that has been passed around...
- How To Start Your Students On The Flipped Experience
So yesterday when George Coe and I were teaching how to flip, Frank Franz was sitting on the sidelines and occasionally answering questions. One of the best questions was how do you get your students to accept the concept of flipping. Well...
- Have Your Students Meet Foreign Students Online
Today one of my 9th grade classes had an usual experience. We had a video conference with a class of like aged students in Italy set up by Face to Faith. Yes the name gave me pause at first thinking about our First Amendment limitations, but...
- How To Download Everything At Once In Google Docs
This year my county has introduced Google Apps, but due to our interpretation of COPPA, we are not letting our students (and since they can not be separated out, our teachers & administrators) share with someone outside of our domain. If you...
- E-books
Two years ago I asked to pilot an e-book for students at my school. We ended up doing it with all juniors. One other middle school also did it and that spread to 16 schools in our county this past year. Now we are almost definitely going to...
World History
Motivating Your World History Students
- Reminder Texts For Your Students
Three years ago I started telling teachers in my tech integration course about Remind101 so it was kind of cool tonight when I found out a third high school has now shown their entire school the site based on word of mouth that has been passed around...
- How To Start Your Students On The Flipped Experience
So yesterday when George Coe and I were teaching how to flip, Frank Franz was sitting on the sidelines and occasionally answering questions. One of the best questions was how do you get your students to accept the concept of flipping. Well...
- Have Your Students Meet Foreign Students Online
Today one of my 9th grade classes had an usual experience. We had a video conference with a class of like aged students in Italy set up by Face to Faith. Yes the name gave me pause at first thinking about our First Amendment limitations, but...
- How To Download Everything At Once In Google Docs
This year my county has introduced Google Apps, but due to our interpretation of COPPA, we are not letting our students (and since they can not be separated out, our teachers & administrators) share with someone outside of our domain. If you...
- E-books
Two years ago I asked to pilot an e-book for students at my school. We ended up doing it with all juniors. One other middle school also did it and that spread to 16 schools in our county this past year. Now we are almost definitely going to...