World History
- 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...
- To Flip Or Not To Flip
[View the story "To Flip or Not to Flip" on Storify]The Social Studies twitter chat (#sschat) discussed flipping the classroom tonight. Keith Hughes (Hip Hughes History) moderated. I storified, some, though not all of the tweets from the chat. The...
- World History & Twitter
Want to find out what other teachers are doing in world history or social studies? Want links to some of their video clips, web quests, Google document assignments? You can find all this and more by participating in weekly discussions on world history...
- Popular Educational Hashtags
Now that Frank has me doing hashtags, I am glad I just found this Edudemic list of educational hashtags. Here are ones that can help you: The Most Popular Hashtags#edchat ? Education, worldwide (lots of US teachers). A really useful hashtag...
- Google + Circles For The Classroom
I found this from a Tweet from "mrpotter". It is exactly what I was looking for to be able to use in the classroom. It details how you could create a "circle" which is where you could put your students. Then when you (or they post something)...
World History
New AP World History Chat
A new Twitter chat for AP World History teachers begins next week on Monday, 1/12/15. The hashtag is #whapchat and the topic for the first chat will be about teaching the different essay formats.
The moderator will be Angela Lee who teaches in the Boston, Mass area. You can read her blogpost about the launching of the chat here. Her blog also has links to resources including good Pinterest boards.
The chat will be a slow chat which means that one questions will be posed when the chat opens and remain open for 24 hours. You can reply to the question and conversation any time during the day of the chat. The chat will probably open at 6 am eastern time.
- 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...
- To Flip Or Not To Flip
[View the story "To Flip or Not to Flip" on Storify]The Social Studies twitter chat (#sschat) discussed flipping the classroom tonight. Keith Hughes (Hip Hughes History) moderated. I storified, some, though not all of the tweets from the chat. The...
- World History & Twitter
Want to find out what other teachers are doing in world history or social studies? Want links to some of their video clips, web quests, Google document assignments? You can find all this and more by participating in weekly discussions on world history...
- Popular Educational Hashtags
Now that Frank has me doing hashtags, I am glad I just found this Edudemic list of educational hashtags. Here are ones that can help you: The Most Popular Hashtags#edchat ? Education, worldwide (lots of US teachers). A really useful hashtag...
- Google + Circles For The Classroom
I found this from a Tweet from "mrpotter". It is exactly what I was looking for to be able to use in the classroom. It details how you could create a "circle" which is where you could put your students. Then when you (or they post something)...