World History
- Spanish History At Spain Then And Now
While browsing online, I found a nice site for Spanish history. It is Overview of Spanish History at Spain Then and Now. It is easy to read and had a surprising amount of depth for a site clearly designed to generate revenue from Google Adsense...
- The Most Important Invention In Modern History - The Clock?!
This is a fascinating video arguing that the invention of the clock lead to a completely changed way of life for all of us, changing our sleep patterns, hurrying our lives, but also making us think more in terms of accounting for all part of our life...
- Howjsay To Pronounce Words
A number of my students are either currently ESOL students or were in the program in the last year or two. So one of the resources we use is Howjsay.com where you can input a word and it says it for you. The other day for example, we were...
- Different Strains Of Early Man
This is another in a line of fascinating articles on early man. The video and article discuss the fact that there were several competing lines of Neanderthal humans. The other nice thing about the short video is that it is a good way to show...
- Fake Tweet Builder
I am teaching my "teacher-students" Fake Tweet Builder today and was perusing the Internet for a video or how to sheet when I found one of my students from the fall, Matt Levi, who had made a video for our class. It is actually especially good because...
World History
Origin of "x"
One of my new teacher-students, Dan Ashley, gave me this 3 minute video on the origin of "x." It comes from Arabic by way of Spain. The Spanish could not pronounce the the Arabic word below (meaning "something" so they made it "x" instead and it is not changed since then. It is a fascinating short video and a good one to explain the influence of the Arabs on the western world.
- Spanish History At Spain Then And Now
While browsing online, I found a nice site for Spanish history. It is Overview of Spanish History at Spain Then and Now. It is easy to read and had a surprising amount of depth for a site clearly designed to generate revenue from Google Adsense...
- The Most Important Invention In Modern History - The Clock?!
This is a fascinating video arguing that the invention of the clock lead to a completely changed way of life for all of us, changing our sleep patterns, hurrying our lives, but also making us think more in terms of accounting for all part of our life...
- Howjsay To Pronounce Words
A number of my students are either currently ESOL students or were in the program in the last year or two. So one of the resources we use is Howjsay.com where you can input a word and it says it for you. The other day for example, we were...
- Different Strains Of Early Man
This is another in a line of fascinating articles on early man. The video and article discuss the fact that there were several competing lines of Neanderthal humans. The other nice thing about the short video is that it is a good way to show...
- Fake Tweet Builder
I am teaching my "teacher-students" Fake Tweet Builder today and was perusing the Internet for a video or how to sheet when I found one of my students from the fall, Matt Levi, who had made a video for our class. It is actually especially good because...