World History
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- Identifying Unknown Images
I have spoken before about Tineye which allows you to identify unknown images either by uploading the image or pasting in the url to find it. Well now you can also do it using a Google search. Simply go to the "image" line at the top of the...
- Collaborize Classroom
?CollaborizeClassroom? is a really neat site that?s a little like Black Board?s blog or assignment feature, but much more intuitive and it?s free. Their platform allows students to engage in conversations, ask and answer questions,...
- Short Video Clips Of Museum Art And Objects
Smart History is a multi-media web book which was designed to be an enhancement to an art history book. It merged with Khan Academy in 2011. It has a video section divided by time period with short 3 to 9 minute explanations of important...
- The World's Most Typical Man
I just found this at Freetech4teachers.com. It is a tremendous video showing who the most most average person is in the world and what are his (and it is a he) qualities. So in three weeks I will be starting my China unit and this will be...
World History
Pinterest and Collaborative Teams
I know that Ken made a post about Penterest a couple of months ago but I've just started using it and love it as a resource for our teams. For example, I am developing boards for each unit that we study in World 1. The one above is for the Middle Ages. I want to pin all the video clips associated with each unit. Once populated, any member of my World 1 team can easily see all the video clips associated with the unit. You can also pin charts, graphs, and pictures making the board or boards a great resource for each unit.
It's really easy to pin videos and images. Once you register, and you do that through either Twitter or Facebook, you can drag a "pin it" icon to your tool bar. Every time you see a video clip or image that you like, you simply click the "pin it" icon on your toolbar and the video or image will appear on your board. The Middle ages board above includes a 25 minute clip on the Black Death from the History Channel, a seven minute clip from Sister Wendy about Bernini and Michelangelo, a chart comparing the the Black Death to deaths in WWI and WWII, and a ten minute clip about Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire. I can also annotate every video or image telling the viewer something about the video or image.
Over time, I hope to have a board for Greece, Rome, Islam, etc.
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- Identifying Unknown Images
I have spoken before about Tineye which allows you to identify unknown images either by uploading the image or pasting in the url to find it. Well now you can also do it using a Google search. Simply go to the "image" line at the top of the...
- Collaborize Classroom
?CollaborizeClassroom? is a really neat site that?s a little like Black Board?s blog or assignment feature, but much more intuitive and it?s free. Their platform allows students to engage in conversations, ask and answer questions,...
- Short Video Clips Of Museum Art And Objects
Smart History is a multi-media web book which was designed to be an enhancement to an art history book. It merged with Khan Academy in 2011. It has a video section divided by time period with short 3 to 9 minute explanations of important...
- The World's Most Typical Man
I just found this at Freetech4teachers.com. It is a tremendous video showing who the most most average person is in the world and what are his (and it is a he) qualities. So in three weeks I will be starting my China unit and this will be...