World History
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World History
School on a Snow Day
I will admit that I can't get away with this with all of my classes, but my AP Comparative (which is AP US Government and AP Comparative in one year) is a motivated bunch. So while today is our second snow day (actually a "cold day" since it is 5 degrees right now) we have managed to work around the day off and not miss any time. How you ask?
- For my online kids I use Blackboard Collaborate so I created a class and gave my brick and mortar kids the link back in late October and we all agreed that at 10 am on a snow day we would have class. 24 of my 30 kids made the class and the others watched the session which was recorded.
- If you don't have something like Blackboard Collaborate you could you a Google Plus Hangout live stream where you could send a link to your students and they could watch a live lecture (here's how). You could then use Today's Meet to send a link to students and you could see their live questions. You would be able to do this by splitting your screen.
- Today based on what we are doing I decided not to how an online session and instead made the video above as both an introduction and a continuation of our material. Then my kids will watch this video and look up these court cases.
- I communicated with the kids by using Remind101, Blackboard and even using my gradebook which has all of the kids' emails. For the Remind101 message I used a shortened tinyurl (tinyurl.com/fcpscoldday) which linked to my normal homework e-sheet. so I didn't have to text the kids multiple times with the assignments.
- We will start our class on Thursday with questions (several have already emailed me with some) and then take a quiz where the kids can use their notes. Then we will move on and still be able to have our test next week without a hitch.
- So if you have a motivated bunch and you can afford to miss a day of school you might want to try some of the techniques.
- Flipping And Grouping To A Better Learning Environment
Two days ago my county's deputy superintendent spent part of a period with one of my classes. He was curious how we were doing with our Chromebooks. One of my students said something like she really liked the class because "We live in...
- Personalized Urls
We normally start my classes with a five question quiz where my students can use their notes from their flipped video to answer the questions. It serves a few purposes. First I won't count the quiz grade if the notes aren't good enough...
- Changing The Face Of Instruction
I am a member of several Facebook teacher sites and am in the midst of adding to one where a teacher said his administration has banned front of the room teaching. A number of the teachers are saying how awful that is. Truth be known I have...
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- Another Digital Essential For Your Teacher Backpack
If you search this site for Remind101 you will see that I am fairly obsessed with it as kids today do not use e-mail so this is the way to reach them. You can create a section for each class and for as many classes as you have you will get...