World History
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 objects like the seated scribe (2600 BCE) or Hammurabi Law code stele in the clip above. Both objects are in the Louvre. These clips are great visuals and explanations that you can put on Blackboard as an assignment or show in class. You can find very good art history clips for the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution as well. Check it out.
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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...
- Great Social Studies Site: Go Social Studies Go
Awesome world history site, organized by unit, from prehistory to the Iranian Revolution. Thanks to Ed Casey who tweeted the link. Check it out and save it. You'll see sub units with short histories, good maps.and even short video...
- Jesse Owens & The 1936 Olympics
Open Culture has two great clips about about the 1936 Olympics when Jesse Owens won medals in the 100 and 200 yard dash , and 4 x100 meter relay and dashed Hitler's visions of an Aryan world. The first shows the actual event and the second is...
- Top Stories For May
Despite the fact that school is out for some (I still have three weeks), we had 45,000 pageviews and from 21,000 unique visitors. Our top posts this month were Vodcasts of the Entire AP World BookThe Travels of Ibn BattutaShort Video Clips of Museum...
- 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...
World History
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 objects like the seated scribe (2600 BCE) or Hammurabi Law code stele in the clip above. Both objects are in the Louvre. These clips are great visuals and explanations that you can put on Blackboard as an assignment or show in class. You can find very good art history clips for the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution as well. Check it out.
- 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...
- Great Social Studies Site: Go Social Studies Go
Awesome world history site, organized by unit, from prehistory to the Iranian Revolution. Thanks to Ed Casey who tweeted the link. Check it out and save it. You'll see sub units with short histories, good maps.and even short video...
- Jesse Owens & The 1936 Olympics
Open Culture has two great clips about about the 1936 Olympics when Jesse Owens won medals in the 100 and 200 yard dash , and 4 x100 meter relay and dashed Hitler's visions of an Aryan world. The first shows the actual event and the second is...
- Top Stories For May
Despite the fact that school is out for some (I still have three weeks), we had 45,000 pageviews and from 21,000 unique visitors. Our top posts this month were Vodcasts of the Entire AP World BookThe Travels of Ibn BattutaShort Video Clips of Museum...
- 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...