So You Want To Use An E-book...
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So You Want To Use An E-book...



I am heading up a group that is doing our county's in-services at the end of January.  Since we are in the first year of using county wide e-books (fortunately we have been doing it for several at my school), I put together a Screencastomatic to show teachers (and you if you are interested in seeing what can be done) the amazing number of "extras" that can be done with the Patterns of Interaction e-book.  Here is the activity (meant to take at least a 90 minute block of class) that utilizes the e-book as well as several Internet resources I found.  Both the video and the lesson are for the Byzantine Empire. 




- Fcps Personalized Learning In-service
I am giving a hands on presentation at Fairfax County, VA's Advanced Academic Institute at South County HS from 8:30 - 11:30. If you work for FCPS and would like to sign up go into MyPLT and type in summer into the search box and the AAP courses...

- Using The Whi/ii E-book
Today I am doing an in-service using our Patterns of Interaction e-textbook.  Here is a short example of one of my upcoming assignments on Islam and here is a longer one on the Punic Wars.  As with everything, I use Google Drive to make it....

- Wwi Webquest, E-book, Qr Codes
Kim Belknap is taking my integrating technology in the classroom course (which I will be offering this summer to people who want to take it virtually - details will come out in early April).  She just did a great webquest on World War I using her...

- Consulting For Your Department, School Or District
Have led 15 district-wide, in-services for Fairfax County, VA (12th largest district in the US), as well as international conferences such as the Global Education Conference.  Initiated, piloted and implemented e-books for Fairfax County Public School...

- E-books
Two years ago I had the opportunity to pilot online books w. our students and now thanks to some innovative county leaders, we are, as a county, mostly going to e-books next year for our high school social studies classes.  When people ask me why...



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