World History
I am reading The People's Republic of Amnesia which is about the 1989 Tienanmen Square Massacre (or incident as it is taught in China). For those of us in the West, the image of the tank man is what we think of. Interestingly enough it came after most had already been killed and the question is always, "I wonder what happened to that person." Well, in the video above he didn't die, but he did show a lot of courage. It is entirely appropriate to show your students.
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World History
Tank Man Video From Tienanmen Square
I am reading The People's Republic of Amnesia which is about the 1989 Tienanmen Square Massacre (or incident as it is taught in China). For those of us in the West, the image of the tank man is what we think of. Interestingly enough it came after most had already been killed and the question is always, "I wonder what happened to that person." Well, in the video above he didn't die, but he did show a lot of courage. It is entirely appropriate to show your students.
- How Europe's Borders Changed Over 2000 Years
This is a great, and very quick video, to perhaps show at the beginning and end of your course to show your students how country borders have changed so much. I found it from a Tweet from FC Tymrak. ...
- Editing In Youtube
Believe it or not, but a fellow chair asked what we are doing for our end of the year project. Some of my students will be looking at an immigrant in their family and writing an original essay on that person, but they also need to have a narrated...
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- Malala Yousafza And Her Inspirational Message
The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on FacebookIf you ever have a student who doesn't want to do work, show them the first 30 seconds of this Jon Stewart interview with Malala Yousafzai who tomorrow may become the first...
- Start The Video Where You Want
Up until now I have used Splicd to set my Youtube videos to where I want them for student viewing. Splicd still is useful if you want to have a beginning and an end of the video. As you can see above you need only go to the video, click...