World History
- Force Fitting Technology Into The Classroom
Last week Larry Ferlazzo interviewed me and Susie Boss for his radio show. Ferlazzo is a leading innovator in tech education, a writer for Education Week and a classroom teacher. We discussed the topic of which comes first, technology or content....
- West Wing's Mercator Map Snippet
I know none of our students now know about the West Wing, but I love to show this short clip to my students each year to compare the Peters Projection map with the Mercator projection. Most of our students think Mercator is correct and this video...
- Cave Art
This is a very interesting article that you might add to when you talk about cave art at the beginning of your World History I course. What is most interesting is that it is about cave art found in Indonesia that is at least 39,000 years old and...
- 80b Ways To Use Google Forms In Classroom
This is a great slideshow of ways to use Google Drive forms in the classroom and includes links to examples. Thanks to @rroysden for the Tweet on it. ...
- The East India Company
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World History
The True Size of Africa
Unfortunately we just did map distortions a week ago, but this is a great way to show students the problem the Mercator map which still dominates most of our classroom walls. Here is a short Economist article on the topic. Thanks to a Tweet from Conrad Hackett for this one.
- Force Fitting Technology Into The Classroom
Last week Larry Ferlazzo interviewed me and Susie Boss for his radio show. Ferlazzo is a leading innovator in tech education, a writer for Education Week and a classroom teacher. We discussed the topic of which comes first, technology or content....
- West Wing's Mercator Map Snippet
I know none of our students now know about the West Wing, but I love to show this short clip to my students each year to compare the Peters Projection map with the Mercator projection. Most of our students think Mercator is correct and this video...
- Cave Art
This is a very interesting article that you might add to when you talk about cave art at the beginning of your World History I course. What is most interesting is that it is about cave art found in Indonesia that is at least 39,000 years old and...
- 80b Ways To Use Google Forms In Classroom
This is a great slideshow of ways to use Google Drive forms in the classroom and includes links to examples. Thanks to @rroysden for the Tweet on it. ...
- The East India Company
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