World History
People who know this blog and interact with me on a more regular basis always want to know where I get my ideas. My Twitter feed is one place where I get ideas, but another is my RSS feed on my igoogle page. One of my feeds comes from The Pursuit of Technology Integration where I found Toppropa which is a way to identify map parts in Europe. For example you can test your knowledge of rivers, lakes, regions, mountains, bodies of water or even things like monarchies and volcanoes.
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World History
Toppropa (European Map Skills)
- To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
My colleague, Jeff Feinstein, and I jumped into Twitter full steam this week. We both created twitter feeds for our AP classes. The purpose of the feeds is to give kids updates, reminders, and links to interesting stories about subjects we are studying....
- Netvibes For Your Essential Digital Backpack
With iGoogle going the way of the Dodo bird in November 2013, after researching it, I have decided to go with Netvibes. If you are like me and want to have all of your blogs, newspapers, e-mails, rss feed, Twitter, Facebook, etc. in one place,...
- Blog Contributors Grow By One
When I started this blog 4+ years ago I wanted it to be a way to communicate between schools in my district - something beyond the traditional collaborative teams that were then being implemented - as I did not feel lesson planning and great ideas to...
- Great Video On Using Mobile Devices In The Classroom
I will be soon highlighting some of the sites mentioned in the video above, but it is well worth the six minutes to watch it for the new learning ideas. It goes through using sites like Instagram, Twitter, PollEverywhere as well as many ones I...
- Teaching Channel
...