World History
Today I am doing an in-service for new teachers to our (Fairfax) county on how to use our Patterns of Interaction e-book. I will then do the same one next week with returning teachers who feel they need a little brushing up.
If you have never used an e-textbook, the best thing you can do is exactly what you do when you use a paper one. So our in-service begins with a scavenger hunt, then goes to how to split the computer screen so kids can work "in the book" and on an assignment and then there are a bunch of assignments to show how we integrate the e-book into our classrooms.
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- Read My Book, Earn Graduate Credit
Thanks to Julie Halse for the heads up on this one. You can now earn graduate credit by reading my book Deeper Learning Through Technology: Using the Cloud to Individualize Instruction. The book has multiple practical ways to help teachers and...
- 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....
- In-service For E-books & Online Interactives
Believe it or not, we are still in school - or at least the teachers are. So tomorrow I am doing an in-service on using Patterns of Interaction's e-book version. But the in-service will also include how to use Google documents as well...
- 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...
World History
Using World History e-book
If you have never used an e-textbook, the best thing you can do is exactly what you do when you use a paper one. So our in-service begins with a scavenger hunt, then goes to how to split the computer screen so kids can work "in the book" and on an assignment and then there are a bunch of assignments to show how we integrate the e-book into our classrooms.
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- Read My Book, Earn Graduate Credit
Thanks to Julie Halse for the heads up on this one. You can now earn graduate credit by reading my book Deeper Learning Through Technology: Using the Cloud to Individualize Instruction. The book has multiple practical ways to help teachers and...
- 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....
- In-service For E-books & Online Interactives
Believe it or not, we are still in school - or at least the teachers are. So tomorrow I am doing an in-service on using Patterns of Interaction's e-book version. But the in-service will also include how to use Google documents as well...
- 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...