World History
Using YouTube in Your Classroom
I found this great slide show on Crash Course for Educators which I found from one of the communities I follow on Google+. Soon I will do a post on all the amazing new teacher and technology posts you can follow as they are growing quickly. The video above is ten ways you can use YouTube to improve your classroom from ways to have stations, to flipping your class, to posting message to students and parents and more.
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More On Google Classroom: Things You Can Do
If you are interested in Google Classroom and read Ken's post below, you might want to read some of Alice Keeler's blog posts about how to use Google Classroom. Keeler has also written a book called 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom....
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Personalizing Classroom Instruction - W&m Presentation
I am presenting at William and Mary's Leadership Academy for administrators and teacher leaders. The institute is based on John Hattie's beliefs (some of which you can see here). The goal is for the administrators to learn how they can lead...
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Flipped Learning And Differentiation
Believe it or not the NYTimes has an opinion piece advocating the Flipped Classroom. But it is the quasi flipped classroom which I use a lot in our combined ESOL World History I class (which is a ESOL and standard education students combined in...
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How And When To Use Pinterest In The Classroom
Pinterest is growing like a virtual weed and is now in the top 30 of all websites in the US. If you have no idea what it is or how to use it, this five minute video will be very helpful for you. Here, and here ways to use it in the classroom....
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Youtube Blocked At Your School?
I have been using Splicd.com to quickly show only the portion of a youtube video I want in class. It is great for schools where youtube is blocked. But two others that you can use are ViewPure and SafeShare.tv which also give you a new url...
World History