World History
I am constantly trying to connect what we are doing to do the lives of my students. This video on the iphone does a good job of showing kids how it impacts (positive and negative) our economy. For example we just finished ancient China and so now my students can understand a bit of the connection to that country and the five other ones which makes components of the phone.
- 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...
- Intro To China - World's Most Typical Person
This is how I will begin my unit on China. It is a great way to remind the kids that while they may be from the US, they are anything but typical. I love that my school has a growing Chinese and Indian immigrant population which makes those...
- Wikitude And Discovering Tweets In Class
Wikitude is a free app that does a lot of cool things such as tell you where you can get food of your choice nearby, see if friends are near and more. But while I love using smartphone for positive gain in the classroom, one thing it can also do...
- Ghana, Songhai, Mali
Tomorrow I will be at a chairs' meeting and my students will be doing a fairly traditional e-learning assignment from viewing this PowerPoint on Ghana, Mali and Songhai and then making sure they understand the connections between the three eastern...
- Focusing While Reading E-books
Because I have been pushing e-books for four years now, I get lots of good and some negative comments (the positives have greatly increased with this article from the WashPost on my classroom). One negative comments is that it is harder to focus...
World History
World Connections
I am constantly trying to connect what we are doing to do the lives of my students. This video on the iphone does a good job of showing kids how it impacts (positive and negative) our economy. For example we just finished ancient China and so now my students can understand a bit of the connection to that country and the five other ones which makes components of the phone.
- 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...
- Intro To China - World's Most Typical Person
This is how I will begin my unit on China. It is a great way to remind the kids that while they may be from the US, they are anything but typical. I love that my school has a growing Chinese and Indian immigrant population which makes those...
- Wikitude And Discovering Tweets In Class
Wikitude is a free app that does a lot of cool things such as tell you where you can get food of your choice nearby, see if friends are near and more. But while I love using smartphone for positive gain in the classroom, one thing it can also do...
- Ghana, Songhai, Mali
Tomorrow I will be at a chairs' meeting and my students will be doing a fairly traditional e-learning assignment from viewing this PowerPoint on Ghana, Mali and Songhai and then making sure they understand the connections between the three eastern...
- Focusing While Reading E-books
Because I have been pushing e-books for four years now, I get lots of good and some negative comments (the positives have greatly increased with this article from the WashPost on my classroom). One negative comments is that it is harder to focus...