World History
One of my teacher-students, Jerry Walsh, just told me about "autosummarizing" which literally summarizes a long passage. This might work well if you have your students go to a Wikipedia page that has much more information than you want. I, of course, do not want something downloaded on my computer like Microsoft Word, so I found Tools4Noobs which does the same thing for free. For example here is a Wikipedia passage on Campaign Finance and here is the Tools4Noobs summary. Obviously you would have to look at it yourself first to see if it kept your most important parts, but it's worth a try.
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World History
Autosummarizing
- Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide To Normandy 1944
Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944 - The story of the Normandy Invasion through the spoken recollections of veterans who fought it, the newsreels that recorded the events, and written collections of historians who studied the campaign....
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Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
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Developed by Lou Montulli in 1994 when he worked for Netscape, cookies help direct what we see on the Internet. Cookies are being downloaded on your laptop all the time and are collected by the web browsers you use. Essentially they are individual...
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I am surprised I haven't heard about his as this school (Battlefield HS in Prince William County, VA) is just down the road from me. If you go here you can look on the right hand side of the page and hit the "+" by "social studies" and...
- Stop Watch & Splitting Your Computer And Lcd Screens
I learned a trick from a 7th grade teacher in my building that if you want students to work more quickly - esp. using technology, give them a clock and break the assignment up into parts. My favorite clock is this one. It both counts up and...