World History
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- A Short How To Flip Post
At the end of the month, George Coe and I are co-presenting on flipping the classroom. Below is the PowerPoint we will be using. The hardest thing to do is to cut what you want to lecture to ten or fewer minutes. To create the lecture watch...
- World History Powerpoints
I was looking for the Patterns of Interaction e-book and found this great set of PowerPoints to go along with the book. If you are using Google Drive, you can instantly make copies and them tailor them to your needs. Otherwise, download the...
- Wife Swap - Spartans And Athenians
Thanks to my fellow department member Tara Cook for this video on the lives of the Spartans and Athenians. If you are using Google Docs, then you can link the video to your assignment (even if you have already done it) or if you are doing a PowerPoint...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...
World History
Byzantine PowerPoint
My students will only see about one-third of the PowerPoint above since I have moved to many interactives (here is a simple one on Islam, for example) instead of lecture. But to let you see how powerful a Google Docs Presentation can be, I am putting up my entire PowerPoint. It includes videos (the first one on the Hagia Sophia only works if you go to youtube, but the others are fine). You can, of course, copy it and then tailor it to your own needs.
- Nearpod Vs. Powerpoint
Maybe you saw Jeff Feinstein's post about Nearpod a few days ago. I just tried it and love it. The cool thing about Nearpod is its interactivity. You simply upload a powerpoint presentation to Nearpod, add video clips, quizzes, polls or graphs and...
- A Short How To Flip Post
At the end of the month, George Coe and I are co-presenting on flipping the classroom. Below is the PowerPoint we will be using. The hardest thing to do is to cut what you want to lecture to ten or fewer minutes. To create the lecture watch...
- World History Powerpoints
I was looking for the Patterns of Interaction e-book and found this great set of PowerPoints to go along with the book. If you are using Google Drive, you can instantly make copies and them tailor them to your needs. Otherwise, download the...
- Wife Swap - Spartans And Athenians
Thanks to my fellow department member Tara Cook for this video on the lives of the Spartans and Athenians. If you are using Google Docs, then you can link the video to your assignment (even if you have already done it) or if you are doing a PowerPoint...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...