World History
- Fakebook & Greek Gods
I have used Fakebook for a few years with my WHI kids to have them make comments between the gods. Fakebook lets students create comments and posts, upload pictures (or have them chosen from the Internet) and even add in video. If you watch...
- Rubrics For Every Assignment
One of the questions I get (and I get a lot of them) is how do you grade online assignments. My short answer is that I like rubrics, but there are as many rubrics as there are assignments. So one of the webpages I like is Ribistar which has...
- Cheating Using Technology
Normally I like to assume the best from my students, but I know they are not perfect. Some would say that is reason enough to not use anything other than paper, but I see enough kids in the halls copying each other's paper assignments or using...
- Remind Your Students To Do Homework During Summer School
With summer school starting shortly I wanted to tell you about one of the reasons why my students turned in their work at a higher level than ever before. I love it when a student e-mails me and asks the next day if I received the message. My answer...
- Contributions Of Greek Culture To Western Civilization
Well almost as soon as I did the post below, I found a very nice lesson plan of ancient Greeks who contribution to western civilization. It involves having students make a simple video. Since it also includes EXACTLY the descriptions...
World History
Collaborize Classroom
?CollaborizeClassroom? is a really neat site that?s a little like Black Board?s blog or assignment feature, but much more intuitive and it?s free. Their platform allows students to engage in conversations, ask and answer questions, collaborate on projects, and vote on issues and ideas. Here's how it works.
- Create a class, give it a name and add your students.
- Create an assignment. You can embed a video from You Tube, attach a pdf file, or paste in photographs.
- You can also choose assignments from a library of topics by discipline and copy it to your class.
Next, the assignment asks students to choose another achievement of the Roman Empire to research from a menu provided. They post their response and read the responses of their peers who researched different topics. I like Collaborize because it gets kids to do something with their reading or viewing without simply answering a few multiple choice questions.
- Fakebook & Greek Gods
I have used Fakebook for a few years with my WHI kids to have them make comments between the gods. Fakebook lets students create comments and posts, upload pictures (or have them chosen from the Internet) and even add in video. If you watch...
- Rubrics For Every Assignment
One of the questions I get (and I get a lot of them) is how do you grade online assignments. My short answer is that I like rubrics, but there are as many rubrics as there are assignments. So one of the webpages I like is Ribistar which has...
- Cheating Using Technology
Normally I like to assume the best from my students, but I know they are not perfect. Some would say that is reason enough to not use anything other than paper, but I see enough kids in the halls copying each other's paper assignments or using...
- Remind Your Students To Do Homework During Summer School
With summer school starting shortly I wanted to tell you about one of the reasons why my students turned in their work at a higher level than ever before. I love it when a student e-mails me and asks the next day if I received the message. My answer...
- Contributions Of Greek Culture To Western Civilization
Well almost as soon as I did the post below, I found a very nice lesson plan of ancient Greeks who contribution to western civilization. It involves having students make a simple video. Since it also includes EXACTLY the descriptions...