World History
Two years ago I asked to pilot an e-book for students at my school. We ended up doing it with all juniors. One other middle school also did it and that spread to 16 schools in our county this past year. Now we are almost definitely going to do it at all high schools thanks to the work of a ton of teachers, administrators, and, of course students. Here is a video from a DC television channel tonight which shows some of the things e-books can do (and is rather balanced in its presentation) and here is a cable television clip one of one of my students, myself and my class doing a lot of the same.
- Reminder Texts For Your Students
Three years ago I started telling teachers in my tech integration course about Remind101 so it was kind of cool tonight when I found out a third high school has now shown their entire school the site based on word of mouth that has been passed around...
- This Blog Continues All Summer
Virginia does two things that I'd love to see changed. 1) We have our state end of the year exams several weeks before the end of the year and 2) Our state legislature (both parties) consistently say they are for "education first," but refuse...
- Ipad Help
Back in November I was asked to run an iPad program with the new iPad version of Patterns of Interaction (WHI/WHII). They also have one for US history called The Americans and Understanding Government. At last count, approval of the entire...
- Digital Books & A Little Self Promotion
Today the DC metro affiliate of NBC news came to my classroom (and one other) to talk about digital textbooks which you can guess that I have been pushing for years up until this year when our entire county (27 high schools) went digital from 6-12th...
- Consulting For Your Department, School Or District
Have led 15 district-wide, in-services for Fairfax County, VA (12th largest district in the US), as well as international conferences such as the Global Education Conference. Initiated, piloted and implemented e-books for Fairfax County Public School...
World History
e-books
- Reminder Texts For Your Students
Three years ago I started telling teachers in my tech integration course about Remind101 so it was kind of cool tonight when I found out a third high school has now shown their entire school the site based on word of mouth that has been passed around...
- This Blog Continues All Summer
Virginia does two things that I'd love to see changed. 1) We have our state end of the year exams several weeks before the end of the year and 2) Our state legislature (both parties) consistently say they are for "education first," but refuse...
- Ipad Help
Back in November I was asked to run an iPad program with the new iPad version of Patterns of Interaction (WHI/WHII). They also have one for US history called The Americans and Understanding Government. At last count, approval of the entire...
- Digital Books & A Little Self Promotion
Today the DC metro affiliate of NBC news came to my classroom (and one other) to talk about digital textbooks which you can guess that I have been pushing for years up until this year when our entire county (27 high schools) went digital from 6-12th...
- Consulting For Your Department, School Or District
Have led 15 district-wide, in-services for Fairfax County, VA (12th largest district in the US), as well as international conferences such as the Global Education Conference. Initiated, piloted and implemented e-books for Fairfax County Public School...