World History
Google Page on Japan
Google (thanks to HedaWood's comment below for alerting me) has set up quite an amazing page on Japan. Yes, it is mostly for those in Japan, but it does have 47 videso of the quake as well as current news that might help you teach the subject. When I spoke about it in class yesterday, I also mentioned that the Asian and European markets were down and, as you can now see, so were the US ones at the end of the day.
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Sea Of Japan Vs. East Sea Controversy
There is a bill in my Virginia legislature co-sponsored by Delegate Tim Hugo (R) and Senators Dick Black (R) and Dave Marsden (D) to force all localities to use the "East Sea" when using "Sea of Japan" in our textbooks. This is a nice example of...
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Google Drive Templates
My son is working on an assignment on Jamestown (4th grade history in VA is VA history) and is writing a newspaper account about 1619. So we found this link to Google Drive documents' templates. But it also has links to Presentations...
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Most Hit Sites In September
Hard to believe the first month of school is already over. As always thanks for coming to this blog page. We had 42,000+ page views (including the US and government blogs) last month including 14,000 on this site alone The top three...
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Netvibes Instead Of Igoogle
Google recently announced that they are jettisoning their iGoogle page in November 2013. I can't tell you how much I depend on that page as I am always on Google and it makes for an easy way to see my news feeds. I have, though, found...
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Sharing Igoogle Links
I've written about the weblinks' aggregator page called igoogle (see how to video below). It is great as I can quickly see a number of blogs that I follow. If you have an igoogle page and want to see what I follow, then go to this...
World History