World History
- Egypt And Better Learning
So one of the things I have learned is that we remember something better if we see an image - or draw it. So here is an exercise my students carry out on ancient Egypt. It starts with watching a short screencast I made and then students have...
- Research Tools In A Google Drive Document
I watched this video from FreeTech4Teachers and was inspired to see more on how to research inside a Google Drive document. The best one is above. It shows the amazing things you can do by going to "Tools," and then "research." You can do things...
- Artwork For One And All
The National Gallery of Art and other museums like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have begun uploading and offering their artwork to the public to view and and download as they like. In a statement in The NY Times, National Gallery spokesperson, Deborah...
- How To Identify An Image
Fully half of our just recently released state exams have images attached to questions. Not surprisingly one thing I like students to do is to identify images as part of my assignments. To do this I have them use TinEye which allows you to...
- Pinterest And Collaborative Teams
I know that Ken made a post about Penterest a couple of months ago but I've just started using it and love it as a resource for our teams. For example, I am developing boards for each unit that we study in World 1. The one above...
World History
Identifying Unknown Images
I have spoken before about Tineye which allows you to identify unknown images either by uploading the image or pasting in the url to find it. Well now you can also do it using a Google search. Simply go to the "image" line at the top of the search page and then hit the camera icon and enter in the url or upload the picture. You can even use images that are NOT on the Internet. Above is a short video showing how both are done. I found the information on Google at Mindshift.
- Egypt And Better Learning
So one of the things I have learned is that we remember something better if we see an image - or draw it. So here is an exercise my students carry out on ancient Egypt. It starts with watching a short screencast I made and then students have...
- Research Tools In A Google Drive Document
I watched this video from FreeTech4Teachers and was inspired to see more on how to research inside a Google Drive document. The best one is above. It shows the amazing things you can do by going to "Tools," and then "research." You can do things...
- Artwork For One And All
The National Gallery of Art and other museums like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have begun uploading and offering their artwork to the public to view and and download as they like. In a statement in The NY Times, National Gallery spokesperson, Deborah...
- How To Identify An Image
Fully half of our just recently released state exams have images attached to questions. Not surprisingly one thing I like students to do is to identify images as part of my assignments. To do this I have them use TinEye which allows you to...
- Pinterest And Collaborative Teams
I know that Ken made a post about Penterest a couple of months ago but I've just started using it and love it as a resource for our teams. For example, I am developing boards for each unit that we study in World 1. The one above...