World History
Thanks to all of you who keep coming during the summer months. It is ironic that my summer vacation still has three weeks to go and most of you are heading back very shortly (don't worry as we go until late June!).
- Summer Blogging Blues
The academic year is intense. On top of teaching classes, professional and committee work dominates a lot of the time. Most academics welcome the coming of summer. I also welcome summer. I do not have to teach. Committee responsibilities are few. However,...
- Images And Citing Them
Yes t is a snow day and I am all caught up in my grading and have everything set for the next week, so hence times for a bunch of posts t oday. To that end the video above shows you how to quickly weed out images that do not have citations and how...
- Flipped School Clintondale's Videos
The PBS video on Clintondale in the post below is excellent especially since it addresses what to do with students who are more disadvantaged. Both George and I have to deal with that in our schools. One of the things I do is have more fluid...
- History Channel Video For Chichen Itza
There are a lot of videos on the History Channel including this nice short one on the Mayan pyramid Chichen Itza. If you are having your students do interactive searches where they have to get information, this would be a nice one to add. ...
- Easy And Noodle Bibs
So last night my oldest daughter was working on her timeline on Richard Nixon and she said she had to citations for her pictures. She started to login to her Blackboard site to go to the MLA maker site. Instead I had her Google "MLA maker"...
World History
Most Hit Posts from July
- Go Social Studies Go: a site that is broken up into your main themes and has useful information, videos about each one.
- Citations Made Easy: Easybib is a very easy site to use to create citations.
- History Channel Video for Chichen Itza: Yes I know the History Channel has veered away from good history, but there are plenty of great videos on the site.
- Summer Blogging Blues
The academic year is intense. On top of teaching classes, professional and committee work dominates a lot of the time. Most academics welcome the coming of summer. I also welcome summer. I do not have to teach. Committee responsibilities are few. However,...
- Images And Citing Them
Yes t is a snow day and I am all caught up in my grading and have everything set for the next week, so hence times for a bunch of posts t oday. To that end the video above shows you how to quickly weed out images that do not have citations and how...
- Flipped School Clintondale's Videos
The PBS video on Clintondale in the post below is excellent especially since it addresses what to do with students who are more disadvantaged. Both George and I have to deal with that in our schools. One of the things I do is have more fluid...
- History Channel Video For Chichen Itza
There are a lot of videos on the History Channel including this nice short one on the Mayan pyramid Chichen Itza. If you are having your students do interactive searches where they have to get information, this would be a nice one to add. ...
- Easy And Noodle Bibs
So last night my oldest daughter was working on her timeline on Richard Nixon and she said she had to citations for her pictures. She started to login to her Blackboard site to go to the MLA maker site. Instead I had her Google "MLA maker"...