World History
Years ago I worked with a group that was trying to get interactive textbooks up and free online. We managed to get the textbook up, but not the funding. But, for those of you who want to share a great e-textbook with your students, here is our ancient world history textbook. I have my students use it as another resource, esp when their main one goes down a couple of times a year.
- Content Area Textbooks: Friends Or Foes?
I have not had many teaching history related posts lately. As such, I am happy to have chanced upon an older ERIC Digest post from 1989 that deals with the topic of textbooks. It is Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes? It was written by Patricia Tefft...
- Ditch The Textbook Facebook Page
If you read most textbooks, they are often (aside from AP ones) little other than the state required "essential knowledge" with verbs thrown in. I believe they are popular because they are easy as in a teacher telling his/her students to just read...
- Our Two Month Ipad E-textbook Pilot
Last November Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked me to pilot their new iPad e-textbooks which we did for two months ending just this past Monday. The pilot was for Patterns of Interaction and I must admit the first day we had them there were some collective...
- Interactive Online Maps
I am lucky enough to have interactive online maps in my e-textbook. But if you want them for free, here are a bunch from McGraw Hill's world history text. Since they are interactive you get to see items such as the path of Alexander the...
- E-textbook
I am huge proponent of moving textbooks online, especially since the major textbook companies have finally figured it out and now have a number of digital ancillaries that come with the books. But every one in while they do server maintenance or have...
World History
Online History e-Textbook
- Content Area Textbooks: Friends Or Foes?
I have not had many teaching history related posts lately. As such, I am happy to have chanced upon an older ERIC Digest post from 1989 that deals with the topic of textbooks. It is Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes? It was written by Patricia Tefft...
- Ditch The Textbook Facebook Page
If you read most textbooks, they are often (aside from AP ones) little other than the state required "essential knowledge" with verbs thrown in. I believe they are popular because they are easy as in a teacher telling his/her students to just read...
- Our Two Month Ipad E-textbook Pilot
Last November Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked me to pilot their new iPad e-textbooks which we did for two months ending just this past Monday. The pilot was for Patterns of Interaction and I must admit the first day we had them there were some collective...
- Interactive Online Maps
I am lucky enough to have interactive online maps in my e-textbook. But if you want them for free, here are a bunch from McGraw Hill's world history text. Since they are interactive you get to see items such as the path of Alexander the...
- E-textbook
I am huge proponent of moving textbooks online, especially since the major textbook companies have finally figured it out and now have a number of digital ancillaries that come with the books. But every one in while they do server maintenance or have...