World History
- Ap World Essays: Ideas From Ap World Chat
[View the story "#WHAPchat: DBQs" on Storify] Here are some great ideas about teaching AP World essays from Angela Lee's AP World Twitter Chat. You can access the chat with this hashtag #APWHchat. One teacher shared a link to her amazing page with...
- Saving Twitter & Other Sites To Storify
So I am sitting in a library trying to finish the third editing of my book and dealing with a peer review comment that asked how we can save Twitter. So to show that I too can learn new tricks, Frank Franz mentioned Storify to me and instantly...
- To Flip Or Not To Flip
[View the story "To Flip or Not to Flip" on Storify]The Social Studies twitter chat (#sschat) discussed flipping the classroom tonight. Keith Hughes (Hip Hughes History) moderated. I storified, some, though not all of the tweets from the chat. The...
- Ap World Test Results Preview
Here's a preview of AP World scores from the College Board's Trevor Packer. He tweets the overall results for each of the AP tests. I storified the four or five tweets he made about the World History exam. Essay scores, apparently, are among the...
- Nixon In China, 40 Years Later
One of my favorite sites on the NYTimes is the Lede which has a lot of "man on the street" video from chaotic scenes around the world (think Arab Spring). But the most recent post is a short (3 minutes) narrated video of Nixon visiting China 40...
World History
Storify and Telling a Story Using Social Media
George's post has me searching for Storify items as I have never used it before, but am incredibly intrigued.
The idea is that students can research on the web for information that is found on social media and then create a story. Video, G+, Twitter, Facebook and several other media can be used. You can also add in titles and comments and easily manipulate the order. Here is a written document for how to use it and above is a short how to video.
Below is an example of Storify telling about the Arab Spring. Think about the possibilities!
The idea is that students can research on the web for information that is found on social media and then create a story. Video, G+, Twitter, Facebook and several other media can be used. You can also add in titles and comments and easily manipulate the order. Here is a written document for how to use it and above is a short how to video.
Below is an example of Storify telling about the Arab Spring. Think about the possibilities!
- Ap World Essays: Ideas From Ap World Chat
[View the story "#WHAPchat: DBQs" on Storify] Here are some great ideas about teaching AP World essays from Angela Lee's AP World Twitter Chat. You can access the chat with this hashtag #APWHchat. One teacher shared a link to her amazing page with...
- Saving Twitter & Other Sites To Storify
So I am sitting in a library trying to finish the third editing of my book and dealing with a peer review comment that asked how we can save Twitter. So to show that I too can learn new tricks, Frank Franz mentioned Storify to me and instantly...
- To Flip Or Not To Flip
[View the story "To Flip or Not to Flip" on Storify]The Social Studies twitter chat (#sschat) discussed flipping the classroom tonight. Keith Hughes (Hip Hughes History) moderated. I storified, some, though not all of the tweets from the chat. The...
- Ap World Test Results Preview
Here's a preview of AP World scores from the College Board's Trevor Packer. He tweets the overall results for each of the AP tests. I storified the four or five tweets he made about the World History exam. Essay scores, apparently, are among the...
- Nixon In China, 40 Years Later
One of my favorite sites on the NYTimes is the Lede which has a lot of "man on the street" video from chaotic scenes around the world (think Arab Spring). But the most recent post is a short (3 minutes) narrated video of Nixon visiting China 40...