World History
- Ap Score Calculator
Every year I tell my kids that they have to get a 60% on my tests and the final to be in the 3 range and slightly more than half on the FRQs. Well this AP score calculator by AP Haven does a pretty good job of proving me correct, except that it...
- Twitter Warm-up
So I always have a meet and greet on our first day of school, but tomorrow, thanks to @dougzywiol I am going more high tech (imagine that!) and having the kids Tweet their answers. To do that yourself you can either create your own hashtag...
- Using Social Media In The Classroom
I am thinking about having my religions class participate in a live blog next semester and maybe tweeting about religious issues using a hash tag I create for the class. Here are the reflections of a graduate school teacher who had his kids use Twitter...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...
- Instant Reponse
Two years ago fellow blogger Frank Franz turned me onto Polleverywhere.com where students can answer multiple choice questions using their phones. For those who do are not allowed to have their students text, they can use gopollgo.com. The...
World History
Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not, Doug is pairing those kids up into groups. Doug asks his students a question to begin each class (he teaches US and government) and then the kids answer using his @DougZywiol in their text (as opposed to using a hashtag which would do the same thing). What is great is that his students have to think (key word) and then write succinctly to answer his students, but it also serves as a way to quickly see what others are thinking. I should add that Doug has always been a tech integrating teacher, but until this year was a "phone phobic," but very quickly has grown to love it. If you want to see what he is doing, look at the link. I might add that some of his students from when he was in North Carolina are also participating!
- Ap Score Calculator
Every year I tell my kids that they have to get a 60% on my tests and the final to be in the 3 range and slightly more than half on the FRQs. Well this AP score calculator by AP Haven does a pretty good job of proving me correct, except that it...
- Twitter Warm-up
So I always have a meet and greet on our first day of school, but tomorrow, thanks to @dougzywiol I am going more high tech (imagine that!) and having the kids Tweet their answers. To do that yourself you can either create your own hashtag...
- Using Social Media In The Classroom
I am thinking about having my religions class participate in a live blog next semester and maybe tweeting about religious issues using a hash tag I create for the class. Here are the reflections of a graduate school teacher who had his kids use Twitter...
- Learning Through Spatial Organization
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell...
- Instant Reponse
Two years ago fellow blogger Frank Franz turned me onto Polleverywhere.com where students can answer multiple choice questions using their phones. For those who do are not allowed to have their students text, they can use gopollgo.com. The...