World History
- Arab Spring & French Revolution
The Choices Program at Brown University has an awesome interactive timeline on the Egyptian Revolution. It includes photographs, videos, and excellent maps. My AP World students are comparing the causes of the French Revolution with one of...
- Flipped Learning And Differentiation
Believe it or not the NYTimes has an opinion piece advocating the Flipped Classroom. But it is the quasi flipped classroom which I use a lot in our combined ESOL World History I class (which is a ESOL and standard education students combined in...
- Jeopardy Labs For Jeopardy Review Games
Talk about a fast learner. One of my "teacher-students," Rebecca Small, just created two Jeopardy games for reviewing ancient Egypt from Jeopardy Labs. When I asked where she had found out about it, she said one of her students told her about...
- Start The Video Where You Want
Up until now I have used Splicd to set my Youtube videos to where I want them for student viewing. Splicd still is useful if you want to have a beginning and an end of the video. As you can see above you need only go to the video, click...
- Summary Of Tunisian And Egyptian Events
Showing why the NYTimes is the best e-paper in the world, here is a wonderful summary of the events of the last few months in Tunisia and Egypt that you could share in parts on in its entirety with your students. It is a visual summary of the events,...
World History
Up to Date World Videos
If you ever want to bring your world history students up to date, one of the ways to do so is the Lede from the NYTimes. They get people to e-mail them video from hot spots around the world. Above is one from the 25th of January of protests in Egypt. The end of the video, for me, is interesting as once the protesters move on, it is back to the normal beeping and erratic driving which I witnessed when I was in Egypt last spring.
- Arab Spring & French Revolution
The Choices Program at Brown University has an awesome interactive timeline on the Egyptian Revolution. It includes photographs, videos, and excellent maps. My AP World students are comparing the causes of the French Revolution with one of...
- Flipped Learning And Differentiation
Believe it or not the NYTimes has an opinion piece advocating the Flipped Classroom. But it is the quasi flipped classroom which I use a lot in our combined ESOL World History I class (which is a ESOL and standard education students combined in...
- Jeopardy Labs For Jeopardy Review Games
Talk about a fast learner. One of my "teacher-students," Rebecca Small, just created two Jeopardy games for reviewing ancient Egypt from Jeopardy Labs. When I asked where she had found out about it, she said one of her students told her about...
- Start The Video Where You Want
Up until now I have used Splicd to set my Youtube videos to where I want them for student viewing. Splicd still is useful if you want to have a beginning and an end of the video. As you can see above you need only go to the video, click...
- Summary Of Tunisian And Egyptian Events
Showing why the NYTimes is the best e-paper in the world, here is a wonderful summary of the events of the last few months in Tunisia and Egypt that you could share in parts on in its entirety with your students. It is a visual summary of the events,...