Posted in Google Earth, change, cool, history, ipod, simulation, social studies, video games, tagged games, history, history tech, ipod, ipod touch, social studies, video games, wiebe on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A quick post today that I hope to expand more in a few weeks.
If you’ve been coming to History Tech for a while, you already know that I’m a big believer in the power of games and simulations to increase learning.
And now, I’m becoming a huge fan of the iPod Touch as a gaming platform.
There [...]
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Posted in Video, democracy, government, politics, social studies, technology integration, youtube, tagged civics, democracy, government, history tech, politics, social studies, Video, wiebe, youtube on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was about seven years ago when the US government made an early attempt to consolidate its online resources in one place. Other than its clunky name – firstgov.gov – it was a pretty useful tool.
That site has moved on to usa.gov and has become even more helpful. But the government folks have stepped it [...]
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Posted in cool, digital literacy, historical thinking, history, lesson plans, simulation, social studies, video games, tagged games, history, history tech, lesson plans, simulations, video games, wiebe on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Center for History and New Media is one of the most useful tools around for history teachers. They’ve been instrumental in creating the National History Education Clearinghouse, History Matters, Historical Thinking Matters and Zotero.
And now a couple of CHNM people are branching out into games by creating Playing History: Your Source for Historical Games [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, Google Earth, Google Maps, geography, maps, tagged geography, Google Earth, Google Maps, history tech, maps, wiebe on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My good friend Tammy Worcester hooked me up with a great site yesterday called Scribble Maps. It’s kinda like Google Maps on performance-enhancers.
Lets you and kids edit an online map at the same time, print it, save it, send it to Google Earth, embed on web sites, save as a GPS exchange file or email [...]
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Posted in archeology, artifacts, books, boston, geography, history, social studies, tagged books, history, history tech, outliers, social studies, wiebe on May 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m thinking out loud this morning. So I’m not sure where this will go. Bear with me.
On the recommendation of Adelyn Soellner over at Hutchinson High School, I breezed through Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell this weekend. Incredibly interesting!
Gladwell’s idea is that while skill, ability and hard work all impact success, there [...]
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