Posted in books, education, images, learning, lesson plans, literature, primary sources on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m at the TIE Conference in Copper Mountain and am sitting in with Gail Petri from the Library of Congress as she shares ideas about using fiction books to hook kids on primary sources. Some cool stuff so far. Basic overview of the the LOC site, some basic activities to introduce students looking at photographs.
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Posted in books, literature, reading, tip of the week on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
We all know that the more emotional connections we can create between our content and our students, the better the students retain and understand the content. Literature in all of its forms can help us do that.
This week’s tip is basically just a list of places online that can help you integrate literature with your [...]
Posted in books, teaching, technology integration on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I love books. No . . . really.
Love reading them. Buying them. Talking about them. I especially enjoy finding a good used book store.
And I’m convinced that the more I read, the better teacher I become. What I read should be a wide variety of topics that will help me do my job better - [...]
Thanks for dropping in! Feel free to poke around. Consider this a companion to my other site over at Social Studies Central. We'll talk about a variety of things including tech integration, Social Studies, whatever I happen to be reading and probably some other stuff.
