Posted in cool, digital literacy, images, media literacy, social networks, technology integration on July 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I had the chance to work with a small group of middle school teachers the last two days as they developed teaching activities in geography and history. One of the questions that came up as we were creating placemark descriptions in Google Earth was
Where can I find good images that are copyright free?
It’s a common [...]
Posted in Google Earth, Google Maps, cool, geography, google, google docs, google tools, history, literature, technology integration on July 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m in love with Google Earth.
There . . . I said it.
It can add so much to a teacher’s instruction, it’s hard for me to see how anyone could go a whole school year without using it. It is one of those essential 21st century tools we’re always talking about. And yes, Skype and Twitter [...]
Posted in Google Earth, Google Maps, cool, geography, social studies, teaching on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay . . . it’s actually Where the Hell is Matt? but since I’m trying to sell this to middle school teachers (and their administrators!), I’m toning it down a bit.
Matt is an unemployed former video game designer who can’t dance. Well . . . he can dance a bit. Just one dance. He’s own [...]
Posted in cool, education, history, learning, primary sources, social studies on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I love del.icio.us.
I started using it several years ago as a simple online favorites account. It’s become more powerful and much more useful to me over the years.
I often use it as my first search engine of choice, over Google and other tools. By searching del.icio.us tags instead of Google keywords, the results I find [...]
Posted in cool, physics, science, video games on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay . . . absolutely nothing to do with history or social studies but it is kinda techy so I’m passing it on. You’ll just have to deal with it. And I know once you play the game, you’ll be hooked. Thank me later!
The game is an online Flash game called Magic Pen and came [...]
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