Posted in 21st century skills, civics, constitution, democracy, election, government, history, lesson plans, middle school, politics, social studies, tagged civics, government, history tech, lesson plans, politics, social studies, supreme court, wiebe on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, together with iCivics, Arizona State University an Georgetown University, have put together a handy site for teachers of government and civics. Called Our Courts, the site hosts a couple of online sims, links to lessons and videos and fictional situations that help kids understand their own constitutional rights.
Our Courts is web-based [...]
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Posted in civics, constitution, current events, democracy, election, government, history, lesson plans, politics, social studies, tip of the week, tagged civics, constitution, constitution day, current events, government, history, history tech, lesson plans, politics, social studies, wiebe on September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Constitution Day is an American federal holiday that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution and also recognizes all who have become citizens due to either coming of age or naturalization. It is always observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. The law establishing the holiday [...]
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Posted in civics, constitution, current events, democracy, election, government, history, images, news, photos, politics, social studies, technology integration, youtube, tagged government, history, history tech, inauguration, obama, politics, president, technology, wiebe on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Being the history junkie that I am, I spent most of yesterday flipping through cable channels, browsing online video sites, scanning transcripts of Obama’s speech, reading more about George Washington’s December 1776 quote, viewing updated images on Flickr, watching Youtube videos, messing with Google Earth and generally having a great time.
Came across a couple of [...]
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Posted in democracy, election, government, history, images, photos, politics, primary sources, social studies, tagged government, history, history tech, inauguration, obama, politics, president, wiebe on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many have spoken about how President Obama will use Web 2.0 tools to connect more easily with US citizens. You can begin to see this transition over time by looking at the Whitehouse.gov web site.
Interesting.
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Is this idea new? Or is it just me?
I understand the whole transition team idea and how important the period between November and January has become for Presidents – Elect. But never seen this before.
The story behind Obama’s successful move into the New Media arena (emails, Facebook, Twitter, online fundraising, etc) is now becoming public [...]
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