Posted in history, learning, lesson plans, primary sources, teaching on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m starting a week at the University of Colorado with Fritz Fischer and Maureen Festi. Fritz is a professor of history at the University of Northern Colorado who focuses on the idea of teaching future history educators. His goal is to better prepare teachers to understand content and quality instruction. Maureen is a fifth grade [...]
Posted in learning, lesson plans on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
During my second year as a middle school teacher, I encountered my first passively non-compliant student. (I’m sure there were some my first year but I was just too clueless!)
John was not a classroom management problem but he very clearly was choosing not to participate in class, not to complete assignments and seemed completely comfortable [...]
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 Google Earth, Google Maps, TIE, education, learning, teaching, technology integration on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve had the chance to present twice at the TIE conference here in Colorado. I know all the buzz is about NECC, its big names and huge number of sessions. But the TIE conference is an incredible place to be! It is perhaps the most teacher-friendly event I have ever attended. They really work to [...]
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.
I [...]
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