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Shane Freeman

Key words=Common Craft, Videos, Social Studies, Middle School, 19th Century History, Fu... - 11 views

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  • Shane Freeman on 31 Dec 10
     
    The final videos can all be found here.  I hesitate to embed any in the post because I know I would be prone to pick the "best" one.  Please click on the link and randomly select one to watch! There are two pages of videos-and hey-leave a comment or a thumbs up!  I have to say, that after watching the kids make these, the final products just don't reflect the amount of work that is needed.  What I mean is that you shouldn't watch them and say "My kids could do that in a couple of days."  It took 360 minutes of class time to produce those 1-2 minute videos!! One thing I wished we had done is to write transitions so that the different videos linked together better.  I inadvertently led them to make videos on topics that come across as standing alone in time instead of being influenced and apart of other events and movements. Other good resources: Art Titzel Eric Langhorst John Fladd Karen McMillan Greg Kulowiec Mr. Canton Mr. Fogel Mr. Canton Authors write for different purposes.* The writing process is consistent across disciplines.* Technology is a tool for collecting, organizing, creating, and presenting informatio Tags: 6 COMMENTS SO FAR ↓ aimee // Dec 27, 2010 at 8:56 pm These videos really are terrific! I was able to pop in briefly and watch them being created (on Ustream)- such an amazing process! They are so deceptively simple and enchanting, yet require a myriad of skills. Well done! And, I've learned so much Reply Tweets that mention New Post: Key words=Common Craft, Videos, Social Studies, Middle School, 19th Century History, Fu... by -- Topsy.com // Dec 27, 2010 at 10:59 pm [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by mrsdi, Edtech Feeds. Edtech Feeds said: New Post: Key words=Common Craft, Videos, Social Studies, Middle School, 19th Century History, Fu… http://bit.ly/g9YyDH by @paulbogush [...] Reply Sally // Dec 28, 2010 at 10:39 am This is great! When we get back to school the students are finishing up t
David Hilton

Is History history? - 35 views

I am creating a site you and your students might enjoy and perhaps add to. ahaafoundation.org is an online course in the history of art around the world. You can jump in anywhere. I would love to f...

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started by David Hilton on 23 Dec 09 8 follow-ups, last by David Hilton on 13 Jan 10
David Hilton

History Classes Collaboration Project - 105 views

They're probably a bit young Ginger to interact with the high school history students on the network. It might be a worry if there were misunderstanding or other problems given the age gap. Eventu...

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started by David Hilton on 25 Sep 09 19 follow-ups, last by David Hilton on 27 Oct 09
Annabel Astbury

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 10 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...school-history-gove-schama-tv

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shared by Annabel Astbury on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
  • If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
  • Teachers developed new methods, shifting away from chronology and narrative to topics and themes, where the emphasis was placed on "skills" of analysis over the regurgitation of facts.
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  • . History in schools, they argue
  • without providing any connecting narrative thread that explains their relationship with each other. The solution is a return to narrative history, to a big story that will organise and make sense of historical experience.
  • Nonetheless, it remains an announcement that tells us more about the contradictions of government thinking and its reductive view of the humanities and social sciences than it does about the state of history teaching in our schools.
  • I agree with Schama that the real public value of history-teaching in schools (as in universities) lies in its capacity to re-animate our civil society and produce an engaged and capable citizenry. I disagree that good story-telling will get you there
  • History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
  • We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
  • For the creative and innovative teacher it may have been something of a constraint, but most now agree it led to a ‘golden age’ of history teaching in primary schools in the 1990s and ensured every child covered a coherent history syllabus from 11-14 without repeating topics. It also spawned a generation of excellent and accessible teaching materials and encouraged heritage organisations to provide for a standard history curriculum
  • Regardless this return to grand narrative and national myth goes against the very progress we as academic historians have made. History is more to do with how we think and evaluate things, the tools we use to come to conclusions than about dates and conveniently accessible stories self legitimatising the status quo.
Joseph Phelan

Resources for History Teachers - 48 views

Jeremy Please do put Bob Maloy in touch with me. He can call or write jphelan@neh.gov or 202-60-6374. As far as the World History resources go, we are a working on it but will not be ready for thi...

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started by Jeremy Greene on 26 Apr 11 4 follow-ups, last by Joseph Phelan on 24 Jul 11
Matt Esterman

National Curriculum - 38 views

In Year 11 students have to complete a research assignment that is mandated by the syllabus, however at our school we basically gave them the list of personalities they could study. I was pushing f...

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started by Matt Esterman on 30 May 09 6 follow-ups, last by Matt Esterman on 05 Jul 09
GoEd Online

Make Teaching History Fun with Video - 20 views

www.goedonline.com/eaching-history-fun-with-video

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  • GoEd Online on 03 Jul 12
     
    I LOVE HISTORY! But do your students? Chances are some of them might think it's boring - hours of reading and memorizing dates. And, let's face it; history can be a little dry sometimes.
Shane Freeman

PERSONAL HISTORY: AN AUTHENTIC LEARNING GENEALOGY PROJECT - TeachersPayTeachers.com - 7 views

www.teacherspayteachers.com/...rning-Genealogy-Project-845897

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  • Shane Freeman on 23 Sep 13
     
    "This Multidisciplinary unit enables learners and instructors to make direct connections between themselves and the history around them by tracking their family's history through time and space."
David Hilton

Making of America - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 07 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    "Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
Simon Miles

History Animated - 7 views

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shared by Simon Miles on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 21 Jul 09
     
    Major battles in American military explained with the use of animation.
  • Simon Miles on 12 Sep 10
     
    "History Animated is a fantastic resource for teachers of US History. The animations will make great supplements to classroom instruction. The animations are a significant improvement over drawing or pointing to places on a map. The site currently features animations on the Pacific War, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Britain.
David Hilton

Using the group - 30 views

Thanks to those of you who are posting those excellent resources to the group. I'm sure other people are finding them useful in their teaching and in student research. I just wanted to let you all...

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started by David Hilton on 08 Jul 09 1 follow-up, last by David Hilton on 11 Sep 09
David Hilton

Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Archive - 9 views

www.dancarlin.com/...hharchive

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Jan 10
     
    This is the latest episode from the Hardcore History program, a podcast updated every month or two focussing on historical topics in often novel ways. Dan Carlin has a Bachelor degree in military history and his focus is on military and social history, which I and my students find interesting. I think sometimes his versions of history can be spurious (the latest one in particular) yet the value of podcasts for student learning are enormous. I make my students download iTunes and get them through that. Happy listening!
Matt Esterman

How to teach source evaluation? - 70 views

Dear Ben, Theatre is always a great way to teach anything -- especially history. Living history programs and projects are everywhere. You can read a short article I wrote on how to create an his...

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started by David Hilton on 27 Jul 09 6 follow-ups, last by Matt Esterman on 20 Sep 09
Nick Makin

National Curriculum Resources - 15 views

We are holding off on resources at the moment. I have our faculty working on the unit plans before we look at the texts available. I feel many of the publishers have tried to jump the gun, and publ...

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started by David Hilton on 13 May 11 1 follow-up, last by Nick Makin on 14 May 11
Cindy Marston

Create Your Own Interactive Primary Source Document Activities - 24 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...r-own-interactive-primary.html

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  • Docs Teach offers seven free tools that teachers can use to create interactive learning activities based on primary source documents and images. The seven tools are Finding a Sequence, Focusing on Details, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data.
  • Cindy Marston on 03 Dec 12
     
    National Archives tool - Docs Teach offers seven free tools that teachers can use to create interactive learning activities based on primary source documents and images. The seven tools are Finding a Sequence, Focusing on Details, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data.
Simon Miles

HistoryWorld - History and Timelines - 12 views

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shared by Simon Miles on 12 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Simon Miles on 12 Jul 10
     
    "Historyworld's aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. Written by Bamber Gascoigne, it consists of about 300 narratives ( the alphabetical list runs from Aegean Civilization to Zoroastrianism) and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines."
Simon Miles

History of Cuba - 6 views

www.historyofcuba.com/cuba.htm

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  • Simon Miles on 16 Aug 10
     
    "Our mission is to provide a clear and detailed journey through the themes, concepts, people and ideas that make up Cuban history."
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...ber-them-the-1914-18-war-today

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
David Hilton

Dan Carlin - Common Sense Archive - 3 views

www.dancarlin.com/...csarchive

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shared by David Hilton on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 17 Mar 10
     
    A fascinating discussion on the current Texas history textbook controversy. Dan makes some awesome points. If you like it I recommend to you his podcast Hardcore History. Very useful with students.
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