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Jeremy Greene

World History Connected: EJournal of Learning and Teaching - 6 views

worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/index.html

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  • David Hilton on 14 Jan 10
     
    Has articles and some source material links related to World History. The site (run out of University of Illinois, by the looks) has a strong focus on 'big history.' I hadn't encountered this term before; it seems to mean looking at history not through civilisations but rather periods or regions. If that description is wrong and someone could provide more accuracy on 'big history' that would be cool.
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    World History Connected: The EJournal of Learning and Teaching [www.worldhistoryconnected.org] World history poses extraordinary demands upon those who teach it, challenging the talent of experienced instructors as well as to those new to the field. World History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to deepen the engagement and understanding of world history: students, college instructors, high school teachers, leaders of teacher education programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians. For all these readers, WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up to date on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning and teaching methods and practices, offers readers rich teaching resources, and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free worldwide. It is published by the University of Illinois Press, and its institutional home is Washington State University. Editors: Heather Streets, Washington State University and Tom Laichas, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. Associate Editor: Tim Weston, University of Colorado. Funding for World History Connected, Inc. has been provided by The College Board and private donations. Should you wish to contribute, please contact Heidi Roupp, Executive Director [Heidiroupp@aol.com]
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Check out past issues by using the index key. The home page is always the current issue.
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    The journal focuses on the New World History (looking at the world at a global scale across time) as opposed to the one civilization at a time approach. See the World History AP course description for an example of what this means: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/worldhistory/ap-cd-worldhist-0708.pdf David, as an Australian you are at Ground Zero of Big History since its leader is an Australian = David Christian. Christian's _Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History_ is the one book to read on the subject. This article well covers it: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whc/3.1/christian.html Google David Christian, Big History for more
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    Again, the journal is not specifically focused on Big History but on the New World History, but it did have one issue on Big History as its forum: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/ More links than you probably want here about Big History: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/maunu2.html This month's forum is on Latin America. Other forums range the gamut of world history.
  • David Hilton on 18 Nov 10
     
    Thanks very much Jeremy. I'll check it out!
David Hilton

World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 1 | David Christian: What's the Use of "Big History?" - 9 views

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  • David Hilton on 15 Dec 10
     
    Our new National Curriculum takes a world history approach, which is a new direction for history in my State. This is an interesting argument for big-picture, as opposed to civilisational or thematic, approaches to conceptualising history. 
David Hilton

Big History Project: Apply Now - 22 views

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  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 11
     
    Applications for an innovative new approach to teaching history.
puzznbuzzus

Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views

Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The...

english quiz online

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Bob Maloy

What Are Your Childhood Memories Of Big News Events? : NPR - 1 views

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  • Bob Maloy on 11 Feb 19
     
    Think back to a time when you were growing up and something big was going on in the world. What did you hear about it? What misconceptions did you have? We want to hear your story.
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.
Kay Cunningham

Digital publishing: Google's big book case | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...displaystory.cfm

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  • Kay Cunningham on 05 Sep 09
     
    'Google has a big economic incentive to ensure that its online library is widely available: it makes most of its money from search advertising, so the more people that use its services, including the online book archive, the better. It also has a legal incentive to watch its step. The agreement stipulates that institutional subscription prices must be low enough to ensure that the public has "broad access" to digital books, while at the same time earning market rates for copyright owners. So if lots of libraries refuse to sign up for Google's service because it is too costly, the company could be slapped with a lawsuit.'
GoEd Online

10 Election 2012 Teaching Resources You Should Know About - 8 views

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  • GoEd Online on 19 Oct 12
     
    Election 2012 is all over the news and, with just a few short weeks remaining until the "big day," your students are probably asking tons of questions about this exciting process. If you're looking for great teaching resources on voting, the candidates and/or the Electoral College, you've come to the right place!
Daniel Ballantyne

ADE Wrap-up - 4 views

www.thethinkingstick.com/ade-wrap-up

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  • Daniel Ballantyne on 16 Apr 10
     
    A big part about ADE is creating something within your group. They call it challenge based learning.....I'd call it getting creative!We....teachers....do not get creative very often....do not take the time to get creative. I mean really creative.That's what we were able to do at the ADE conference.
Nate Merrill

World History: The Big Eras (book) - 14 views

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  • Nate Merrill on 29 Jul 11
     
    A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students
Jeremy Greene

Teaching History's Teaching Guides - 2 views

teachinghistory.org/...teaching-guides

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  • Jeremy Greene on 14 Oct 12
     
    Lots of helpful essays here on how to teach various things big and small: from writing thesis statements and analyzing political cartoons to forming concepts and using primary sources
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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  • 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.
David Hilton

Crash Course World History - 29 views

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  • Jeremy Greene on 30 May 12
     
    A fast, fun overview of world history content. Comparable in some ways to The Millennium series by CNN. Some think this would be good for "flipping" the classroom. I happen to disagree - since it is too fast. Better for review imo.
  • David Hilton on 20 Jun 13
     
    Entertaining and informative series on topics in world history.
  • HistoryGrl14 . on 25 Jun 13
     
    My students LOVE LOVE LOVE this series! I use them as unit openers in my honors world history class to previw the big ideas and hook them to that unit. I create higher order thinking type questions they answer after or questions where they predict things about the unit. But the videos are awesome!
Aaron Palm

Socialist Party of America - 5 views

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsocialismP.htm

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  • Upton Sinclair, letter to Norman Thomas (25th September, 1951)
  • American People will take Socialis
  • m, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End Poverty in California" I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use at
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  • tacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
Deven Black

Big Map The Bronx - 0 views

www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/...index.htm

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  • Deven Black on 05 Aug 09
     
    Click on any of the neighborhoods and you go to a page of very good photographs of the area, some of them with historic value.
David Hilton

Archaeological Service - 0 views

www.suffolk.gov.uk/...Archaeology

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  • David Hilton on 05 Jul 09
     
    Those folk in Suffolk must be big into their archaeology. Their County Council runs this site which focusses on archaeology in the area. Has quite a few links and also information on sites in the area.
Annabel Astbury

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time - 1 views

www.beyondspaceandtime.org/...index.html

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  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    This looks very cool. Quite big (2G) but maybe you can talk to the ICT department... I saw a similar thing for Ancient Rome on Google Earth but you need a powerful computer to run it and my laptop wasn't up to the job. Gen-Y is so visual, things like this can be great tools.
David Hilton

Digital Librarian: Images - 0 views

www.digital-librarian.com/images.html

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  • David Hilton on 22 Jun 09
     
    A MASSIVE number of links to sites with images related to all areas and periods of history. You might need a spare week or two to go through all of them though. Gee, the internet's big!
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