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rachelworman

Help! Need teacher advice for my college class! - 5 views

I am doing an assignment for one of my teaching classes. Please help me out by answering at least one of my questions. I would love to have a discussion with you! 1. What advice do you have for a ...

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Ian Gabrielson

'Mr Men' teacher hits back at Michael Gove | Politics | guardian.co.uk - 6 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...mr-men-teacher-michael-gove

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 13 May 13
     
    "arr writes: "Gove and his advisers - either through stupidity or mischievousness - failed to place me, my website, or the lesson into its appropriate context. His criticisms betray a lack of knowledge, understanding, and interpretation that would make a GCSE history student blush with shame.""
Aaron Shaw

Popular: Did Marie-Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake"? - 10 views

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  • in fact, Marie-Antoinette was a generous patron of charity and other members of the royal family were often embarrassed or irritated by her habit of bursting into tears when she heard of the plight of the suffering poor. There's also a problem with dates. During Louis the Sixteenth's time as king, there was only one case of bread shortages in Paris and that was shortly after his coronation. Marie-Antoinette was eighteen at the time and when she heard about the people's unhappiness at the food situation, she wrote a letter about it back to her mother in Austria, in which she said, "We are more obliged than ever to work for the people's happiness. The King seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget". Marie-Antoinette's personality therefore seems to have been the exact opposite of someone who would joke about the starving poor.
  • The story of a princess joking "let them eat cake" had actually been told many years before Marie-Antoinette ever arrived in France, as a young princess of fourteen in 1770. Her brother-in-law, the Count of Provence, who hated her, later said that he heard the story as a child, long before his brother ever married Marie-Antoinette. The count claimed that the version he heard was that the woman who made the comment had been his great-great-great grandmother, Maria-Teresa of Spain, who advised peasants to eat pie crust (or brioche) during bread shortages. A French socialite, the Countess of Boigne, said she'd heard that it had been Louis the Sixteenth's bitter aunt, Princess Victoria, and the great philosopher, Rousseau, wrote that he had heard the "let them eat cake" story about an anonymous great princess. Rousseau wrote this story in 1737 - eighteen years before Marie-Antoinette was even born!
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      Aaron Shaw on 01 May 12
       
      This is quite interesting. Many of my AP Euro students enjoy thinking it was the queen. This will give them something to "chew" on, and allow for a teachable moment. As another great Philosophe suggested we should accept nothing as truth except our own existance.
  • Others think that because the French Revolution was able to dress itself up as the force that brought freedom and equality to Europe, it had to justify its many acts of violence and terror. Executing Marie-Antoinette at the age of thirty-seven and leaving her two children as shivering, heart-broken orphans in the terrifying Temple prison, suggested that the Revolution was a lot more complicated than its supporters like to claim. However, if Marie-Antoinette is painted as stupid, deluded, out-of-touch, spoiled and selfish, then we're likely to feel a lot less pity when it comes to studying her death. If that was the republicans' intention, then they did a very good job. Two hundred years later and the poor woman is still stuck with a terrible reputation, and a catchphrase, that she certainly doesn't deserve.
  • Ed Webb on 01 May 12
     
    As a student and teacher of, among other things, propaganda and censorship, I think this is a great example for students to play with in thinking about how 'truth' gets established, politically and historically. In discussing nationalism I often talk about the importance of political myth in establishing identities, and here is a powerful example of a myth that became hegemonic.
GoEd Online

The Teacher's eToolbox: Web Tools or Treasures? - 8 views

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  • GoEd Online on 11 Sep 12
     
    If I could only pack three tools in my eToolbox… [this is like the game "If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring three things," except there is no island. Bear with me.]… I would choose Twitter, Evernote and Dropbox.
edutopia .org

Encouraging Students to Find an Audience When They Write | Edutopia - 9 views

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  • edutopia .org on 09 Dec 11
     
    "He's arguing with the men who ran the camp, the one in Cambodia. He was 14 when the Khmer Rouge took over and he went to prison camp. His whole family was killed, more than 60 people. He never tells us what happened to him there, but we hear everything when he's out in the street shouting. I can't get it out of my mind sometimes."
HistoryGrl14 .

▶ Inspiring Motivational Video: Cross the Line® (schools) - YouTube - 16 views

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motivational cross the line AP Human Geography

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 24 Jan 14
     
    I've used this during this school year to motivate and inspire my AP students, then I replay it every now and then to bring the motivation back. Kids really like it!!! I even made a bulletin board with the slogan on it and am having kids write on it what they are doing to "cross the line" to make it interactive!
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!
hpbookmarks

Center on Congress | The Center On Congress at Indiana University - 2 views

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  • hpbookmarks on 28 May 15
     
    "What does Congress do?" "How does it affect my life?" "And how can I let Congress know what's important to me?" The Center on Congress helps "Americans of all ages understand how our representative democracy works and their role in our government."
vhudgins

Item 1 - A Factual Account of Nanking by the Red Swastika Society in Nanking | The Toky... - 1 views

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war crimes crimes trial tokyo war primary sources

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  • vhudgins on 06 Jul 15
     
    A primary source document for my Japan research
David Hilton

A Blog About History - 0 views

www.ablogabouthistory.com

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  • David Hilton on 14 Jun 09
     
    Even though this is a blog (I tell my students to avoid them! Such a hypocrite...) this bloke seems to know what he's doing. From what I can see it's relevant with up-to-date research on a wide range of historical topics. Might be useful for the archaeology unit my year 11s do.
David Hilton

Improving the group - 15 views

Hello everyone. Thanks for putting in some great bookmarks to the group; I don't know about you but already there have been some websites put in that I'll be able to use when teaching my classes. M...

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Matt Esterman

How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom - 11 views

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twitter teaching classroom web2.0 pedagogy

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  • David Hilton on 01 Aug 10
     
    I've been using Twitter with my 11s and 12s this year and the feedback so far has been very positive. It's created a real buzz. If anyone would like to join in with their students I'd encourage you to check out #historystudent on Twitter. I recommend downloading Tweetdeck first (my students use that). It would be great to have other students and teachers sharing the feed. A great discussion can also be found at #historyteacher, organised by Russell Tarr. I've picked up many resources there.
Keith Dennison

Seeking Assistance - 10 views

Hey, David. Thanks for pointing it out. I have to fiddle with the file, it appears it's corrupt. I'll post when fixed.

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David Hilton

Twitter | Teachinghistory.org - 8 views

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  • David Hilton on 23 Oct 10
     
    Does anyone else use Twitter with their classes? I use #historystudent with my senior history students. Please feel free to bring your students onto the feed. DM me on MisterHistory@twitter.com if you'd like to organise collaboration. 
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

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  • Christina Briola on 12 Nov 10
     
    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
David Hilton

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

www.historycooperative.org/...christian.html

ancient medieval modern world big history ap resources presentations

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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

Semester Outlines | Brisbane State High School - 15 views

www.brisbaneshs.eq.edu.au/index.php

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  • David Hilton on 15 Dec 10
     
    These are the semester outlines used by one of the best schools in my city, Brisbane State High School, for all subjects. 
HistoryGrl14 .

Welcome to InspirEd Educators - I Think Thematic Units - 14 views

www.inspirededucators.com/index.html

InspirEd Educators thematic

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 23 Feb 10
     
    This site looks really elementary, but DON'T be fooled! This company has units for various History subject areas (world, american, gov't, etc) that are based around activities AND taking lessons learned in the activities and making higher order thinking connections. I"m probably not doing the best job annotating this - but i will say this, I have one of the units and my students go NUTS over the activities and with their debriefing worksheets and discussion questions, my students really "get" the concepts and retain the learning.
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