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David Hilton

Kunera - 3 views

www.kunera.nl/default.aspx

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shared by David Hilton on 03 Oct 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 03 Oct 09
     
    A database of archaeological finds of medieval badges and ampulla in Europe. It takes you to a map where you can search for them. Admission - I don't know what an ampulla is. Sounds cool though, doesn't it?
David Hilton

YouTube - MisterHistory1's Channel - 5 views

www.youtube.com/...MisterHistory1

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 09
     
    A little self-indulgent, however I'm interested in seeing what other people do with their classes. This is the montage of our recent medieval tournament. We also do an archaeological dig and other historical re-enactments. If anyone else has footage, images or descriptions of activities or re-enactments they do with their classes I'd be really interested to see them. And steal their ideas.
David Hilton

- Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies [ DLMBS ] - - 3 views

buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/...index.htm

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  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 09
     
    Digital Buddhism. What next?
David Hilton

seven thirty-five a.m. - 9 views

735am.wordpress.com

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  • Keith Dennison on 06 Aug 10
     
    I am just starting a blog as part of a reflective practice. I also want to use it to connect with people who are interested in education and interested in smart inclusion of technology into the classroom. It's brand new, but I have a post on there with examples of what we're doing at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ.
  • David Hilton on 13 Aug 10
     
    This is a blog by Keith Dennison, a history teacher in New Jersey. Might be useful for teaching ideas or collaboration.
David Hilton

Homepage - ReadWriteThink - 18 views

www.readwritethink.org

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shared by David Hilton on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 17 Jul 10
     
    I've got a new boss these days and she's getting us to use graphic organisers and reading strategies and such things. I was sceptical at first, but now I'm a convert. Do many people use graphic organisers in class?
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  • Keith Dennison on 06 Aug 10
     
    They're pretty popular here in the States. What do you want to know/need to know?
  • Jeremy Greene on 07 Aug 10
     
    Thinkfinity has ReadWriteThink as one of its content providers. Definitely worth checking out: http://www.thinkfinity.org/
  • David Hilton on 07 Aug 10
     
    How do you use them mate? I found some excellent charts here http://moodle.egrps.org/course/enrol.php?id=136. Password is 'monty'.
  • Keith Dennison on 07 Aug 10
     
    I use them for thinking maps, to show how concepts and ideas are related, as flow charts when necessary, as a way to show comparisons and contrasts and as a way to show umbrella terms and then related terms.
  • David Hilton on 09 Aug 10
     
    I'm definitely a convert. I now spend the first half of each lesson going through the content and the second half skills-building using graphic organisers, summarising, etc.
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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started by Keith Dennison on 12 Sep 10 3 follow-ups, last by Keith Dennison on 13 Sep 10
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David Korfhage

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 8 views

www.boston.com/...ia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

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  • David Korfhage on 30 Sep 10
     
    Amazing and beautiful color pictures from early 20th century Russia, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
  • Patrick Higgins on 04 Oct 10
     
    These are unbelievable. What a find.
Joe Earley

US apologizes to Guatemala for Infecting over 1600 women with STDs in the 1940s - 9 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

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shared by Joe Earley on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joe Earley on 03 Oct 10
     
    Wow. What a story about US Foreign Policy from 1946-1948.
Ed Webb

Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010101907974.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Masoff defended her work. "As controversial as it is, I stand by what I write," she said. "I am a fairly respected writer."
  • When Masoff began work on the textbook, she said she consulted a variety of sources -- history books, experts and the Internet. But when it came to one of the Civil War's most controversial themes -- the role of African Americans in the Confederacy -- she relied primarily on an Internet search. The book's publisher, Five Ponds Press, based in Weston, Conn., sent a Post reporter three of the links Masoff found on the Internet. Each referred to work by Sons of the Confederate Veterans or others who contend that the fight over slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War.
  • . Five Ponds Press has published 14 books that are used in the Virginia public school system, all of them written by Masoff. Masoff also wrote "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty" and "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Moments."
Jeremy Greene

Historical Role Playing for Engagement, Authenticity, and Interaction - 20 views

worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/...gregg.html

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shared by Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    This is an article I co-wrote on using a technique (RAFT = role, audience, format, topic) to make history work more creative and worth while for students. I would love to hear what others think about the assignment
Christina Briola

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

cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

art history

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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
Ed Webb

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views

www.independent.co.uk/...rt-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
  • in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
  • The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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  • Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled.
  • This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s.
  • If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
  • Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another
  • As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949.
  • "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret."
  • Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA. But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded.
David Hilton

E!'s WH - 9 views

wh.ewert.us

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shared by David Hilton on 21 Feb 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 21 Feb 10
     
    A class website run by Dan Ewert in the States. It's not maintained anymore but is still a good example of what can be done even with something as simple as WordPress. Very cool.
Lisa M Lane

The Open Door Web Site : History : The Agricultural Revolution : The Four Field System - 11 views

www.saburchill.com/...003f.html

hist104

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  • Lisa M Lane on 17 Feb 10
     
    four field rotation
  • Christy Hanna on 17 Feb 10
     
    Lisa, What a great site! I can use this for sure. Thank you for sharing!
anonymous

Çatalhöyük: Introduction - 7 views

www.smm.org/introduction

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  • What are they excavating at Çatalhöyük? Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a Neolithic town. 9,000 years ago, this place was one of the world's largest settlements. At a time when most of the world's people were wandering hunter-gatherers, as many as 10,000 people lived at Çatalhöyük.
David Hilton

Unit 1 (AP World History) - 17 views

sites.google.com/...unit-1

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shared by David Hilton on 19 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 19 Dec 09
     
    Good example of using an LMS (Learning Management System [cool jargon to know!]) for a class. My school uses Moodle and BlackBoard is popular at Australian universities. I organise mine by lesson and direct the students to go through the materials before the lesson, usually podcasts, PowerPoints, links to a source site, etc, depending on what materials I'm using for the lesson. After the lesson I put the podcast of it up there for the students to use for revision, along with the notes they've taken during that lesson. Much more effective than a textbook, I reckon!
David Hilton

Digital History - 11 views

digitalhistory.unl.edu

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Dec 09
     
    Has a funky graphic interface connected to different types of resources to do with digital history. From what I can tell this is a bit of a buzzword (term?): 'digital history'. It seems if you're doing anything educational online put 'digital' in front of it and you're in the 21st century. Simple, really...
David Hilton

activehistory.ca - 7 views

activehistory.ca

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  • David Hilton on 05 Dec 09
     
    An interesting blog from Canada seeking to collect a, um, collection (it's the first day of the holidays and my frontal lobe still has not recovered from the marking season. Sorry...) of articles by historians which are relevant to the broader community. His argument that history has become too specialised and irrelevant is compelling. It gels with much of what I experienced at university, anyway. As I've said before, I use a blog reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines) to collect these types of sites into one place. I get many of the sites I post to the group that way.
David Hilton

AP Courses - Advanced Placement Course Descriptions - 6 views

www.collegeboard.com/...subjects.html

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  • U.S. History World History
    • David Hilton
      David Hilton on 05 Dec 09
       
      Here they are.
  • U.S. History World History
  • David Hilton on 05 Dec 09
     
    You'll find the United States AP World & US History course documents available for download at the bottom right. They have outlines of what is covered in the courses and also example assessment items. I'm going to use them this summer as I redesign our school's work programs. Even if you don't teach in the US they might be helpful.
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