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Garth Holman

Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students - 0 views

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free technology timeline creation

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  • Meograph offers a nice way to create narrated map-based and timeline-based stories.
  • Dipity is a great timeline creation tool that allows users to incorporate text, images, and videos into each entry on their timeline.
  • myHistro is a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a timeline about a theme or event in history. Each event that you place on your timeline can be geolocated using Google Maps. myHistro timelines can be created online or you can use the free iPad app to create events on your timeline.
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  • I like XTimeline because I find it to be a great service that is very accessible to high school students. Using XTimeline students can collaborate, just as they would when making a wiki, to build a multimedia timeline.
  • TimeGlider offers some nicer layout features compared to XTimeline, but is not quite as intuitive to use as XTimeline.
  • Time Toast is easy to learn to use. To add events to a timeline simply click on the inconspicuous "add an event" button and a simple event box pops up in which you can enter enter text, place a link, or add a picture. T
  • Garth Holman on 20 Oct 12
     
    Building timelines online See individual links
Vivien M

Ancient Greece Timeline - 0 views

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  • Trojan War
  • Dark Ages
  • the fall of the Mycenean culture
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  • Development of the first Greek Alphabet
  • First Olympic Games
  • First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
  • Rise of the Greek tyrants
  • Philip II
  • Greek / Persian Wars
  • Peloponnesian Wars
  • Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
  • Construction of Temple
  • becomes the king of the Greeks    
  • Coin currency
  • Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
  • Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
  • Crucifixion
  • of Jesus and the origin of Christianity
  • The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece
Garth Holman

Alexander the Great - Ancient Greece for Kids - 2 views

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Alexander the Great

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      Garth Holman on 18 Nov 15
       
      So, He shared the Greek Culture to any area he conquered.  This cultural diffusion so became called Hellenistic Culture (Greek Like)  
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  • Alexander had many teachers, one of which was Aristotle.
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  • Alexander had many teachers, one of which was Aristotle.
  • Alexander never lost a battle, never, not even one
  • became ill and died. He was only 32 years old.
  • It was Alexander who spread the Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean
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  • was Aristotle.
  • Alexander had many teachers
  • He loved the Greeks.
  • and interesting and talented
  • Aristotle thought the Greeks were clever
  • Aristotle had a grea
  • effect on Alexander and what he believed.
  • taught all the people he conquered about the ancient Greeks
  • shared their stories, their myths, their gods, their language - just as he had been taught.
  • It was Alexander who spread the Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean.
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      ns21dcs on 03 Dec 15
       
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  • However, there is no denying that Alexander changed the world.
    • Garth Holman
      Garth Holman on 04 Nov 19
       
      STOP here for Early life.
  • When he finally came home, his dad got him a job in the royal court in nearby Macedonia as a tutor to the young prince Alexander.
  • They taught him the art of war. Artistotle taught him to admire and respect the Greek culture. Artistotle was only Alexander's tutor for 3 years, but he had an enormous affect on the young prince, so much so that Alexander soon convinced himself that his father, King Phillip II of Macedonia, was not his real father at all.
  • Alexander was 19 years old, his father (King Phillip II) was assassinated. Alexander took over as king of Macedonia in 336 BC. Alexander quickly pulled together all of Macedonia under his leadership.
  • Alexander turned his attention to the massive Persian Empire.
  • By the time Alexander was 25 years old, against incredible odds, and in only six years, Alexander had become not only the king of Macedonia, but also the leader of the Greeks, overlord of Asia Minor, pharaoh of Egypt, and the great king of Persia.
  • Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that stretched across three continents, and covered around two million square miles. The entire area from Greece in the west, north to the Danube, and south into Egypt, and as far to the east as the Indian Punjab, was linked together in a vast international network of trade and commerce. This network was united by a common Greek language and culture."
  • As a scholar, Alexander felt it was his mission to spread the Greek culture.
  • schools everywhere he went to teach Greek philosophy and the Greek language.
  • Alexander adopted many of the customs of the local people he conquered, blending their culture with the Greek culture.
  • established hospitals, built fortified cities, and created the largest library in the ancient world at Alexandria.
  • but he never lost a battle.
  • ob21dcs on 03 Dec 15
     
    Important stuff about Alexander 
  • sa21dcs on 03 Dec 15
     
    Alex was very great.
John Woodbridge

How a Medieval Philosopher Dreamed Up the 'Multiverse' - Yahoo News - 0 views

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  • written by a philosopher named Robert Grosseteste — into English. Grosseteste was "one of the most dazzling minds of his generation, lauded by his successors as a mathematical genius, theologian, politician and church leader; he was the bishop of Lincoln from 1235-53,"
  • In Grosseteste's time, the dominant cosmological model was the one developed mainly by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He postulated that there were nine planets (called spheres), one inside the other, with planet Earth at the center.
  • In De Luce, Grosseteste assumed that the universe was born from an explosion that pushed everything, matter and light, out from a single point — an idea that is strikingly similar to the modern Big Bang theory.
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  • matter and light were linked together
  • rapid expansion
  • light-matter crystallizing and forming the outermost sphere — the so-called "firmament" — of the medieval cosmos.
  • The medieval philosopher realized this problem, too. To deal with it, he added an extra reason to explain why there were "exactly nine celestial spheres plus one, an 'imperfect' Earth," Bower said.
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    Science
alove_

Why every world map you're looking at is WRONG: Africa, China and India are distorted d... - 0 views

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  • The distortion is the result of the Mercator map which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the worldIt gives the right shapes of countries but at the cost of distorting sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the northFor instance, north America looks larger, or at least as big, as Africa, and Greenland also looks of comparable sizeIn reality, you can fit north America into Africa and still have space for India, Argentina, Tunisia and some left overMap suggests Scandinavian countries are larger than India, whereas in reality India is three times the size The biggest challenge for cartographers is that it is impossible to portray reality of spherical world on a flat map
  • ideological assumptions that can change the way we see the world.
Garth Holman

What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • 1. Instagram can share information about its users with Facebook, its parent company, as well as outside affiliates and advertisers.
  • The potentially lucrative move will let advertisers in Facebook’s ad network use data and information that users have shared on Instagram, like details about favorite places, bands, restaurants or hobbies, to better target ads at those users.
  • 2. You could star in an advertisement — without your knowledge.
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  • will also be able to use your photographs and identity in advertisements.
  • “You agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you,”
  • In addition, someone who doesn’t use Instagram could end up in an advertisement if they have their photograph snapped and shared on the service by a friend.
  • 3. Underage users are not exempt.
  • least 13 years old to sign up for the service, the new terms note that if a teenager signs up, they are agreeing that a parent or guardian is aware that their image, username and photos can also be used in ads.
  • 4. Ads may not be labeled as ads.
  • 5. Want to opt out? Delete your account.
  • “by accessing or using the Instagram website, the Instagram service, or any applications (including mobile applications) made available by Instagram (together, the “Service”), however accessed, you agree to be bound by these terms of use.”
John Woodbridge

Science reveals secret lives of mysterious decapitated gladiators - CNET - 0 views

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Gladiators

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  • At least 75 were adult male skeletons, all under the age of 45, around an inch taller than the Roman average and well built. This demographic alone is unusual for a Roman cemetery of the era. But the manner in which the remains were buried was oddest of all. The heads had been removed, placed in the graves on the chests or between the legs of the bodies.
  • Forensic work conducted on the bones revealed one man had been bitten by a large carnivore, such as a lion or bear, which were fought by gladiators in the arena. Another skeleton showed signs of a massive hammer blow to the head, a method of mercy killing delivered to badly wounded fighters.
  • The bones also showed that the men had much stronger right arms than left, which was normal for slaves trained to fight in the arena from childhood. In addition, the bones showed evidence of childhood stress and deprivation, which would be expected for gladiatorial slaves, and healed wounds that suggested lives well used to injury and fighting.
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  • Most of the skeletons sampled had similar genomes to those of a female Iron Age skeleton from Melton in East Yorkshire, suggesting that some of the men had lived most of their lives in Britain. And a small variation in isotope levels showed that some had started their lives elsewhere, but had been in Britain since early childhood.
  • One skeleton of the seven was a surprise, though. According to the genomic analysis, he was from the Middle East. He had grown up in what is now Palestine, Jordan or Syria, and migrated across to the UK as an adult
  • "It confirms the cosmopolitan character of the Roman Empire even at its most northerly extent."
  • John Woodbridge on 22 Jan 16
     
    Roman gladiators graves found in England
dcs-armstrong

Scientists Blame Gerbils (Not Rats) for the Black Death - History in the Headlines - 2 views

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  • Scientists Blame Gerbils (Not Rats) for the Black Death
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      dcs-armstrong on 01 Apr 15
       
      Scientists Blame Gerbils for the Spread of the Black Death
  • team of researchers now claims that blame may have been misplaced
  • researchers from the University of Oslo analyzed climate data going back to the 14th century
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  • 7,711 historical plague outbreaks
  • Instead, they say, outbreaks of the Black Death seem to correspond with weather patterns in Asia, not Europe itself
  • plague outbreaks in Europe can be linked to the years that central Asia experienced wet springs followed by warm summe
  • such conditions would have been terrible for black rats, the scientists point out, they would have created ideal breeding conditions for another plague-bearing rodent: the gerbil.
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