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HSI: Historical Scene Investigation - 0 views

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History socialstudies primary source investigation

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"The Historical Scene Investigation Project (HSI) was designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom. With the advent and accessibility of the internet, many libraries, universities and government agencies are housing their historical documents online. Simultaneously, there has been a push in K-12 history education to give students experiences that more closely resemble the work of a real historian. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Historical Scene Investigation Project (HSI) was designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom. With the advent and accessibility of the internet, many libraries, universities and government agencies are housing their historical documents online. Simultaneously, there has been a push in K-12 history education to give students experiences that more closely resemble the work of a real historian. "</div>

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scott klepesch on 21 Mar 11

Promising website for the integration of primary source materials into the classroom. Students are detectives.

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Tip of the Week - Five Photo Story Telling « History Tech - 0 views

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storytelling photographs

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"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "</div>

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scott klepesch on 17 Mar 11

Check this lesson out.

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TEDucation - Full On Learning reflections on www.TED.com talks - 0 views

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TED education

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A blog dedicated to Ted videos. A collection of Ted Talks for the classroom.

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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Mapping Africa - 0 views

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Africa Maps audio

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Mapping Africa is a five minute narrated overview of the changing map of Africa from the 14th Century through today. The slideshow features explanations of the features of different historical maps of Africa.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mapping Africa is a five minute narrated overview of the changing map of Africa from the 14th Century through today. The slideshow features explanations of the features of different historical maps of Africa.</div>

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Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 0 views

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Sophia open source materials

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is a free platform on which teachers can publish packets of information about any academic topic they choose. Packets can include text, images, and videos to explain and illustrate information. Published packets are reviewed and rated by the Sophia community. A green check mark emblem on a packet signifies that the Sophia community has rated that packet as "academically sound."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">is a free platform on which teachers can publish packets of information about any academic topic they choose. Packets can include text, images, and videos to explain and illustrate information. Published packets are reviewed and rated by the Sophia community. A green check mark emblem on a packet signifies that the Sophia community has rated that packet as "academically sound."</div>

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Local news is going mobile. | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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Pew Internet Report mobile devices information

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"Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer. "</div>

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BBC News - Middle East protests: Country by country - 0 views

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Middle East Revolution

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Following the fall of presidents of Egypt and Tunisia

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Digital Textbooks: Three Simple Shifts Can Speed Up Adoption | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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digital textbooks

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Shift #1  – Let’s make the curriculum map the curriculum map. That’s not a textbook’s job.
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Better yet, can we build our curriculum maps to be digital frameworks, on which we can hang the additional digital resources that we use to help teach our students, standards and content?
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then our coordinators need to be good at more than just instructional implementation. They also need expertise in publishing on the Web and in resource development and distribution
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scott klepesch on 07 Mar 11

Ideas for making the shift to digital texts. The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Ideas for making the shift to digital texts. The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.</div>

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scott klepesch on 07 Mar 11

The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.</div>

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Skype in the classroom (beta) | Skype Education - 0 views

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skype collaboration education

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" Skype in the classroom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" Skype in the classroom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes."</div>

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Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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wadah khanfar All Jazeera revolution social media

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"As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what's happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond -- at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what's happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond -- at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change."</div>

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Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers - Cat's Pyjamas - 0 views

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moodle guide

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Tool guide for teachers on Moodle. Moodle evaluated against Bloom's taxonomy

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Unfit for Democracy? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Kristof revolution Middle East

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I don’t think so. Moreover, this line of thinking seems to me insulting to the unfree world. In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I’ve been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I’ve seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. How can we say that these people are unready for a democracy that they are prepared to die for?
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The common thread of this year’s democracy movement from Tunisia to Iran, from Yemen to Libya, has been undaunted courage.
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Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen on Vimeo - 0 views

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dachau surviving

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Video testimonial of a survivor from Dachu

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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 1 views

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Art History opensource

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Open Source materials for Art History. Narrative slideshows about different time periods.

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scott klepesch on 01 Mar 11

Open Source material for infusing art history into the classroom. Definitely worth exploring

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Global Voices · Citizen media stories from around the world - 0 views

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global media blog

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"Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world."

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scott klepesch on 01 Mar 11

Another resources to access as events in the Middle East unfold

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Netflix Turns a Blind Eye to Illegal Use by School Libraries - 1 views

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netflx

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Article about schools Netflix. What is the possibility of creating a school subscription for MHS.

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TEDTALKS TED wiki

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Social Media and the Preservation of Liberty | Ed Reach - 0 views

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ED Reach Egypt Liberty

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For the first time in their history Egyptians are pursuing their own liberty and we all watched as they took a great leap toward true freedom when their president for the past several decades, Mubarak, stepped down. What was amazing for the rest of the world to watch was how this monumental feat occurred, in no small, part through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
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I would like to propose some ways educators can help students understand, create, and preserve liberty by pursuing a connected ‘general knowledge’ as described by John Adams.
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scott klepesch on 16 Feb 11

Ways educators can help students understand, create and preserve liberty by pursuing a connected 'general knowledge' as described by John Adams.

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Advancing the Flip: Developments in Reverse Instruction | Connected Principals - 1 views

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flip-thinking Reverse Instruction

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Steven B. Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From about the revolutionary power of social media such as Twitter to advance ideas and innovation in a myriad of fields, and it has been fascinating to see this concept in action in the swift spread over the past six months of the practice of flipping classrooms,  which is also known as reverse instruction or learning, and is closely related to (or often synonymous with) teacher vodcasting.
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  At the same time, what is now an opportunity is also becoming an urgency: if students don’t need to come to class to get informational content delivery, if they can get it easily on their own, we need to transform how we use our classroom time such that it continues to be relevant and valuable.
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I decided to use [reverse instruction] to teach my students the basic concepts of neurons.  For homework, I posted to our wiki a Khan Academy video, as well as, a couple of TED talks from leading neurologists to explain some of the purposes neurons have and cutting edge research that’s being done in the field.  In total, maybe about 25 minutes of work.
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I love the idea that my students are now being taught by leading neurologists.  Shouldn’t all of our biology students be able to say that?
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Start to think about seat time differently. What will you do in class when you make the students responsible for content? Where does homework fit it? Could this be part of the replacement for traditional homework? Again, be careful of the” course and a half.”
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scott klepesch on 14 Feb 11

Shares teachers who have experimented with flipping instruction. Also, contains links to articles about Khan Academy.

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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 0 views

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poll survey mobile

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Free polling, students can text in their answers

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