Not Your Typical Timeline Project

I’ve always had a problem with timeline projects, although they are very useful for putting information into chronological order they can be very messy and quite boring. Being a social studies teacher, there is still a need for timelines to organize information, so I decided to find a different approach to handling timelines. Several weeks…

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Setting Up Your Slideshare Account

Students, today in class we will take some time to set up a Slideshare accounts…this will give you the ability to download any documents or presentations I upload to the website. Listed below are the instructions for signing up. Go to SlideShare.net Click on the sign up button located in the top right hand corner…

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Digital Storytelling With Prezi

Computer application students, today we will be taking a different approach to our class as we begin to a unit on digital storytelling. Today we will be using a website called Prezi to tell a story…first though we need to sign up for the service. Click here to visit Prezi’s website and get started making…

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Create Your Own Country Update – Google SketchUp

As we begin to wrap up our create your won country project, the student’s work is starting to materialize into great presentations. The screencast above is a short video tour put together by a one group showing off their countries map by using Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp allows students to create 3-D graphics which is…

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Google Makes Projects Easier

As we continue to move forward with our create your own country projects, students have started to become more and more creative with how they are putting their projects together. In the video above you will see Ortiz and Coleman explain the two components that make up their project. First of which is Google Docs…

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Sharing is Caring

Josh and Cole from 4th period working together using Google Docs. In class on Thursday, I introduced to my students one of my favorite tech tools of all time…Google Docs. Each student was given a list of economy terms to define and explain, expect they were required to type the assignment using Google Docs. Student…

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Using Examview

Students, today we will be using Examview to take our social studies test today. Examview is a program that allows us to take our test using laptops over the schools network. In order to do this today, there will be a few instructions that we will need to familiarize ourselves with to take our test…

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Remembering September 11th

Today in class, like thousands across America, we will be observing the attacks of September 11th, 2001. As we move further and further away from the date of the original 9/11 attack on America, it becomes more important that we not only observe this day but also teach to our students exactly what happened on…

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Using Earthpulse

Above is a screen shot of a teaching tool called EarthPluse. It is an application that is hosted on National Geographic’s Website. It serves as a resource for viewing maps, global trends, and human impact. The image you are viewing above is the import and export trends of different regions around the world. Today we…

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