Prezi Presentations

For the past week, my Arkansas History students have been busy working on their Famous Arkansan Project that they created using Prezi. For this project my students were asked to select and reserach a famous Arkansan from a given list. These famous Arkansans included singers, athletes, writers, and actors. The short list of these people…

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NSBA Voicethread

This coming week (March 15th) our school district will be hosting The National School Board Association as they visit our school district in which we will showcase how we use technology to enhance student learning here at Woodland Junior High. Attending this conference and visiting our school will be various school administrators and teachers from…

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Google Earth Practice

As mentioned before, we spent some time in social studies learning how to create tours. Here is Jared from my 5th period class taking us along on his trip to Adelaide, Australia. Mr. McClung

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New Kids on The Blog

One of the features offered by Edublogs is the ability to add editors to your blog. With this in mind, today I decided to get my students involved. For over a year now, I have been the only contributor to my class blog but today I added 9 student editors. Today I gave them a…

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Glogster…The Finished Product

Recently both my Arkansas history and science students completed projects using a website called Glogster. Glogster is a website that essentially allows you to create an online poster board. Check em’ out… Abbove is an example from my 4th period Arkansas history class…this student’s city was Little Rock, Arkansas. In Arkansas history, my students were…

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World History Timelines

For the past month my students have been maintaining a timeline that highlights some of the high points of world hisotry from from 1300 – modern times. If you are anything like me, when you hear the word “timeline” you automatically think about tons of paper that include historical points of reference that take forever…

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Creating a Trade Map

Students, today we will be taking a closer look at the Columbian Exchange maps and you will actually create your own map today using Google Maps. Today we will follow three steps: 1. You will need to create a map using Google Maps, watch the video for instructions: 2. Pick 10 crops from the article…

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Creating a Time Line & First Set of Dates

Today in class we will be using a website called Timetoast to help us build a historical time line. Please use the link provided to visit the website and watch the instructional videos below on how to create an account, time line, and event. How to Sign Up: Creating a New Time Line: Creating a…

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