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A History Teacher


Looking Forward?

I am a big fan of all of the ed tech visionaries out there. My Bloglines account includes the likes of Will Richardson, David Warlick, Chris Lehmann, Vicki Davis, and about 50 others. Plus, in the...

Started in A History Teacher • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ed tech, education, general, teaching
More Cool Tools: Comiqs and Jumpcut

Teaching summer school to students who were mostly retaking the course allowed for some experimentation over the last few weeks. The first is Comiqs.com. My students used this tool to summarize...

Started in A History Teacher • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cool tools
Recent Workshop

A couple months ago I attended and presented at an alumni event for the Educational Technology Department at SDSU. It was a nice afternoon and I think the presentation went well. I just remembered...

Started in A History Teacher • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
World Without Oil and $5 gas

Back in February people were hypothetically talking about $4 a gallon gasoline. Now with my corner gas station at $4.39, there is talk about $5.00 gas by the end of July. Crazy stuff. Who knows...

Started in A History Teacher • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
Class of 2008

Have a lot to say these days, maybe with school over I will have time. Graduation was today. Nice event as usual. I probably “connected” with more students in this class than ever before. This...

Started in A History Teacher • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
Google Academy 2008

Last year I was lucky enough to be selected to attend the Santa Monica Google Teachers Academy. It was one of the best staff development opportunities I have ever experience. Well, it looks like...

Started in A History Teacher • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
Three Things

I’m trying to come back… OK, as part of the whole application process, I have had to do some serious thinking about all sorts of educational issues, but educational technology issues...

Started in A History Teacher • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general, educationaltechnology, web2.0
Teacher of the Year Application

I was selected to represent my school at my districts Teacher of the Year competition, here is my letter of introduction. My interview is on Thursday. I love history, from the broad historical...

Started in A History Teacher • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Andrew Jackson in the House

After seven months, hundreds of hours, the Andrew Jackson PBS Web site is live. It was an amazing experience and I will write more about this soon, but for now, go explore. I wrote all the lessons,...

Started in A History Teacher • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
NCSS in San Diego

Is finally here! This weekend San Diego hosts the annual conference for the National Council for the Social Studies. In an act of shameless self-promotion, I’m doing yet another revised...

Started in A History Teacher • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ed tech, ncss, ncss2007, ncss07, danmcdowell