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The the History Channel has a  video version of “this day in history”. The videos provide a quick overview of three to five items of historical significance from that day. You can chose from topics like the civil war, WWI and WWII and so on. Take a look!

Useful places to visit when planning the next school year.

1. Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author’s name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors’ names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you’re most likely to enjoy.
2. Typing Web offers beginner through advanced typing lessons for free. You can register to track your progress or you can use Typing Web without registering
3. Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages application is a series of nine maps that display the current front page of major newspapers around the world. Little orange colored dots on each map correspond to the publishing location of each newspaper.

(taken from Free Technology for teachers)

Navigate faster, closer and without bounds within Street View. Simply double-click to go wherever you like, including zooming in on building facades.

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Objectives:

1. Help students prepare for exam

US Topics:

1. The Roaring twenties
2. The great depression new page!
3. American revolution
4. American civil war.
5. American history – new page
6. Civil rights movement
7. Government, the electoral colleges, swing states. Government new page!
8. World events

UK Topics:

1. British politics, general election, house of lords, Uk Parliament, voting in the UK, election day,
2. Nothern Ireland, slideshare, BBC page, Everything all the time, useful place to visit. Video “no peace on the streets”, Good Friday agreement,  Northern Ireland today. Rescources from Tracks and textbook.

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It is the end of the semester and the students have all evaluated using OneNote in class. The final tests were the exams. Below are links to posts on how students evaluate OneNote for use  in class! I myself give it  A+! ( I use it at the University)

1. It’s also very handy while making a larger paper on something
2. I’m very excited over using OneNote
3. I wish we had started using OneNote 2 years ago
4. it is the best program I have ever used in school
5. I have spent a lot of time trying to learn everything I can about this genius program
6. I am going to use this in most of my classes.
7. OneNote has a lot of smart applications and I truly recommend it

More to be found on my students blogs to the right!

Top 100 Tools, OneNote , OneNote and Education, Cool examples of teachers using OneNote

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Glogster challenge!

The last class ended with this challenge. Below I have the links to the posts made by the students using Web 2.0 technology to explain the following topics.

1. American political system
   1. Dividing power, Federalism, Congress, Senate, President, Supreme Court Justice
      
2. British political system
   1. Elections in Britain, representative government, MP, Prime Minister, House of Lords, House of Commons
4. Whatever happened to Susan Boyle? Read this blog. Britain’s got talent.

After many hours of work the only Glogster I got was from Magnus! A winner again!

In teams of 3, how many movies can you identify? Use this document to fill in as many as possible!

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The last weeks of the semester. The students took time writing advice to next year’s students. Read their comments on what to do in a world of computers and temptation. (Read Facebook and Msn!) New research shows positive impact of Facebook on student development! Facebook can be used by members of higher education to help enhance student learning, build a sense of community, further increase student engagement and facilitate communication between educators and students.

Student blogs:

1. How to study when you have a laptop in front of you at all times.
2. I’m not saying that you should stay away from MSN and Facebook
3. Pay attention during classes as well as using your pc to take notes.
4. My advice to you is to pay attention during classes as well as using your pc to take notes….
5. This school is the flagship in use of technology!
6. Please try to stay focused, and put Facebook and MSN away until you get home!
7. Almost everything you do in class is done on the computers so you have all your school work organized on one place.
8. I remember playing games all the time in the beginning, and my grades turned out to be pretty bad.
9. Attention Newbies! Just play games!
   

Ellen DeGeneres Commencement Speech at Tulane University (2009-05-16). Wich I was so funny! Since I’m not I invite you to watch Ellen Degeneres! Funny and touching!

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CNN’s Rick Sanchez Reports: Five Birmingham police officers have been fired for a January 2008 beating of an already-unconscious suspect.

Objective:

1. To discuss a controversial issue

Topics for discussion:

1. Is  violence like this ever justified?
2. Why do the officers react like this?
3. Did they even know he was alive?

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Presidents of the United States morphed in sequence from George Washington to (President Elect) Barack Obama. The music is ‘Hooked on America’ performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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