Wednesday, June 6, 2012

T.A.L.L. Presentation - June 6, 2012


Here are resources related to my presentation for the T.A.L.L. Conference.

Link to Prezi presentation.

GET THE LESSON
Link to a full description of the lesson for the 1830 Indian Removal Act.

CREATE A BOOK
Link to UDL Book Builder for creating sources with scaffolds.
(I have links to additional primary source books/lessons in a previous post.)

CREATE A PRIMARY SOURCE LESSON
Link to DocsTeach.org lesson examples and templates for creating your own.

GET EXAMPLES OF HISTORICAL THINKING UNITS
Link to four units at Historical Thinking Matters.
(I talk more about this source in a previous post.)

GET COLLECTIONS OF SOURCES
Link to Stanford History Education Group's collections of primary sources for over 70 lessons.
(I talk more about this source in a previous post.)

Link to the History Project's Document Source Problems Collection.
(I talk more about this source in a previous post.)


Monday, May 21, 2012

Google Earth - Record a Tour

I imagine the typical day at Google starts with a simple question: "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" I have endlessly enjoyed the benefits of Google Scholar, Google Book, and, of course, Google Earth. A great option I recently learned about Google Earth is the record tour option. Here is a quick video that gives the overview for this option: http://youtu.be/iuz6P2ftWB0



Sounds like a good assignment for my social science methods course...