Redeveloping my presentations and material year to year, I’ve been waiting for the search engine that looks for:

Historical Information – encyclopedic Images Video

with any given search term (for example: Boston Tea Party). I’m still in the process of review, but Navify seems to be what I’m looking for. Type in the search terms, [...]

On your new computers you have the most excellent program called “Jing” (look under “all programs – it’s called “Tech Smith”).

What does Jing do? First,  it allows you to camputer pictures of what’s on your computer screen. You can then add text, shapes, highlights, etc. to the picture. Second, it lets you create screencasts [...]

If you’re looking for an excellent website to upload video (perhaps using your new, nifty webcam), Vimeo’s the site to use. With Youtube blocked, and Teachertube relatively worthless (both with high quality content and technical abilities), Vimeo’s the best option (at least currently). You can find some really good clips [...]

Continuing our Western Theme.

Monday

WU: Seating Chart Frontier House

Tuesday

Field trip to High School

Wednesday

WU Conclude Handouts from Last week Frontier House

Thursday/Friday (block schedule)

WU Handout Frontier House: Conclude Begin Project

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a blogging platform used by the majority of bloggers on the web. It is ridiculously simple to use and atheistically pleasing in design. It’s also free open source.

Students can easily post their thoughts, video, or images.

Why use it in the class?

Teachers use blogs for a number of [...]

This week we continue to look at the settlement of the American West.

Monday

WU Frontier House

Tuesday

WU: Story of Stuff Guided Reading: The West

Wednesday

WU Frontier House

Thursday

WU Frontier House

Friday

WU Finish guided reading