Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Teacher Resource Links Added

I have done some hunting on the blogosphere for history related content.  There is a ton out there.  I have posted three sites that I think will be excellent resources for myself and history teachers who come here.  Two more are technology in education sites.  Teach Paperless is just like it name implies.  The bloggers there are presenting ways to use less paper in the classroom.  I love the idea from an environmental and economic stand point.  Finally, I added Dangerously Irrelevent by Scott McLeod who deals with technology in education. 

Monday, March 7, 2011

More House Keeping

I have added some more links to the Student Resources section.  Two are for the Minnesota History Center and the Minnesota Historical Society.  Both are great research sites for students.  They also have events students can attend to learn more about history.  I highly recommend Murphy's Landing in the summer.  The two newest links are to pages of my creation.  I have now set up classroom Wiki and Flickr pages.  The Wiki page is for parents to sign up for upcoming events such as field trips.  I also envision it being used as a class project where students will create their own textbook chapter.  That project is still in the imagination phase.  I hope to start fleshing out the idea here soon.  The Flickr account will be used for students to share images they found interesting and may be useful to other students.  I also plan on using it to post pictures of classroom events such as field trips.