Teaching History with web 2.0

HS history curriculum using web 2.0 sites that are free! go look at

http://www.xtimeline.com/index.aspx - let's students make timelines and export to excel

http://quizlet.com/ have the students make flashcards together in groups

http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html to keep and share notes

http://micdsus.squarespace.com/course-description/ An adventure in US history

the goal is to have students to think critically and verbally, articulate and visually presented
do you want to have a online collaborative course?

http://www.peopleaggregator.net/homepage.php start a social network for your classes . you are the administrator

wiki's for subject topics. students post continously

use audacity or garageband to create podcasts

http://www.gogofrog.com/vtrcomau/ have student's create museums about their subject area

Thought for the day
How does exploration of a frontier change the world and change the explorer? Think about the frontier being the internet and you being the explorer?

Scratch - free programming language

Mitch Resnick presented SCRATCH - a free MIT programming langauge for students
Do you agree one of the best laerning habits is when students can make characters come to life then this site is for you
http://scratch.mit.edu/

the programmable blocks of scratch allow students to build behavior into objects. the main goal is to have students use creative critical thinking. Scratch will be buillding a community of educators who will work on bringing scratch into lessons