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A History Bee?
A few days ago I stumbled the idea of a history bee, and, as I am wont to do (not often you get to use wont in a real sentence), I started to wonder what that would look like. For … Continue reading
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I was Canadian – Part 4
Our interviews with famous dead Canadians are pretty much wrapped up now. I learned a few things in the process. If you’re going to alter people’s voices to make girls sound like guys and guys sound like girls, subtle changes … Continue reading
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I was Canadian – Part 3
This week our project has been focussed on keeping the momentum. I’ve been pushing the kids to develop a bibliography for their project (so I can see that they have adequate sources) and to start using citations in their work. … Continue reading
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I was Canadian – Part 2
Our I was Canadian project continued this week with the kids picking topics, and me showing them the software we are going to use to record the interviews. We’re using a nice open source piece of software called Audacity and, … Continue reading
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I was Canadian
We’re about a week and a half into the school year, so I thought it was time to start with our annual project, I was Canadian. For this I have my Grade 9 students research a late, great Canadian, write … Continue reading
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Old time cell phones
I don’t know if this video is for real (this site suggests it is) but it sure gets you thinking about technology in a different way.
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Singing a song
I’ve been busy the last few weeks and haven’t blogged much at all, much to my embarassment, but I’ve still been up to interesting things in class. I’ve spent much of the past few hours on this prep day trying … Continue reading
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Playing with Pictures to Show the Past
Over the last few months, I’ve been exposed to a lot of people who, in one way or another, are using photos in their classroom. When I see other folks doing something cool, I start to wonder if I could … Continue reading
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Governor General's Awards for History
The shortlist of nominees for the Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Teaching History has been released. If you teach history it’s worth a quick look. There’s some really cool projects in there. Two of them in particular caught my … Continue reading
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Using primary sources to determine importance
As a History teacher I’m a big fan of primary sources. There’s some really cool ones on the Net now including the Alberta Newspaper Collection and Manitobia’s Newspaper Collection of Manitoba journals. Yesterday via my Twitter contacts, I came across … Continue reading
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