Posts tagged history
What’s your philosophy of life?
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Spent some time this weekend in photoshop working on this recreation of a 1800s Lawrenceville (the high school I work at) team photo. A talented student photographer and the Athletic Director worked together to have the guys position themselves similar to the 1887 photo, and I had the job as digital designer.
Turned out pretty well.
Anyone have good rubrics for using wikis in a history class? Or can anyone link to wikis that students have made for history classes? I could use some examples.
If you know the history of Starfleet you could see how this pairing in my facebook news feed is an ironic coincidence.
Journey of the Universe:
We just had an evening screening of this new science-meets-humanities narrative of the universe story at an all school evening meeting. The husband and wife producer team from Yale was on site for an introduction and questions. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but had to confiscate two phones during the viewing from kids who were distracting themselves with nonsense.
Positively Persistent Teach: Social Studies Websites
A fellow Tumblr teacher requested websites related to the Soviet Union collapse.
Below are websites I’ve collected that I consider to be “gems”:
- Best of History Websites This website catalogs a variety of sites and provides brief summaries about each site
