- New Plugin! Easily Print and Make PDF’s of Posts! February 22, 2012 Ronnie Burt
- New Feature! Easy Password Protect Your Entire Blog February 13, 2012We have always had many different privacy options available to our bloggers – blogs can be as public or as private as you’d like. Until now, if you wanted your blog to be private so that only a certain group of people could see it, you had to create and add usernames for each individual [...]Ronnie Burt
- New Dashboard Tools for Better Blogging and Student Management January 11, 2012We’ve got a huge amount of new blogging toys coming your way here in 2012! To help lay the ground work for the even better stuff yet to come, you will now notice two snazzy new boxes greeting you when you first login to your blog’s dashboard. There is more! Go to Dashboard > My [...]Ronnie Burt
- Meet Liquorice – A fun new mobile friendly theme November 17, 2011 Ronnie Burt
- Fun NEW Facts About Your Edublogs URL November 9, 2011Whenever you first create a blog here on edublogs.org you are given a brand new URL, or link, for your site. For example, studentchallenge.edublogs.org is the URL for the Student Blogging Challenge blog. As of today, you can also access the same site using studentchallenge.edublogs.com – see what we did there? Even though the .org ending [...]Ronnie Burt
- A New Theme! Our Most Mobile and iPad Friendly Yet October 31, 2011We are thrilled to unveil a brand new theme today! Yoko – as it is called – is our first “responsive” and HTML5 theme. This means that it will look great on all types of devices – including tablets and phones. Exciting, huh? This works because the theme is designed to move the sidebars and [...]Ronnie Burt
- Simply Amazing – A Story of Global Connections Through Blogging October 25, 2011One of the best parts about working at Edublogs is seeing daily all of the amazing learning experiences of students through blogging. We regularly try to share these examples on our Facebook and Twitter pages, but this one in particular seemed worthy of a bit more. Six teachers, from six different corners of the world, have collaborated [...]Ronnie Burt
- Edublogs Update: Manage multiple blogs with a more powerful ‘My Blogs’ page September 7, 2011When Edublogs was first started years ago, most users just had one blog that they kept up with. Now, with the exciting increase of student blogging, many users are managing hundreds of blogs all from their one account! The newly revamped ‘My Blogs‘ page, found in the top left under ‘Dashboard‘, now makes it all [...]Ronnie Burt
- Improving parent communication in 3 short steps August 31, 2011Earlier today, this blog post was published on Edutopia.org that shares results of a recent survey by the National School Public Relations Association in the US. The survey asked parents and non-parents (over 43,000 of them!) how they want to be kept informed about what’s going on at school. The results were surprising in that social [...]Ronnie Burt
- What we don’t know about George Washington December 11, 2011Learning Objectives:1. Discuss as a class what the group knows about George Washington. 2. Brainstorm and build a list of facts from the prior knowledge of the group.3. Research individually to find three unique facts different from the list the class created.4. Share discovered information and sources with class.5. Explore concepts of information literacy s […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- John Brown: Hero or Terrorist November 17, 2011Learning Objectives:1. Define the qualities of a heroic action and/or person.2. Discuss modern terrorism and the impact on our lives.3. Define the terms terrorist/terrorist action.4. Research the events at Harper’s Ferry and John Brown.5. Explore newspaper articles from the period and other primary sources about Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry.6. Debate as […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Is it a Massacre or a Battle? October 24, 2011Learning Objectives:1. Explore the documentation of historical events by historians, the public, and politicians.2. Develop criteria as a historian for the use of the labels “massacre” and “battle” for historical events.3. Evaluate historical events and determine whether they are correctly labeled based on criteria.4. Examine the name changes over time assoc […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Student Generated Learning -- Let Students Lead the Way May 19, 2011Most instructors require some sort of text book or reading materials that are quite thorough and provide a good overall understanding for students on the people, places and events of history. Then instructors plan a series of lectures and assignments that compliment and expand on the readings to meet the competencies of the course. We also want our students […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Signers of the Declaration of Independence Assignment May 5, 2011Title: Signers of the Declaration of Independence AssignmentObjective/s: Learner will research an assigned Signer of the Declaration and come to class as that person with clues about who they are for their classmates to guess who they are.Assignment type: FormativeAssignment Details1. Student will be assigned the name of one of the signers of the Declaration […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Augmented Reality Assignments April 21, 2011Last week I attended the ELCC Conference and presented with Mary Cash, Save the Trees!, on open content courses including my use of NROC content in CCCOnline history courses. One of my favorite presentations at the conference was by Chris Luchs and Kae Novak on Augmented Reality Assignments.Scenario based learning, Authentic Assessments, and Augmented Realit […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Production Groups: History Teamwork April 7, 2011Teamwork often involves a daunting assignment that is difficult for both the instructor and the students to get excited about. I suggest building a culture in your classroom of collaboration that is not usually tied to a grade so that when a group project is assigned the team experience is not foreign to anyone. For history classrooms, get students thinking […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Worst Historical Villain Ever! Multimedia Biography Assignment March 24, 2011As we see in popular culture and movies, people are fascinated by the lives of the “bad guys.” Our students get excited when they learn about Billy the Kid or Al Capone, so let them explore the lives and history surrounding some of history’s worst villains. In the last assignment students read a biography and composed an essay on what they learned. However, […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Women’s History Month Biography Assignment March 10, 2011My young daughters can’t imagine a world where they couldn’t play sports, get an education, or have any career they can imagine for themselves. Frankly, I can’t imagine growing up in a society that limited me based on my gender either. However, this was not always the case which is why March is Women’s History Month. To highlight the historical significance […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- Historical Documentary and Video Reflection Assignment February 24, 2011It is said that a picture can be worth a thousand words, and videos can get students thinking about content in a familiar yet powerful way. Reading Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech fails to move students like listening to his voice and watching him deliver the message. In this assignment, students will reflect on videos that the instructor provid […]noreply@blogger.com (Karen Kaemmerling)
- We made it! — Buenos Aires, Argentina February 24, 2012S + M travel
- First Day Out — Lisbon, Portugal February 24, 2012Eurotrip 2012
- Jet-lagged in the middle of the night! — Narita, Japan February 24, 2012Louannems's solo trip to Gujo Hachiman
- Day 10 — Aguas Claras, Costa Rica February 24, 2012Jo & Wally's Costa Rica Road Trip
- I am in Japan!!! — Narita, Japan February 24, 2012Louannems's solo trip to Gujo Hachiman
- Leaving for Japan! — SeaTac, WA February 24, 2012Louannems's solo trip to Gujo Hachiman
- Korcula Town Feb 24, 2012 — Korcula Town, Croatia February 24, 2012Marcomillione's Great Adventure
- Taking time to see the island — Galiano Island, Canada February 24, 201214 Months
- Loss of Mmorpgs Earns Football Twin — Orange, CA February 24, 2012Baozhenghua316's Great Adventure
- THRILLA IN CAMOTES ISLAND!!! — CAMOTES ISLAND, Philippines February 24, 2012Rubay_adventure's Great Adventure
Flickr Photos
|
Recent Comments