by TeachCivilWar | Aug 16, 2009 | Civil War Related Websites, Miscellaneous Civil War topics, Teaching the Civil War Blog
Eric Langhorst, over at the Speaking of History Blog presented at the METC 2008 Conference on Hardtack to Hard Drives. The presentation is related to Eric’s use of the book Guerrilla Season in order to integrate blogs into his classroom. What really got me...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 14, 2009 | Famous Civil War People, Lesson Plans
Here is another cool use of VoiceThread for your classroom. Melanie Lewis is an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher in Virgina and has created a webpage called Lincoln Loved Learning. Mrs. Lewis has taken several images from the life of Abraham Lincoln and...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 7, 2009 | Lesson Plans
Wesley Fryer of the Moving at the Speed of Creativity Blog visited the Confederate Memorial Museum in Oklahoma and while touring the museum he took photographs of the various displays and then used Voicethread to post a narrated slide show to his blog. Check it out...
by TeachCivilWar | May 12, 2009 | Lesson Plans
Mr. T, an 8th grade American Cultures teacher at Hershey Middle School, is the author of the American Cultures 2.0 blog. While reviewing his blog recently, I noticed that he has developed two great uses of Web 2.0 technologies for teaching the Civil War. The first one...
