History Tech

Glenn shares his top 5 (for this week, they’re always changing) sites to grab some digital content online for social studies.  He also shares why he choose them and what the benefits each sites gives you.

 

 

5 online sites

DOCSTeach – https://www.docsteach.org/

Ted-Ed – https://ed.ted.com/

Listenwise – https://listenwise.com/

Newsela – https://newsela.com/

– The NY Times Learning Network – https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning?mcubz=3

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Social media, would you like your posts and you kids posts to stand out?  Glenn has some tools to help you create fun engaging posts.

 

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Do you look at Twitter and think what’s a tweet, 140 characters, and what’s a hashtag?  We can’t help with the first two but Glenn can show you how you can make a hashtag your friend.  Hashtags can open up a whole world of information, professional learning, and collaboration right at your finger tips.

 

sschat.org

Hashtags: #sschat Mondays 6-7 pm CST, #worldgeochat Tuesdays 8-9 pm CST, #sstlap Thursday 8-9 pm CST

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Kansas Definition of Civic Engagement:  Individuals sharing their skills and knowledge through actions intended to improve communities, states, nations, the world, and themselves. – https://goo.gl/uKA6m5

In this episode of the History Tech podcast, host Glenn Wiebe discussess civic engagement.  He’ll share some tools you can use and share a document developed during the September Social Studies PLC Glenn heads up heald at ESSDACK.

Controversial do’s and don’t’s (google docs) – https://goo.gl/M2W4w1

http://www.joelwestheimer.org/what-kind-of-citizen/

http://www.citizenuniversity.us/eric-liu/

http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/01/10/48/11048.pdf

https://www.icivics.org/

http://civicmirror.com/

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On this episode of the History Tech podcast, Glenn shares 5 of his favorite podcasts to listen to. Podcasting, once an obscure method of spreading information, has become a recognized medium for distributing audio content, whether for corporate or personal use.  Podcasts are similar to radio programs, but they are audio files.  Listeners can play them at their convenience, using devices that have become more common than portable broadcast receivers.

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect 

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect/

How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money to safety and sex for an entire nation? Radiolab‘s first ever spin-off series, More Perfect, dives into the rarefied world of the Supreme Court to explain how cases deliberated inside hallowed halls affect lives far away from the bench.

This American Life 

https://www.thisamericanlife.org

Most weeks This American Life is the most popular podcast in the country, with around 2.5 million people downloading each episode.  Podcast content is the same as the radio broadcast, except on occasion when we include extra material on the podcast that had to be cut for time.

Hidden Brain

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain

The Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain’s host Shankar Vedantam reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know 

http://tmsidk.com 

Three celebrity panelists listen as contestants come on stage before a live audience and try to wow them with a fascinating fact, a historical wrinkle, a new line of research — anything, really, as long as it’s interesting, useful and true (or at least true-ish). There’s a real-time human fact-checker on hand to filter out the bull. The panel — an eclectic mix of comedians, brainiacs, and other high achievers — poke and prod the contestants, and ultimately choose a winner.

Ted Radio Hour

http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2017-03-03

The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create. Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections.

 

 

Host of History Tech: Glenn Wiebe

Twitter: @glennw98

Web:  historytech.wordpress.com

Today on History Tech Glenn talks 3D and virtual reality.  VR can model the world in an incredibly visual way.  You can virtually hike the Grand Canyon or take a class trip to ancient Egypt.  And, it can also allow those worlds to be expanded and shrunk, played with and entered.

Google Cardboard – Experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and affordable way.

Google Expeditions – With Expeditions, teachers can take students on immersive, virtual journeys.

Google Street View – Explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, event arenas, and small businesses with Street View.

Youtube Virtual Reality – This is YouTube’s official VR channel.  It features the newest and best VR-ready videos on the platform.  Now get ready to do what you’d never dare, catch a concert a continent away, or take a trip out of this world.

Discovery VR – For more than 30 years, Discovery has told stories like no one else — transporting you to places you didn’t know existed and sparking curiosity at every turn. Now we enter a new chapter. Virtual Reality can take you to new worlds like never before, immersing you in time, space and story. Here’s a first look at our latest productions in this exhilarating new space — from shark-infested shipwrecks to freeboarding the windiest street in the world — with much more to come. Welcome to Discovery VR.

Within – Within is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual reality. We bring together the best immersive experiences from the world’s finest VR creators—from gripping tales set in worlds of pure imagination to documentaries taking you further inside the news than ever before.

NYTVR – Embed with Iraqi forces during a battle with ISIS. Take a meditation journey to the California coast. Climb to the top of One World Trade Center. Set foot on a planet three billion miles from the sun. Experience stories in an immersive, 360-degree video experience, reported by our award-winning journalists.

Host of History Tech: Glenn Wiebe

Twitter: @glennw98

Web:  historytech.wordpress.com

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Sometimes you just need a helping hand getting out of the same old same old to add something new to a lesson that might just be missing that something or engaging the student windows10explained actor.  In this weeks edition of History Tech Glenn introduces you to 7 Nontraditional Primary Source Places To Go for your students to find material they can use.

 

* Newsela.com – is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that is always relevant: daily news.  It is easy and amazing.

* Google Expeditions – enabling teachers to take students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space.  Expeditions are collections of linked virtual reality content and supporting materials that can be used alongside existing curriculum.

* Smithsonian Learning Lab – is a major rethinking of how the digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, nine major research centers, the National Zoo, and more can be used together for learning.

* DocsTeach – access thousands of primary sources from letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other documents spanning the course of American history.

* Arizona Geographic Alliance – features a wide selection of classroom ready maps.  Some of their programs, GeoLiteracy (2003) and GeoMath (2005), have been nationally recognized by the National Council for Social Studies.

* Chronicling America – is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

* World Digital Library – is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of Windows 10 Professional OEM Key the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

Host of History Tech: Glenn Wiebe

Twitter: @glennw98

Web:  historytech.wordpress.com

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Glenn continuous his conversation with Ashley Naranjo and Darren Milligan about the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access.  Ashley is a Learning Initiatives Specialist and Darren is Senior Digital Strategist.  In 2016 the Lab was named Top 10 Tech by the School Library Journal.

“…the Smithsonian Learning Lab emerges as a new standard of curation, with a beautiful, image-driven interface that invites users to make meaning from a wealth of resources.”

Kathy Ishizuka, Executive Editor of School Library Journal.L

Glenn, Ashley, and Darren talk you through how to connect with the Learning Lab, the tools available for teachers and students to utilize, and cool things Smithsonian.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

Twitter:  @SmithsonianLab

Facebook:  Facebook.com/smithsonianeducation

Ashley Naranjo

Learning Initiatives Specialist

Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, Smithsonian Institution

 

 

 

Darren Milligan

Senior Digital Strategist

Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, Smithsonian Institution

 

 

 

Host of History Tech Glenn Wiebe

Twitter: @glennw98

Web:  historytech.wordpress.com

 

 

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Glenn connects with Ashley Naranjo and Darren Milligan with the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access.  Ashley is Learning Initiatives Specialist and Darren is Senior Digital Strategist.  In 2016 the ab was named Top 10 Tech by the School Library Journal.

“…the Smithsonian Learning Lab emerges as a new standard of curation, with a beautiful, image-driven interface that invites users to make meaning from a wealth of resources.”  Kathy Ishizuka, Executive Editor of School Library Journal.L

Glenn, Ashley, and Darren talk you through how to connect with the Learning Lab, the tools available for teachers and students to utilize, and cool things Smithsonian.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

Twitter:  @SmithsonianLab

Facebook:  Facebook.com/smithsonianeducation

 

Ashley Naranjo

Learning Initiatives Specialist

Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, Smithsonian Institution

Ages Primary (5 to 8 years old), Intermediate (9 to 12 years old), Middle School (12 to 15 years old)

Language Arts And English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Arts

 

 

 

Darren Milligan

Senior Digital Strategist

Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, Smithsonian Institution

 

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Do  you want the ability to do lots and lots of things with only one tool?

Creating a timeline is not always a simple task, however technology is making it easier.  A couple of Glenn’s favorite tools for creating timelines are the free web-based tools called Padlet and HSTRY.

Padlet not only can be used for collaboration, but can help you  build a functional and chronological presentation with text, dates, images and even videos for a visually appealing and stimulating timeline.

HSTRY seems perfect for the “show me what you know” styles of assessment in standards-based classrooms. It is designed for historical timelines, but there are infinite possibilities for creating projects.

Both Padlet and HSTRY  give you the ability to align timelines with C4 Framework elements, state standards, and Common Core Literacy Standards for History / Government.

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