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Welcome to 8th Grade Social Studies

August 24th, 2010 by · No Comments · welcome

Parents and students let’s stay connected! Simply subscribe to this class blog by using your email address (subscription area is in the left hand column). This will give you updates to assignments and reminders for homework and project due dates automatically. You can unsubscribe at the end of the school year by simply managing your account. I will also post test dates and review secessions on this blog.

In addition, if you use an RSS reader (like Google Reader) you may subscribe to this blog by using the links in the left hand column.

This will help us all stay in touch this upcoming school year.

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Atomic bomb images from Life.com

August 22nd, 2010 by · No Comments · Life Photos, News

This Story is available at this link from the Washington Post

A sensitive spot in an enduring alliance

Article | With a U.S. delegation in attendance for the first time, a Japanese ceremony Friday commemorating history’s first atomic bomb attack coincided with renewed hopes that President Obama will visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, something no sitting U.S. president has done.

* Video: U.S. joins Hiroshima memorial

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Digital Storytelling in Plain English

September 28th, 2009 by · No Comments · Video

by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) From Free Technology for Teachers

If you’re someone who has heard the term “digital storytelling” but you’re still not sure what that really means, take a few minutes to watch this video created in the Common Craft style. The video was created by a group of students in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program.

This video should be helpful in explaining some of the options for the project we are working on. We are using Windows Movie Maker, Photostory 3 and PowerPoint as our tools for creating digital stories.

Digital Storytelling in Plain English from Michael Saccullo on Vimeo.


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Scavenger Hunt Through History

February 21st, 2009 by · No Comments · Video

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/01/scavenger-hunt-through-history.html

Scavenger Hunt Through History is a game designed to be played by students in junction with Freedom: A History of US produced by PBS. Freedom: A History of US contains is an overview of US history containing videos, documents, and pictures. In addition to the resources previously mentioned, their are quizzes for students to test their knowledge. True to form, PBS offers in-depth teaching guides for each episode in the Freedom series.

Applications for Education
Freedom: A History of US is designed as a sixteen part series of webisodes. You can use all of the webisodes in sequence or use just one episode as it fits your curriculum. The series and the games that accompany it could be good review resources or individualized learning experiences.

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Remix America – Make Your Own US History Documentaries

February 21st, 2009 by · No Comments · Video

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Remix America is a new website that allows you to create your own documentary US History videos. Using the video editing technology developed by Kaltura, users can grab video clips, add images, add soundtracks, and mix them together. The editing process is made easy by the drag and drop interface. Drag and drop the elements you want included in your video, arrange the sequence and Remix America does the rest. You can use the media hosted on Remix America to create your video or use media that you already have saved on your computer to create your video.

Watch the demonstration video below. (If you’re reading this in RSS you may need to visit the blog directly to see the video).
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Applications for Education
Remix America is a great way for students to create digital presentations about topics in US History. If your students found enough video clips and images, they could produce a video history of the United States from 1776 through today.

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Trailer from the Movie Ciderella Man

December 30th, 2008 by · No Comments · Video

We will be viewing the movie from Jan. 29th to Feb 3rd in the Little Theater.
 

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Want to know HowStuffWorks?

December 27th, 2008 by · No Comments · Reference


Here is a great site for resources on how things work including history and many other questions you may have. It is from the Discovery Channel and it is called How Stuff Works and it was recommmended by my friend Dan in Florida. Chech it out and find out How Stuff Works.

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How to use Movie Maker

December 26th, 2008 by · No Comments · Video

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: movie_maker blog)

From US History Teachers Blog
Here is an additional link from my friend Danny in Florida. It is a great source for using Movie Maker.
Thanks Dan

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Funny Video about a Bad Winter Morning

December 21st, 2008 by · No Comments · Comedy, Video

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The Week in Rap 12-19-2008

December 20th, 2008 by · No Comments · The Week in Rap, Video


The Week in Rap 12-19-08 from Week in Rap on Vimeo.

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