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School / Work Affiliation: Jefferson High School, Jefferson OR

Blog: http://jeffrhoades.edublogs.org/

Website: http://jefferson.k12.or.us

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: @rhoadesjeff

About Me: 4th year social studies teacher and varsity basketball coach. Will be graduating with my masters in educational information and technology this June. Right now I'm busy every second of the day, but to be honest I'm loving every minute of it.

Link to CITE journal article on Social Studies and Technology

http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss1/currentissues/socialstudies/article1.htm

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Lesson Ideas for Social Studies and Technology Integration

Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:41pm 0 Comments 1 Like

Fortunately for social studies teachers, many aspects of study in the content areas lend themselves to technology integration. Whether it be researching and creating spreadsheets with data, generating graphs or charts, or creating Web scavenger hunts, ideas abound for using technology in your social studies class today. Using your standards as a guide, modify any of the following ideas to fit your curriculum goals.…

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Social Networking in the Classroom

Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:27pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Our students have actually been far ahead of us as teachers in the world of social networking. A powerful tool that creates instant connection and access to resources from all over the world, social networking has long been in the hands of our students. Since schools have been slow to embrace social networking, students took to self teaching themselves about this new technology. Unfortunately, the majority of students taught themselves to utilize social networking for social and…

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