Susan's Colleagues

Susan's Discussions

Started Jan 5, 2009 0 Replies 0 Likes

About Me: I teach 8th grade U.S. History and GT History in Grapevine, Texas. I am a risk taker who is interested in bringing in a wide variety of technology into the classroom.

At 10:09pm on August 30, 2009, Jane Krauss said…: Hi Susan, I think you should seek Paul Bogush here on clrm 2.0 or through google. He's 8th gr SS too and very collaborative.

At 7:49pm on August 22, 2009, David Hilton said…: A Skype debate between classes is exactly the kind of thing I would like to organise with someone Susan, however I think the time differences might be prohibitive. It would also require a visit with flowers to our school network administrators - they even block us from YouTube! If you'd like to find someone to organise it with, can I suggest posting on our History Teachers group forum.
Good luck!

At 4:23am on June 6, 2009, David Hilton said…: Hi Susan
My name’s David and I’m a history teacher in Queensland, Australia. I use a lot of podcasting and online tools with my classes and am always looking for new ideas.
I host a group on diigo (it’s similar to delicious and very popular with teachers) for history teachers to share links, ideas and resources. It’s at http://groups.diigo.com/groups/history-teachers.
Please come along and join and share any sources or resources you use with the rest of us. See you there.
Regards,
David Hilton
Ancient & Modern History Teacher
Sheldon College, Capalaba.

At 6:52pm on February 1, 2009, Jack said…: Hi Susan. I was wondering if you have students or educator contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 8:24pm on January 13, 2009, Terry Parent said…: I love your idea of using the Socratic dialect! I too have never tried Skype in the classroom, but can learn fast. We can create different worlds on each of our ends of the Skype network, Northern Industrial (Hamilton) / Southern Agrarian (Jefferson).

We could also schedule times where one of us could have a students prepare a statement of ideals or updates in our particular worlds, almost like a Fireside Chat format; however, your class will be able to ask questions afterward.

On a different date, or on the same date, you would do the same. I can see this working if I can get my class to really act the part.

This was just my initial brainstorm after reading your reply. Let's throw ideas around. I will have Chris read our thread, maybe we can include his class as well.

At 5:04pm on January 12, 2009, Terry Parent said…: Hi Susan,

I read your post in the forum about Skyping. I teach 8th grade U.S. History. I was wondering if you would want to collaborate on a project using Skype? How far are you in your curriculum? We've already completed the section, but I was thinking about a Bill of Rights debate series a while back.

Also, do your students blog? I'm trying to build a strong audience for student blogs we just we just launched. We discuss current events and such. Thanks for considering!

At 2:10am on January 5, 2009, James Edward Charles Webber said…: Welcome there!
Jim

At 7:37pm on January 4, 2009, Johnathan Chase said…: Popular music and lyrics are also great for engaging middle school students and introducing topics/projects in American History