History and My Story

I’ve been dying to try out this technology, so our April vacation trip to Washington, DC was a great excuse. The entire family got in on the act—even Aggie!

 
If you’d like to try this on your own–it’s called a VoiceThread.  Any suggestions as to how I could use this with students….it would be neat to [...]

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While preparing for my DC trip with Pat and Ronnie, I’ve been checking out the current exhibits at the United States Holocaust Museum. It is amazing how much more information is currently being shared on-line than ever before. I came across this short video series that delves into the use of propaganda—-how it can contribute [...]

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Go ahead and follow me if you dare…see sidebar. If you are still in the dark—Oprah explains all…plus Ashton Kutcher who is the first person in Twitter history to reach 1 million followers. Craziness.
Note: Took video down because link was broken—apparantly Oprah doesn’t like parts of her show copied and pasted on [...]

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I’m sure you’ve heard of Thomas Friedman and his book The World is Flat  (currently selling in version 3.0).  Here is a lecture he gave at MIT not too long ago about the his groundbreaking work.  The entire lecture is quite long—so if you haven’t got the patience to listen to that much talking over [...]

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By the time you get to my blog over vacation you’ve probably already seen or heard about Susan Boyle and her performance on the British equivalent of American Idol.  Still….it’s just soooo good so I had to post.  Plus, she sang a Les Miserables song….if you see the You Tube version (which has disabled embedding) [...]

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Now that you all have a little world history under your belts you might get some of the jokes on the Onion’s Our Dumb World page.  Click on the pins to read funny “facts” about cities and countries all over the globe.  My favorite = Equatorial Guinea….but remember the site is satire.  You won’t learn [...]

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