History and My Story

Here are the finished VoiceThread projects.  How do you think your class did compared to the others?  Obviously, the larger classes (D and C) had the advantage and have an impressive number of comments and countries included.  In the next few days I will be reviewing all of your work and then you will be assigned questions [...]

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Green Day has been all over the television this weekend giving interviews, concerts and promoting their newest album (or do just say CD now?). We’ve talked in here about how differently artistic messages can be interpreted. (Btw–the Pearl Jam song I couldn’t think of is “Alive.”) During one the interviews I saw [...]

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American University graduate and Meet The Press moderator, David Gregory, explains Obama’s position and Cheney’s criticism concerning the detainees currently held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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And here is an interesting take on Gitmo from the Russian perspective. [...]

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I don’t why I didn’t think of this sooner, but the U.S. Army has a terrific website–that I stumbled upon quite accidentally while looking for inspiration for a Memorial Day post.
Among the wealth of information about a variety of topics I saw this video that puts history in perspective. Crazy to think that a [...]

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As I’ve been telling you in class, I really like Twitter and see it as a very useful site to communicate with students and parents.  Please check out my accounts and let me know what you think here.
http://twitter.com/ClassUpdate for homework and updates on our class.  I am just getting this going…next year I plan on [...]

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Truthfully, just too much going on today to do this post justice…but I wrote alot last year so if you are curious about today’s holiday check out my post from May 5th 2008 here.  Anyone up for answering the questions I posed last year can do so by commenting on this post.

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