This week in class there were two teacher sites in my field of social studies:
This website chronicles the top 100 American speeches, providing both text and audio versions of the speech. I will most definitely use this in my future classroom. I think providing the students with the actual words that were said at the time through the use of primary source documents, contemporary literature and video/audio clips is absolutely critical in giving them the opportunity to fully understand the historical period that is being studied.
This website is actually a blog that is set up to document historical reenactments via the use of the technology Twitter. In this respect, different individuals take on specific roles and reenact certain historical events such as the Battle of Gettysburg through "tweets". I could possibly use this in my future classroom, although I would probably think having the students do reenactment skits might be a better alternative.
POST CLASSThis week's readings revolved around how to produce videos. They were as follows:
This website documents how to effectively prepare for and carry out a video interview. It contains links to tutorials on how to create different kinds of interviews (i.e.: studio, mobile, and remote) while also providing resources on how to organize yourself before going out to do an interview (i.e.: framing, interview structure, and composition).
- Thirteen Steps to Better Instructional Visuals for Electronic Presentation- Dave Pavlik, Allan Schmidt
This article documented thirteen pieces of advice for educators when preparing electronic presentations, such as digital stories. The two points that I found most useful were 1) don't squeeze too much information on the page, and 2) organize basic presentation outline.
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