Presentation from MSTA 2015. Explains how I transformed my classroom into a training ground for young historians through exploration of a variety of online tools.

1. MORE THAN NAMES AND DATES:
HISTORY CLASSROOMS AS
HISTORIAN BOOTCAMP

2. What I think I do. What my mom thinks I do.

3. What I actually do.

6. Not my
experience

9. EVERY.
SINGLE.
DAY.

10. Those who do not
remember...
blah,
blah,
Blah.

11. The majority of Americans do
not remember the facts they
learned in history class.

12. The majority of Americans do
not remember the facts they
learned in history class.
Most do use skills taught in the
history discipline in their
workplaces and private lives.

13. content
collaboration
creation

14. HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX

15. HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX

17. HISTORIAN’S TOOL BOX

19. content
collaboration
creation

20. Sheg curriculum

21. In my classroom
sourcing
Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration

22. In my classroom
sourcing
Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration

25. Chronicling America

26. Zinn edu. project

27. ad access

28. Life photo archive

29. The Avalon project

30. American art museum
Current online exhibits:
“Great American Hall ofWonders”
“African American Art: Harlem
Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond”
“The Civil War and American Art”
“A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware
Collection of American Baskets”
“Our America:The Latino Presence in
American Art”

31. History sourcebook

32. Spartacus edu.

33. Docs teach

34. Have fun with history

35. American memory

36. Valley of the shadow

37. retronaut

38. In my classroom
sourcing
Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration

39. Do History

40. Common place

41. Beyond the Bubble

44. In my classroom
sourcing
Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration

48. Eyewitness to history

49. Object of History

50. History explorer

51. In my classroom
sourcing
Contextualization
Close-reading
corroboration

55. Google hist. maps

56. Teaching history

57. content
collaboration
creation

59. Get connected!

60. Republic of letters

61. Visualizing emancipation

62. Geographies of the holocaust

63. content
collaboration
creation

65. Ted educational

67. Easel.ly

68. Screencast-o-matic

69. Slideshare

70. Youtube

71. Edublogs

73. Past Simulations:
-Delegates fromWWI Central & Allied
countries seeking alternatives to war
-Government & social influences
during the MexicanWar
-A 17th century philosophes’ salon
-Explorers roundtable during the Age
of Exploration
-Trial of Marin Luther by the Catholic
Church
-Trial of Andrew Jackson

74. Presentation available online:
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