Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 28, 2011
Help! I am a teacher and would like my students to look in newspapers for what happened on their birthday. Does anyone know where we can go so they can actually see the newspaper, like microfiche? Contemporary newspaper archives and digitized copies of newspapers published before the Internet make the popular “Today in History” or “What [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 19, 2011
This class changed my teaching forever. It was powerful! Congratulations to science teacher Stacey Balbach who will be speaking about Primary Sources Science at the National Science Teachers Convention in March 2012. Way to go! When she was a student in Teaching With Primary Sources, a Wisconsin science teacher discovered primary sources are not just [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 14, 2011
It’s Personal! Transforming Pedagogy with Technology was the theme of this year’s very well attended annual TIES technology conference. As always I came home with new resources and ideas to incorporate in online courses. Web Tools for Grades 4-8 In-Depth Inquiry captured my attention; two teachers shared easy to implement ideas such as using Todaysmeet.com [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 5, 2011
When I visited Ford’s theater earlier this year I learned walking tours of downtown DC led by “Mrs. Keckely” are offered. Bummer! I would have loved to learn more about Mrs. Keckley’s neighborhood, but was unable to go for a tour that day. I met Mrs. Keckley in Mrs. Keckly* and Mrs. Lincoln, a fascinating biography [...]
