blog post #10

What tools and techniques discussed in this weeks video interview could I use in my class room?

By: Noah Armstrong 

Well as far as people who Dr. Strange has shown us who use blogs and technology this week's was one that I actually found a good bit of insight. being a secondary education student I see a lot of the projects we do based more toward small children. Therefor, I sometimes have trouble seeing its application merit in a high school History classroom, but as I said this week was better.  

I found a few good ideas I think would transfer over well. I have been playing around with the idea of a biweekly blog post by my future students of around 500 words on a history topic that fallows what unit we are in and the sights mentioned that this teacher uses to find college classes to comment on her students blogs seems like a good idea to give some real world credibility to their work rather than just the idea of doing it for me as a teacher so they get the grade. 

The tool being used that caught my eye the most however, was not in the interview. It was in her class video where they were using Skype to talk to a geologist about rocks. I think if I could find a professor that would take some time out of their schedule to just field some questions by my students that might insight a true debate and actually get my students interested and taking sides on issues of history it could really be a turning point in the year.