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Recently I've given my students two extra credit options:

1. Make a Google Map that highlights the 13 original colonies. The need to embed a picture in the placemark and give relevant information about the uniqueness of that colony.
2. Create a video that can be uploaded to Youtube that shows them acting out either colonists who wish to separate awat from Great Britain, or Loyalists who can't understand why the colonists would ever want to do such a thing.

Epic Epoch would like to announce the first ever student generated video contest!


WHY: Because student films are fun.  If other people can learn from them, why show them only in class?  Unleash the power of film as a media onto the world!  Let the galaxy see your ingenious creation.  Share it with the [...]

Seeing as how I’m a history teacher, seeing a really great time line is like seeing Earth from space. Buffoonery aside, it might be similar to the common bond created between a science teacher and a really well done version of the periodic table of elements.  I’m guessing.
So when I stumbled upon thismoment, I [...]

I'm not much of a poet, and I.....am not going to make that joke. Many a poem has been written that I do not understand, but that doesn't prevent me from appreciating one.

Yesterday afternoon as I was pushing my cart around Trader Joe’s, I received the coveted email I had been waiting for on my Blackberry:
Congratulations!
You have been selected to participate in the Google Teacher Academy. After reviewing your application, we believe that you have the experience and passion necessary to positively impact education in your region, [...]

Harvard University recently revealed that they would offer a class - for credit - based on one of my personal favorite show, HBO's The Wire.

Using the Name Picker template in a Flipchart