Edmodo

    If you are a teacher and you are not using Edmodo, well, you are just  clueless.  It is the quickest, easiest way to share with students and allow the students to collaborate or share with each other.  It operates like Facebook so the learning curve for use with regards to the students could not be shorter.  I can not say it is the same for teachers.
   
   File sharing is probably the best feature for me so far.  Since I am trying the flipped classroom the students have easy access to power points, screencasts, podcasts, documents and links to webpages and videos.  After a little practice it is so easy.  You can even administer quizzes and it not only grades it for you but will break down the most missed, etc.  Just amazing!!

   

Flipped Classroom

I am trying on experiment this year.  It is going well in some classes but not in others.  Advanced students seem to be able to keep pace and access the technology outside of the classroom more consistently and successfully.  I am have not tried video yet, I think I will try voice over a powerpoint. then maybe a video in the classroom.  I have had some medical difficulties but I will try to post here more frequently now.

A successful flipped classroom serves students so well in today's connected world.  Wish me luck. I will keep you posted.

Historian Rock Star - Walter Borneman

The next great up...Walter Borneman!!!!  He has quietly, well not so lately, been writing excellent readable narrative history for years.  I am proud to day that I own several of his works and am currently reviewing The French and Indan War, Deciding the Fate of North America.  It sits proudly on the shelf next to Dr. Fred Anderson's The War That Made America and Parkman's book on Wolfe and Montcalm.  Check out Borneman's latest on the only four men to make the rank of fleet admiral in Admirals.  Thank you for all of your great work!  I just your Polk volume on my Amazon wish list!