Have Fun With History!

American History Teachers, homeschoolers, and history buffs now have an online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources - because history is fun!

This website can make your American History class even more fun. It has history videos, activities, subjects and more.

Using PREZI on the classroom

I've written about Prezi before on the Amschool Web 2.0 Resource Blog.

Prezi is a zooming digital presentation editor. I’ts simply cooler than powerpoints.

This amazing tool has offered FREE license to educators who are willing to use it actively in their classrooms. This license includes a 500 MB of space storage which is a lot. Still you can use the 100 MB they offer to anyone for free.

If you want to see how Prezi works check this "7 Wonders of the World" Presentation:

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World on Prezi

If you liked it just sign in to have your own account. If you want to know what to do with it in the classroom just follow this simple 8 ways:

A Valentines Interactive Book

This interactive book about valentines can help students learn about valentines day. Students can actually play puzzles, match words, watch videos in the book.

Teachers can use their ebeam or interactive whiteboards to make the class more fun.

More Resoureces:

The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day

Learning About The Haiti Earthquake

Larry Ferlazzo, created a list of resources to learn about the earthquake in Haiti.

This are just some of the sites he included on the list. If you want to check the rest of themjust go to his blogsite.

A Tent in Port-au-Prince is a panoramic view of life inside a tent for a Haitian family. It’s from The New York Times.

Eyewitness in Haiti is a slideshow from LIFE.

Haiti: Three Weeks Later is from The Boston Globes’ Big Picture.

The New York Times has posted a panoramic view inside the devastated Cathedral in Haiti. You can certainly get a sense of the strength of the earthquake by looking at it.

Two new infographics just came out showing which countries are giving how much to help victims of Haiti’s earthquake:

One is from the British newspaper The Guardian and is quite easy to understand.

The other is from GOOD Magazine and looks far cooler, but the information is not particularly accessible (at least to me).Stephen Downes also points out that Canada’s sizable contribution is not included in it.

Major Earthquake Hits Haiti is a collection of all Washington Post photos on the disaster. The Post also has a special page on the quake that’s regularly updated.

Hope for Haiti Event Raises Millions is a Breaking News lesson for ELL’s.

CNN has an incredible 360 degree video from Haiti. I have never seen a 360 degree video before. Thanks to Jerry Swiatek for the tip.

The Big Picture has The Faces of Haiti.

Here’s a good interactive map.

The BBC has a very interesting interactive map and information on relief supplies getting to the island.

Educating Students About Online Behavior

I ran into an interesting You Tube Channel for students to learn about online safety.

The channel is called Safety Center Videos

Museum of Animal Perspectives

The Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.) collects and displays wildlife
imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. The M.A.P. is curated and coded by video naturalist Sam Easterson. Most remotely sensed videos and photos that are presented on this URL are embedded within the website by using codes that are readily suppliedby Flickr and YouTube.

The videos are geolocated on a Google Map according to where they are typically found in the world. The Museum of Animal Perspectives could be a handy resource for elementary school and middle school science teachers who would like to provide their students with videos, in geographic context, of animals their students are learning about. -Richars Byrne-