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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Let’s take maps, for example.

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HOT QR Codes in the Classroom & Library

The Daring Librarian

On the back of my Sephora catalog, windows of shops, and in my library! Through “scanning” the code by way of photographing it, and installing a a FREE APP or simple piece of software to your smartphone, anyone can access the information behind the QR which might contain images, easily launched website links, and text.

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10 Tools to Help you Flip Your Classroom

The Electric Educator

Camtasia Studio : The leading screen casting software title on the market. Google Docs : You will be creating lots of presentations and handouts in your flipped classroom. Google Docs lets you do the common word-processing tasks. The benefit of using Google Docs is that your files live in the cloud and are updated in real-time.

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Flip your classroom through reverse instruction

The Electric Educator

The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Take, for example, the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It is one of the world''s literary repositories and one of the largest libraries in the world. Organization is key for such a large library. Others were simply Google Docs presentations shared on my classroom wiki. Use Google Docs !

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10 Tools to Help you Flip Your Classroom

The Electric Educator

Camtasia Studio : The leading screen casting software title on the market. Google Docs : You will be creating lots of presentations and handouts in your flipped classroom. Google Docs lets you do the common word-processing tasks. The benefit of using Google Docs is that your files live in the cloud and are updated in real-time.

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Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts

Ask a Tech Teacher

Make sure you introduce these domain-specific terms: Attribution Non-derivative works Share alike Non-commercial Show older students how to adjust the Google search engine to provide only images in the public domain. Discuss how this story confused fiction with reality if listeners missed the first ten minutes.

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Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts

Ask a Tech Teacher

Show students how to adjust the Google search engine to provide only images in the public domain. Wiki Images. Take the mystery out of copyrights –by the Library of Congress. Students can use software such as KidPix, Paint, Photoshop, and GIMP, or an image creation tool like: BigHugeLabs. Non-commercial. Open Photo.