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It's Here! The 2010 Summer Institute!
August 2-12, 2010
Click Here to go to the Summer Institute Wiki Page. You'll find directions, schedules, materials, resources, and much, much more!
Welcome MACUL Conference Attendees!
March 10-12, 2010
Link to the prezi CLICK HERE!
Thanks for visiting the site and for coming to our session at the conference! TAH Participants are the only ones who can contribute to this wiki, but please feel free to contribute to the wiki that was set up for the MACUL session.
TAH Participants: If you haven't looked in to MACUL (MI Association of Computer Users in Learning) you might want to. It is a vibrant professional organization with more technology resources than you can shake a flash drive at!
Thanks for a great NCHE Colloquium!
February 25-27, 2010
Click Here to go to the "Colloquium 2010" page to view and contribute! even though the colloquium has ended, its digital spirit will live on! When you're teaching something we talked about months down the road, all you need to do is refer back to this site!
Remember - This is YOUR site! YOU can author content. YOU can edit. YOU can post docs, videos, and images! Do it!
Can't open a file posted here?
You might notice that some of the files posted on this site end with ".docx" or ".pptx". Newer versions of Microsoft Office applications use this file format and they aren't immediately viewable if you have an older version of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. But don't worry! Microsoft offers a small software component you can install that will allow you open the files. Click Here to go to Microsoft's site and download the component. Once installed, you should be good to go!
About This Project...
The West Shore Consortium for Dynamic History Instruction has been offering professional deveolopment opportunities to 5th - 12th grade US History teacher in West Michigan since the winter of 2006. During that time, nearly 200 individual teachers have attended at least one event. Many have attended multiple events. The result has been a huge amount of growth and learning among teachers from more nearly 20 unique school districts.
More than once, teachers have asked for a way to collaboritively share not only what they learn during events, but also what they discover once they return to their classroom with what they've learned at a Consortium event.
This site is yours. As a US History teacher, you possess the knowledge, experience, and resources to make this site a powerful resource for you and your colleagues. Consider this: If everyone involved with the Consortium contributed just ONE lesson plan, we would already have amassed 200 lesson plans for everyone to use. What if you have an ok lesson plan, but need some suggestions on what would make it great? Post it here and dozens of other teachers can dig right in and edit your work. What if you know of a great website that would really enhance what another teacher is trying to do? Edit their lesson plan to add the website and a quick note.
So, why is a Wiki so special, anyway?
Put quite simply, it's a collaborative webpage. Let's take a minute to ponder the word "collaborative". Many webpages are "interactive" today, and many of us (and probably more or our students) are quite comfortable with this idea. You can leave a comment on a blog or you can comment on a news story. When you do this, you're interacting with the content that's already there, but not changing it or adding to it. We can't log into the local television news station website and change the content of the news story...and that's probably a good thing. But with a Wiki, everyone who has access to the site can edit it...work with it...enhance and enrich it. You are no longer restricted to leaving a comment about an unchangeable piece of content. Rather, in the context of the Wiki you're using, you are one of many authors, editors, and proofreaders.
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