When I teach history to high school or college age students, I maximize the efficient use of visuals. We are all visual learners, no matter what your textual reading level. So, why not engage everyone in your classroom with visuals? This is an image loaded with symbolism. In order to understand the symbolism behind each piece of this image, I teach students how to perform a discovery based learning method -- VTS -- and then I have them use ThingLink to share their findings about the image with the class. Take a peek at this one. Drag your cursor over the "tags" on the image to see what I am talking about.
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Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Reconstruction Era: Visual Teaching andLearning
Labels:
black Americans,
Civil Rights,
confederate,
franchise,
home school,
Jim Crow,
Lincoln,
racism,
Slavery,
teaching,
visual learning,
vote,
voting,
VTS
Monday, February 3, 2014
Barbary Wars: using ThingLink
Click HERE and you'll be directed to how I use THINGLINK to marry up all that the WorldWideWeb has to offer about the Barbary Wars. I start class off with a VTS about this image and let the students try to make sense of it. This is a visual method of introducing the Barbary Wars. THEN, I'll use the Thinglink Tags to broaden our discussion about the Barbary Wars. After exploring the image and talking about the Barbary Wars, I will engage students in a grammactical treatment of the topic.
Labels:
Art,
Islam,
Mameluke sword,
Marine Hymn,
Marine song,
Marines,
Muslims,
O'bannon,
Pirates,
Slavery,
ThingLink,
Thomas Jefferson,
USMC
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