Educational website

I found this really great website for history teachers! The page is created by Susan M. Pojer who is a history teacher at Horace Greeley High school in New York. This page is great because of its' enormous selection of resources and links she provides for her students and other teachers. On the website she shares history projects and Powerpoints that she has used in her classes. It is neat because this site is really beneficial to the student's as well because she has Advanced Placement study guides and study centers for the students to practice their knowledge and prepare for the test. Susan M. Pojer's site was even recognized nationally because there was an article about her site on the New York Times. In my ETEC class we discuss the importance of implementing technology in our classrooms and Susan shared her same beliefs in her statement in the New York Times, "history can no longer exist without technology, because research is the major component of historical study." Check out this website!

Blog Post #2

Viewing other blogs I read a variety of comments that readers had left. I noticed comments that shared their reasons why they supported or opposed what the author of the blog had written. I also saw many comments that expressed their personal experiences with the authors to console or support him/her. I think people post comments on blogs for the same reason people create personal blogs which is to share personal thoughts. Posting blogs and comments is like a ripple effect of stirring more thoughts and curiosity about different perspectives that are presented. One thought or ideas lead to more thinking and generates more ideas.

Blog Post #1

I am a secondary education major and my content area is social studies. While I was searching for blogs that could be useful to my future teaching career I stumbled onto Dan McDowell's blog. He is a History teacher at West Hills High School. He had a blog that shared his experience with teaching children. He wrote about different lesson plans that worked and shared the one's that did not work as well. He provided links to the resources he had implemented in his classroom. The great thing about his blog was it also had a homepage that had links to his personal lesson plans and instructional web designs that people could go over. McDowell even had an area where he interacted with his students and their parents through the Internet which I thought was a great way to get everyone involved with technology.
I thought this blog could be useful to my future teaching career because of the numerous resources that McDowell had provided. I think it is important that teachers have countless of resources that they can depend on because it can only improve their teaching methods and philosophy. Reading other teacher's experiences can help teachers to learn what may or may not work when teaching a class as well. If there are History teachers in need of a good resource check out this blog!
http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/wordpress/