From the Source

I’m a sucker for primary sources. Ever since we spent six weeks on Lexington and Concord in high school, I’ve loved looking at the actual documents and artificats from history’s particpants. By examining the actual sources, and considering the points of view of their authors, one may paint a more realistic picture of the time, [...]

Posted on April 27th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Write Your Own Textbook

Wikibooks is a project for collaborative development of books online.  The focus is on developing free electronic textbooks that students and teachers can use. More than 1,000 books are in various stages of development for just about every imaginable subject. Looking at Physics, for example, there are four high school physics book projects currently underway, [...]

Posted on April 26th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Fast Graphs

You can quickly and easily create nice-looking graphs at the Students’ Classrom Create a Graph site. Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, this easy-to-use site allows you to create all kinds of different graphs to help visually represent complex data. When you’re finished, you can print your graph, download it in one of [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Math Podcasts

This is the second in a series of posts about podcasts for teaching and learning. A number of podcasts are available to help supplement classroom instruction in a variety of areas. This time, we’ll look at math. The Mathgrad Podcast discusses everyday math for everyday people. The goal is to discuss the mathematics behind many [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2006 by John Schinker
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Time Shifting

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. I’m so used to listening to podcasts that I regularly try to pause or rewind the radio. It’s a little embarassing when I catch myself changing the radio station by mistake. It just seems natural that I should be able to back it up and replay something [...]

Posted on April 20th, 2006 by John Schinker
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