www.speakingofhistory.blogspot.comJuly 18, 2008 post

8th Grade American History at South Valley Jr. High in Liberty, Missouri

Graduate Instructor at Park University teaching

“Technology for the Classroom”

Currently serving as the 2007 / 2008

Missouri Teacher of the Year

A Whole New Mindby Daniel Pink

The World Is Flatby Thomas Friedman

Started my journey in spring of 2005 when I purchased my first

MP3 player

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visitors from 145 countries in past two years

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162,879 podcast downloadsin 2008 to date

Edit audio with a free program named AUDACITY

Teaching the Declaration of Independence as a break up letter

activity podcast

StudyCasts - Record audio review for upcoming test Post MP3 file to the Internet

Students listen at home on Internet, MP3 player, or CD

- Record tests for students who have modifications

- Books have been recorded for students with reading disabilities

- Record young students reading for fluency

Currently part of a pilot using Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player

Transfer pictures, audio and video podcasts with wireless connections – studycasts, presentation notes

AT&T Grant to create historical information about Liberty using

Guide by Cell technology

Students will narrate museum artifact

information

Boston Massacre LIVE! Newscast

Historical perspective and power of media

Students write the scripts

Microsoft’s PhotoStory 3 – create video from still pictures

TV commercials from history using

PhotoStory3

Create a TV election ad for

Lincoln to help him win the presidency

in 1860

Create a TV commercial

supporting either the Federalist or Anti-

Federalist

Students understood the subject more than they ever had before

Liberty Minutes video project

3-5 minute videos on local historical

topics

Hollywood Night with parents and

guests

Need to be using Web 2.0 tools to connect my classroom with the

rest of the world

Guerrilla Season Book Blog Project – 2007 and 2008

350 Liberty students with parents, students in California and Illinois,

home school students and the author in Philadelphia

Donner Party Debate

Record class debate with MP3 player

Send experts MP3 file of debate and they

respond with comments – 2 pages

each

E-Mail an Expert

Teacher sends the e-mail and 10

question limit

Archaeologist answered during a hurricane from her laptop on kitchen floor of her home

Classroom connection on the Internet for parents and students

Online assessment

Quia and QuizStar

Immediate data and

feedback on tests and pretests

South Valley Jr. High 8th Grade Social Studies test results:

-Highest score of any content area

- Largest yearly improvement

Eric Langhorst

speakingofhistory@gmail.com

8th Grade American HistorySouth Valley Jr. High

Liberty, Missouri