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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 MissouriTeacher 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

•Interviews with authors•Lesson plans from classroom•Museum visits•Student projects•Comments on ed tech topics•Reflections on teaching•Reviews of online resources

Topics for the podcast varies:

Speaking of History podcast and blog began in June 2005

www.speakingofhistory.blogspot.com

visitors from 145 countries in past two years

50,000 downloads last month

Speaking of History Podcast / Blog VisitorsAugust 2007 to February 2008

Edit audio with a free program named AUDACITY

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 for taking tests

- Books have been read and recorded (with permission)

- Record young students reading for fluency

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

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

This spring students are

conducting family history interviews

Copies for family and local museum

AT&T Grant to create historical information about Liberty using

Guide by Cell technology

Students will narrate museum artifact

information

•Keep content for students simple – no background music

•Allow students to use this tool for other projects

•Suggest USB microphones

Allow students to become

PRODUCERSof the content they use

not just

CONSUMERS

Microsoft’s PhotoStory 3 – create video from still pictures

Microsoft’s MovieMaker2 – create video from video

Free download, easy to use

Boston Massacre LIVE! Newscast

Historical perspective and power of media

Students write the scripts

TV commercials from history using

PhotoStory3

Create a TV election ad for

Lincoln in the 1860 campaign

Create a TV commercial

supporting either the Federalist or Anti-Federalist in the ratification of the Constitution

Liberty Minutes video project

3-5 minute videos on local historical

topics

Hollywood Night

Good source of images is Flickr Storm with images under open Creative Commons

Create a folder of media elements in advance for your students to use

When teaching this program to teachers make it a personal project first to create interest

Keep the projects short – 30 seconds or 1 minute

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

of the world

Guerrilla Season Book Blog Project - Fall of 2006

350 Liberty students with parents, California students, home school students and author

Donner Party Debate

Record class debate

Send experts MP3 of debate and they

respond with comments

Teacher sends the e-mail

10 question limit

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

Online assessment

Quia and QuizStar

Immediate data and feedback

Testing results:

SVJH 8th Grade Social Studies

-Highest score in content area- largest yearly improvement

Eric Langhorst

speakingofhistory@gmail.com

8th Grade American HistorySouth Valley Jr. High

Liberty, Missouri