Tag: teaching
Digital Textbooks That are Truly Interactive
What makes a digital textbook interactive? We think it’s more than a fun game or a flashy (not Flash!) banner. It’s text that is accessible to students. It’s purposeful game-like challenges. It’s opportunities to demonstrate knowledge. Because we believe all of these ideas, we’re spending this spring improving our Student Subscriptions to bring students further [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2012 under students, TCI Subscription.
Tags: student engagement, teaching, technology
Comments: 7
Creating Passionate Debates and Fervent Dialogues
In today’s webinar, we discovered that engaging students in debate or whole-class discussions involves a few steps and some rich resources. Here are the guidelines we shared: 1. Challenge students to discuss controversial and complex issues in small groups. 2. Create heterogeneous groups and a suitable classroom arrangement. 3. Prepare students to answer provocative critical [...]
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 under Classroom Management, discussions.
Tags: Classroom Management, secondary social studies, social studies, strategies, teaching
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Great Teaching is Not a Noun
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be at the Kentucky Council for the Social Studies (http://kcss.org). While sitting around talking with teachers and discussing our practice, we came on the subject of “great teaching” and “great teachers.” It struck me, that great teaching and great teachers can not be described with [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2011 under Classroom Technology, Educational Theories, Educational Trends and Issues, Professional Development.
Tags: great teaching, Professional Development, teaching
Comments: 2
Your TCI Subscription: Inserting Images in Presentations
One nifty way that teachers can customize their TCI Presentations is by adding images. This short video will show you how. But wait! There’s more! You’ll also get Great Places to Find Images, our handout that’s chock full of links to super duper image sites that provide free, interesting, and useful images for teachers.
Posted: September 1st, 2011 under Classroom Technology, TCI Subscription, Using Your TCI Subscription.
Tags: Images, social studies, TCI Subscriptions, teaching
Comments: 2
Your TCI Subscription: How to Add Students
This is the first in a series of blogs highlighting a nifty feature in the TCI Subscriptions. In this short video, we show you three easy ways to add students to your classes.
Posted: August 16th, 2011 under TCI Subscription, Using Your TCI Subscription.
Tags: TCI Teacher Subscription, teaching, technology
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TCI and Technology: Endless Possibilities for Student Engagement
About 25 years ago, my friend Bob predicted the e-book reader. One day we were having a spirited discussion about the future of books. Bob, a sales representative for a high-tech company, posited that the printed book would someday be available in electronic form. Coming from the perspective of an editor who had always developed [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2011 under Classroom Technology, World Cultures Alive!.
Tags: ipad, student engagement, teaching, world history
Comments: 1
ToonDoo – Teachers & Summer Break
By Brian_ThomasTCI | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon
Posted: May 13th, 2011 under Educational Trends and Issues, Professional Development, Web 2.0 Tips and Tools.
Tags: education, humor, teaching
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How Can I Help Take Care of the World?
Earth Day is April 22nd! Here’s another in our free lesson series to get ready. This lesson is from TCI’s kindergarten Social Studies Alive! Me and My World program but can be used in all lower elementary grades. Kids work in pairs to explore reducing, reusing and recycling. How Can I Help Take Care of [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2011 under Challenging Students, Educational Theories, Educational Trends and Issues, groupwork, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, students, Writing.
Tags: Earth Day, elementary education, Free Lesson Plans, history, social studies, teaching
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The iPad as a Teaching Slate
Many teachers and schools are snapping up iPads, especially since the iPad2 has dropped the price of the 1st gen. How could you use the iPad in class as a teaching tool? Alive in Five shares a nifty app called Splashtop ($4.99) from the iTunes store that allows you to use your iPad as a [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2011 under Classroom Technology, Educational Trends and Issues, History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism, Web 2.0 Tips and Tools.
Tags: Apple, education, ipad, itunes, splashtop, teaching
Comments: 4
E-Learning: A ToonDoo to Ponder
Think e-learning is better naturally? Interaction is more than click, drag, paste. It’s still found in meaningful instruction. Try our TCI programs out for 30 days-free. We use the tech, but in a meaningful way! Visit http://info.teachtci.com/trial/ today! By Brian_ThomasTCI | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon
Posted: February 10th, 2011 under Challenging Students, Classroom Technology, Educational Theories, Educational Trends and Issues, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, students, TCI info, Teaching Strategies, Web 2.0 Tips and Tools.
Tags: 21st century learning, e-learning, education, students, teaching
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