Catch me at SITE
This week I'll be professionally goofing around with some good friends at the SITE Conference...Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education. I know, they left off a "T" in SITE. I'll be presenting a couple of times. My big presentation is about a project I lead called the Digital Historical Inquiry Project (dhip.org). Sounds kind of boring, but it's pretty cool. It's about preparing social studies teachers to use online primary sources with their students. The goal is to have students "do history" rather than learn about history.
My main contribution to the presentation will be my work with Web Inquiry Projects, or WIPs as I like to call them. WIPs are a teaching strategy teachers can use to use online resources to promote inquiry in the classroom. Hundreds of WIPs are created by pre-service teachers at SDSU each year. Examples can be seen at the WIP web site. I'll save a full-blown write-up on WIPs for another day.
If you're going to be at SITE, I hope to see you there.
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I'm sitting in the back of the room during your presentation here and have to say that yours and all the other DHIP presentations have been the best thing I've seen here. Well done!
And... recursively enough, there's a guy in the row in front of me who is blogging your session in realtime. Looking over his shoulder, it looks as though his blog is called History Teaching.
Just chatted with him. It's at http://historyteaching.blogspot.com/.
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