Kategori: Teaching

  • Timelines in OneNote

    Timelines in OneNote

    - How can we help our stu­dents to con­nect the top­ics we teach? 1: Timelines as different tables on the canvas This exer­cise uti­lizes 3 cool fea­tures of OneNote: I sim­ply cre­at­ed a page with 6 con­tent box­es con­tain­ing a time­line each of a his­to­ry course, and then dis­trib­uted the page to the indi­vid­ual stu­dent sections.…

  • Be aware and exercise your #Google #criticism

    Be aware and exercise your #Google #criticism

    This is an idea for a his­to­ry les­son on “search machine-criticism”: Homework: Watch this video [arve url=“https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en#t‑177480” title=“Google bubbles” /]   In class; Test the assertions/claims in the video by chang­ing loca­tion and Google accounts: Google the same key­word from dif­fer­ent IP adress­es: at home, in school or at work and take screen­shots of the results. Ask…

  • 2: Collaboration Project with @CenterStreet86 and her class

    2: Collaboration Project with @CenterStreet86 and her class

    My school par­tic­i­pat­ed in a region­al project with 6 oth­er schools try­ing to come up with ideas to bring the world into the class­room oth­er than embark­ing on expen­sive study trips. Inspired by this, I blogged 5 ideas to for a con­nect­ed K12 edu­ca­tor class­room , and luck­i­ly Lau­ra Hansen, Seat­tle respond­ed to this: All sound awe­some!!…

  • 1: Classroom discussion in a Sharepoint newsfeed

    1: Classroom discussion in a Sharepoint newsfeed

    Although I don’t like to be used as a pawn in the big EdtechGame of Thrones between Google and Microsoft, I am vain enough to fall for tricks like being accept­ed in ye olde knight­hood of Microsofts Inno­vate Edu­ca­tors and OneNote super­hero capes 🙂 In order to become a Microsoft Inno­v­a­tive Edu­ca­tor you have to brag pub­licly…

  • Digital tools in the #history classroom

    Digital tools in the #history classroom

    Presentation for plenary session on Council of Europe Belgrade seminar, 29/10 2015 This is my first vis­it to Bel­grade so I hope there will be time to see the city. My name is Lars Hen­rik­sen and I have been teach­ing his­to­ry in upper sec­ondary school for 15 years. Over this peri­od of time, my use of text­books…

  • 5 ideas for a #connected humanities #k12 classroom

    5 ideas for a #connected humanities #k12 classroom

    I would like to con­nect my stu­dents with stu­dents in anoth­er coun­try. Maybe it does­n’t have to be very time-con­sum­ing, if you start with very small assign­ments- and then see what happens. First, one should ask the stu­dents, what online social ice­break­er activ­i­ties to start with, when you meet new peo­ple online — maybe there should be…