http://history9.learnerblogs.org writing about the past to figure out the present--a class blog for the world to read Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:17:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With today's tools, you can actually make products of the quality below.  So watch this video--watch it with the eye of a movie-maker, noticing how it was made--and start collecting stuff on your blogs, and writing your ideas, for your own project. The topic itself is very interesting too.  The internet ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/03/an-example-of-what-i-want-your-project-to-look-like/ "Animal School" is quite an allegory. This is not an assignment, but I'd love to hear your thoughts in "comments".  Maybe you'll want to show it to friends, parents, or teachers.  Do you recognize anyone in this school?  (No names.) I'd also like you to notice the form of expression.  Would this ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/20/which-animal-are-you/ This is a cross-post from spells, my English classes' class blog.  You should see it too.  Show your parents. This video has been seen on the web thousands of times. It's by Karl Fisch, a school technology coordinator outside of Denver, Colorado. (Karl hooked us up with the 1001 Tales Denver ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/20/did-you-know/ Check out these amazing "blog blings" here.  Lessons to add all sorts of stylish stuff to your blog. http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/19/how-to-give-originality-and-style-to-your-blog/ Malthus didn't see this one coming.  Funny how even starvation and food shortage seems mild compared to this stuff--which is happening right now, and growing in speed. It's how the Industrial Revolution is still effecting us, 200 years later. This is your future (and our present).  Every time you consume energy, paper, ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/07/update-200-years-later-the-industrial-revolution-today/ Make sure you follow these rules--penalties if you don't! (Thanks to Patterson's Class Blog for publishing these.) First, some important rules about blogging. 1. Please, no last names, school names or addresses. 2. Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information on there that ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/22/some-rules-about-blogging-for-this-class/ ...that we started blogging--about time. And time-travel. Which is what, through the magic of words on paper, history is: time-travel. I know: bo-ring. Nothing can be more dull than history. Who wants to waste their time on a mountain with a view of everything that happened in ... http://history9.learnerblogs.org/2006/11/21/its-about-time/