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David Letterman – Top Ten Reasons I’ve Decided to Become a Teacher 24 Jul 2013 | 09:18 pm
I’m knee deep in LearnZillion work as I came back from my long break. The Gilder Lehrman conference at USC was great–wonderful professors, cool colleagues, and a special shout out to the folks at Tik...
Mr. D will be at USC until the 13th and in Colorado until the 18th 8 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
English: University of Southern California campus building in 2007. Photo taken by Padsquad. Please observe license and properly cite in use outside Wikipedia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Lots happenin...
Video for the Classroom: A Tour through Ancient Rome, courtesy of Khan Academy and Rome Reborn 2 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
This is the type of history video Khan Academy needs! A Tour Through Ancient Rome is a collaboration between Khan and the Rome Reborn project, an initiative to create digital models of Rome from its ...
Can We Keep it This Simple?: A Response to Amy Weisberg’s Huffington Post Article on Education 1 Jul 2013 | 10:32 pm
The simplest solution may be the best…unless it really isn’t that simple at all. Recently, a 32-year veteran teacher, Amy Weisberg, wrote an article for the Huffington Post outlining five necessary s...
Cool Link for the Classroom: The Periodic Table of the Presidents 28 Jun 2013 | 07:59 pm
Periodic Table of the Presidents, courtesy of Periodicpresidents.com A huge thanks to P.J. Creek for sharing his amazing work here at the Neighborhood. P.J. is an eighth grade social studies teacher...
School’s Out by Alice Cooper – Welcome to Summer Vacation 26 Jun 2013 | 05:29 am
School officially lets out for me tomorrow, and it couldn’t come fast enough. Here’s a great classic from Alice Cooper, as performed in 1972 for the BBC’s Top of the Pops program. If you’re a teache...
This Day in History 6/20: Kazimierz Piechowski escapes Auschwitz through the front door 20 Jun 2013 | 07:30 am
On June 20, 1942, a Steyr 220 sedan rolled out of the gates of Auschwitz, the notorious extermination camp in Poland. In the sedan were four men, apparently members of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, or “De...
Review of Khan Academy’s “American History Overview Part 1: Jamestown to Civil War” 19 Jun 2013 | 04:33 am
I had not been a huge fan of Khan Academy. Even before I started working with one of its competitors, I generally took a dim view of anyone that though they could do better than a teacher with just a ...
New Posts Coming – End of Year Madness 12 Jun 2013 | 06:36 am
Hey guys, sorry I haven’t been as productive as before. The usual end-of-year wrap ups and such are keeping me extremely busy. It also doesn’t help that I’m creating video lessons again for LearnZil...
This Day in History 5/30 – The 1806 Duel between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickenson 30 May 2013 | 11:09 pm
Some epithets seem custom-made for their people they describe. Father of his country, Great emancipator, Great Soul…hell, any permutation of “the Great”, or “the Terrible”, or “The Magnificent” and so...
