History Teachers on Youtube

Check out this amazing Youtube channel for funny and educational videos that you can use in your classroom. Thanks to Kristi (http://krherbert.edublogs.org/) for sharing this with me!

The Heart of a Teacher

We Teach Who We Are

I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy. When my students and I discover uncharted territory to explore, when the pathway out of a thicket opens up before us, when our experience is illumined by the lightning-life of the mind—then teaching is the finest work I know.

But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do anything about it that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham. Then the enemy is everywhere: in those students from some alien planet, in that subject I thought I knew, and in the personal pathology that keeps me earning my living this way. What a fool I was to imagine that I had mastered this occult art—harder to divine than tea leaves and impossible for mortals to do even passably well!

**Read the rest at:

http://www.couragerenewal.org/parker/writings/heart-of-a-teacher

Canadian Social Studies Super Site!

www.ualberta.ca/~jkirman/

Follow the above link to an amazing resource for Canadian social studies teachers. You are welcome!

My Video Project

Video Review

EDCI 336 Melissa Lackey.egg on Aviary.

Here is my Podcast review of Andrew and Brandon's video found below:

Bringing Your Classroom Outside!

This website leaves Victoria area teachers with no excuses. Bring your students outside!

http://www.victoria.amongnature.net/search/