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Fostering Higher Level Thinking in History Through Web 2.0

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History Interests
European, Australian, World History, Historiography, monastic history
Web 2.0 Interests
wikis, blogs, evernote !!!, youtube, twitter, diigo, anything collaborative
About Me:
I teach IB and IGCSE history @ Yokohama International School in Japan. I am interested in:
Booderee night riding, liberation theology, a good chain line, Rohloffs, track bikes, singlespeeds, proud owner of a 1978 Peugeot 504 GL, historiography, monasteries, French Rugby, West Indies Cricket, the European Peleton, Booderee National Park and Jervis Bay, bloodhounds, NCAA Football, Northern Ohio High School football, volleyball coaching, frisbee, 1961-1966 Ford F-100 pick-up trucks (I've owned two in my past... hope to own another before I die...), Christopher Walken films, Nitto products, International Thomas Merton Society, Hasselblad 500 CM cameras, 6x6 format, Japanese gardening and carpentry tools
Website:
http://www.mrfaught.org

Some Web 2.0 activities I'm doing

A Master Card Parody about International Relations posted on YouTube:

An Evernote Project about different perspectives of the Cuban Revolution:
http://preview.evernote.com/pub/nowra1/cuba08 An Evernote record of my classroom activities and posters generated this year:
http://preview.evernote.com/pub/nowra1/classroom2008

Teaching Arsenal: a website I maintain that gives me teaching ideas to improve critical thinking skills for students:
http://www.mrfaught.org/arsenal.html

History ICT: the thought processes of an IB/IGCSE history teacher...:
http://www.mrfaught.org/historyict.html

Laurent's Voicethread about Superpower Relations during the Cold War

Paragraphs of Disappointment Saarland

Abyssinia Crisis Sound Mix

Example of web-based homework for 9th grade

Grade 10 Depression Era Paragraphs of Devastation

A nice wiki of resources from teachers who attended the IB L2/3 History workshop in Shanghai in 3/08

Cuban Missile Crisis Takes Grade 9


Stalin chalk drawing activity on evernote

Collectivization Takes

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my one to one plea

Some axiomatic statements about what my learning environment would be like if my IB students all had laptops (any platform):



* nearly all if not every handout would be in pdf format, thus saving paper I'm nearly there already with www.mrfaught.org
* the door would open to many collaborative projects within a prescribed IB unit. here is a great example of this
* Web 2.0 would be the ocean in which we would swim
* Google Docs would allow cross platform, real time collaboration... forget microso… Continue

Posted on June 4, 2008 at 3:28pm —

dean faught

Major Switchover

Decided to abandon web.mac.com and go with Adam Clark's suggested provider ipowerweb... a great change!! i have my own domain name and loads of space (1.5 tb). At first, i wanted to try wordpress, but have decided to manage my site in html like normal. i prefer the micromanagement approach. everything has gone smoothly and i have had to call customer service for ipowerweb twice and each time was quick and successful. I am very happy with this switch and it sets me up well for next year. new site… Continue

Posted on May 30, 2008 at 12:21pm —

dean faught

Apple ed conference in Shinagawa... underwhelming.

attended the international schools summit hosted by apple yesterday afternoon. I know this is dissing a sacred cow... but i was underwhelmed...
the presentations weren't really very good (Patrick Newell's presentation was the best of a marginal class), and, it seemed like a big marketing session for apple machines and applications... with little of use i could take away. Apple better get in gear with web 2.0... or they'll be left behind. That all being said, it was nice food. and, i'll sell my f… Continue

Posted on May 18, 2008 at 8:55am —

dean faught

exams over...! on to a new syllabus.

papers 1,2 and 3 are finished for the students, my colleague and I are happy with the questions. the students told us that they had a good selection to write on. the new syllabus changes take effect starting next year and will examine in 2010. one more year of Stalin as the prescribed topic and then on to the Interwar years. Thinking of starting a ning for each class next year... we'll see. another busy weekend to begin to wrap things up and focus on next year.

Posted on May 9, 2008 at 1:34pm —

dean faught

another IB revision session coming up...

paper three revision tonite with the HL... many topics on the chopping block. Hitler, Russian Revolution, Mussolini, League of Nations, Post Stalin USSR, Interwar. 30 question... they pick three to write about.

Posted on May 6, 2008 at 3:30pm —

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