Presentation: "Racism and the Undercaste" (NCSS and CASE)

This presentation was given at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference in Seattle, WA, and at the CASE (Council on American Studies Education) Conference at the Art Institute in Chicago by Thomas E. Kucharski and Spiro Bolos, both of New Trier High School.

Using US History, Michelle Alexander's recently published book, The New Jim Crow, and 20th century African-American responses to racism, we will examine strategies for our students' social/political engagement with racism.


Our slides:
 
Racism and the Undercaste from Spiro Bolos

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Our handout: 
 



Prison Industrial Complex links and video:

The Prison Industrial Complex from Spiro Bolos on Vimeo.

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Downloadable PDF of Zine illustrated and designed by Billy Dee. Music by Loscil.

Presenting Tweets in Chronological Order: A Challenge

For my visit to Smiley and West's The Poverty Tour 2.0 in Alexandria, Virginia, I wanted to document the event for my students and others by using Twitter to broadcast and archive memorable quotes from the hosts and guest speakers.

But finding a site that allowed tweets to be viewed in chronological order proved to be a major challenge until I stumbled upon this function within Storify. For now, the quotes alone will suffice, but I want to learn how to add different forms of media to enrich this "presentation". Check it out below:

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Students

Thanks to my wonderful sophomore students, I had an opportunity to present, discuss, and solicit feedback regarding my take on Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Because in the future I am only allotted 50 minutes to present and respond to questions, I've taken my students' feedback and eliminated about 1/3 of the slides. Below appears the unabridged slide deck, including the 2 videos I played when I presented. Enjoy.




District 219 Tech Conference

Thanks to all who attended my breakout sessions at the District 219 Tech Conference, which was conducted under the themes of "1:1 and Web 2.0" on April 9th, 2011 at Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois. Please feel free to contact me for further information (located in the right sidebar):

For those of you who attended my Blogging session, here is a link that features some of the best student- and teacher-related blog information I have found on the web. I tried to keep the amount of links to a minimum to encourage usage. However, if these are not enough, I have tagged over 200 web pages with the term, "blog", on this site.

The main blogs I author are also linked below:

  1. "An American Studies": co-authored with John S. O'Connor, my English teaching partner. It features links to all (40+) of our students' individual blogs.
  2. "Modern World History": a class I taught in the past which used a different blogging platform called Posthaven, somewhat similar to Tumblr. It allows you to post just about anything via email.
  3. "US History": a class I currently teach in an experimental classroom, it also uses the Posthaven platform instead of Blogger, my traditional favorite.
For those of you who attended my Copyright and Fair Use session here are some more resources:
Thanks for visiting!


Copyright and Fair Use Online Events

If you are interested in this timely topic and might not be able to attend the national (ed-tech) ISTE Conference this year, two free webinars (online conference sessions) are scheduled soon:

  1. "Copyright Clarity" on learncentral, presented by Kristin Hokanson and myself. Created by Gwyneth Jones, this is a free Elluminate web event, sponsored by Blackboard. It is intended for ISTE SIGMS members (library/media specialists), but anyone is welcome to attend. If you have a computer with a microphone, you should be able to participate on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 7:00 pm, CDT. Join us now by clicking on this link.
  2. "Copyright Clarity and Fair Use for Digital Learning", presented by Renee Hobbs, author of Copyright Clarity, Kristin Hokanson and myself. It is intended for ISTE SIGTC members (technology coordinators), but anyone is welcome to attend. Sign up here to attend online on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm CDT.


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