Social Studies Instruction in a Digital World

Cal State Channel Islands
October 20, 2001

Mr. Richard Geib, Foothill Technology High School

(NOTE: This can be found online at http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/csuci-presentation.htm)

AGENDA:

1.  Media Creator

• The past, textbooks, and the present.
• New resources

2.  Class webpage

• Basic class information, etc

3.  Current Events

• Main page and PPT introductory lecture

4.  Primary Sources

• Main page
• Access to online resources

5.  Multimedia Presentations and Lectures

6.  Examples of Student Work:

        Poetry Unit:

• Special Moment
• Special Person
• Theme for English 9

7.  Online Rubrics

• Resume Project
• Writing Rubric General; "Brave New World" example
• 9th grade class project multimedia presentation rubric
• Visual Communication image rubric

8.  Inspiration and Concept Mapping

• Inspiration Page
• Scope and Sequence English 9
• Causes of the Civil War
• Fundamentalism vs. Nationalism in the Arab World
• Renaissance vs. Medieval Worldview
• "Brave New World" Control Pattern
• "1984" Control Pattern

9.  Webquest/online

• Webquest Page by Prof. Bernie Dodge
• Project based; deeper learning.
• Task and essential questions.
• My First Car; Personal Budget
• Growing Up in the Hungry '30s
• Islam: The Divided Realm at the End of the 20th Century
• Brave New World?  Or Slouching Towards Gomorrah?

10.  Video, the future

• Mustapha Mond's Department of Propaganda
• American Experience

11.  Questions and Answers!