Archive for history
Highlights from the 2013 Trappers Rendezvous Campout
21st Jan 13. Comments Off
This past weekend was the 36th annual “Trappers Rendezvous” campout near Hutchinson, Kansas, and over six thousand Boy Scouts and parents descended on the area to enjoy the great weather and a swap meet like no other. This was my third year to attend the Trappers Rendezvous with my son, and in this post I’ll [Continue Reading...]
Common Core Writing Lesson With AudioBoo: 9/11 Narrated Art
26th Sep 12. 3 Comments
(Cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase website) Kayleen Browning teaches 6th grade Social Studies at Yukon Middle School. This year, she asked her students to identify a word which summarized things they had studied and learned about the 9/11 attacks in 2001 by al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mrs. [Continue Reading...]
Playing With Media and the Story of the American West
15th Jun 12. Comments Off
Perhaps because I grew up in New England (and still live here) or perhaps because I watched too many episodes of Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid, I have always been fascinated with the American West. And because of that fascination, the story of the westward expansion of the United States [Continue Reading...]
Digitizing Vintage Photographic Negatives and Prints
5th Jun 12. Comments Off
These are my notes from Tom Rieger‘s presentation, “Digitizing Vintage Photographic Negatives and Prints” at the 2012 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tom is the Director of Imaging Services for the Northeast Document Conservation Center. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. From the NEDCC website: NEDCC’s mission [Continue Reading...]
Additional Books to Read on the POW/MIA Situation in Southeast Asia
27th Apr 12. 5 Comments
The connections made possible via Internet-based publishing and communication can be both enlightening and challenging. When I was a cadet at the US Air Force Academy in the late 1980s / early 1990s, I wrote a paper about U.S. Prisoners of War (POWs) who were left behind in Southeast Asia following the formal end of [Continue Reading...]
7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Bushwhackers, and Jayhawkers (Kansas in 1861 – 1865)
15th Jan 12. Comments Off
This is a 10 minute video interview recorded on January 14, 2012, at the Trapper’s Rendezvous campout west of Newton, Kansas. This historian shares some history about Kansas in the U.S. Civil War. He provided background about the 7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, the Bushwhackers, Jayhawkers, Quantrill’s Raiders and the scorched earth tactics which eventually [Continue Reading...]
Creating Oral History Interview Videos on an iPod Touch
13th Nov 11. 2 Comments
I’m working with an Oklahoma teacher who helped her students conduct multiple interviews last week and this weekend with U.S. military veterans for Veteran’s Day. She is exploring several project ideas for students using these recorded interviews, and I’m brainstorming with her to figure out how students could create oral history interview videos (like those [Continue Reading...]
Why Veteran’s Day is November 11th
11th Nov 11. Comments Off
Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States. To all our veterans, active duty members of the military, and family members of veterans around the world I say THANK YOU. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your honor and integrity. Thank you for your patriotism and your sacrifices for our nation. We are [Continue Reading...]
Podcast 385: Interview with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (Glenn Stoops)
6th Nov 11. Comments Off
This podcast is an interview with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, portrayed by historical character actor Glenn Stoops. French artist Auguste Bartholdi conceived and sculpted the design for “Liberty Enlightening the World,” more commonly known today as The Statue of Liberty. It took 21 years from the initial conversation among Free Masons in Paris in 1865 about the [Continue Reading...]
Podcast 385: Interview with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (Glenn Stoop) [ 17:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadReflections on Unlimited Petroleum Wealth from the Persian Gulf
9th Oct 11. Comments Off
I recorded this video on the edge of the Persian Gulf on Saturday morning (yesterday) in Doha, Qatar. It feels quite surreal to now be back home on the other side of our planet, after just leaving the Persian Gulf about 20 hours ago. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous [Continue Reading...]
Podcast382: A Digital Witness in Tahrir Square, Egypt in January 2011
8th Oct 11. Comments Off
This podcast is an audio interview with Rawond, a student originally from Alexandria, Egypt, who was in Tahrir Square (Cairo, Egypt) for the Arab Spring uprising and revolution. In this short interview, she describes her experiences as well as her pessimism for the lack of real political change in Egypt as of today. For more information [Continue Reading...]
Podcast382: A Digital Witness in Tahrir Square, Egypt in January 2011 [ 6:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester
27th Sep 11. 1 Comment
These are my notes from Toby Lester’s presentation on the Waldseemüller map which gave America its name and his book, “The Fourth Part of the World” at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I blogged this session on a Google Chromebook. (Samsung model) Toby’s conference bio is: [Continue Reading...]
Boatlift: More Rescued by Sea after 9-11 than at Dunkirk [video]
16th Sep 11. 2 Comments
In the course of your studies or the studies of your students on World War II, is the Dunkirk evacuation part of your curriculum? That was an amazing and inspirational rescue by sea, but did you know even more people were rescued by boat from Manhattan Island in New York City after the 9-11 terrorist [Continue Reading...]
Oren Lee Peters – Stories of My Life
15th Sep 11. Comments Off
On April 16, 1921, Oren Lee Peters was born in Edmond, Oklahoma. He served as a soldier in the US Army and the Oklahoma National Guard in both World War II and Korea. After returning from World War II, he finished his senior year of high school but also served as the coach of his [Continue Reading...]
Digital Footprints After Death or Traumatic Injury
4th Sep 11. Comments Off
Adam Ostrow’s TED Talk, “After your final status update,” raises some interesting questions and possibilities regarding social media, intelligent analysis software programs, and digital footprints. In the video, Adam highlights the web services: IfIdie.net: Lets people create a video which is shown to others online after their death 1000memories: Lets people create an online photo [Continue Reading...]
Support Wings of Valor: The Jimmy Doolitte Air & Space Museum in California
9th Aug 11. Comments Off
Do you know know about the contributions of Jimmy Doolittle to the United States military during World War II? Do the names “Doolittle Raid,” “USS Hornet,” and “North American B-25 Mitchell bomber” bring stories of historical significance to your mind? If not (and especially if you’re a U.S. citizen) they should. If you’ve seen the [Continue Reading...]
Storychasing NASA History at Space Center Houston
6th Jul 11. 1 Comment
Our family had a great visit to Space Center Houston and the Johnson Space Center today. Rachel and Alexander helped me record some videos during our visit with my iPad and iRig mic, which I edited together and published as two videos. We learned a lot! Storychasing NASA History at Space Center Houston Learning About [Continue Reading...]
Voices of #iste11 – A Louis and Clark Story About Mercury & Thunderclapper Pills
28th Jun 11. Comments Off
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. In this second episode, Missouri educator Cindy [Continue Reading...]
A Live Action Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle #gct
25th Jun 11. 1 Comment
Back in April 2011, a team at Google created the first “live action Google doodle” to commemorate the birthday of Charlie Chaplain. In a post about the project and Chaplain, Google doodler Ryan Germick wrote: Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black [Continue Reading...]
Celebrating Texas Voices in White Oak – TCEA Area 7 Tech Conference #tatc11
10th Jun 11. Comments Off
Today I’m in White Oak ISD, Texas, just outside Longview sharing two presentations with educators at the TCEA Area 7 Summer Conference. My opening keynote, “Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World,” is a longer version of yesterday’s presentation in Houston and includes two additional videos. Links and my presentation slides (2.6 MB [Continue Reading...]
