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As a masters student in the School of Education at NC State there are many classes that we are required to take. A lot of them are repetitive and instructional. However, I have learned more practical knowledge in ECI 525 than I have in any of my other classes. I have already used a variety of the techniques we learned this semester in projects and lessons plans. Not only was I uncomfortable with technology when I began this course, I had not really planned on using much of it in my classroom. I… Continue

I recently lost my grandpa but before he passed away my grandma asked me to find his father, my great-grandfather, on Ancestry.com. There is an option to build a family tree. You add in a name, a birth date, place of birth, etc., any information you have about the person you are looking for. After you enter this information a leaf will show up next to the name. When you click on the leaf a list will show up with information that is in the Ancestry.com database. From there it is really easy to br… Continue

I have to admit that schools have a habit of glorifying parts of history. The review focuses on the Pilgrims and the traditions that stem from the Thanksgiving story. I really like Tony Horowitz writing style. He is telling the story of the myths and the people that created them. It is important to remember that even if we take out these stories from the history books they are engrained in society. Pilgrims and Indians are depicted in plays, movies and tv specials. I think it is not our job to i… Continue

I have to admit that schools have a habit of glorifying parts of history. The review focuses on the Pilgrims and the traditions that stem from the Thanksgiving story. I really like Tony Horowitz writing style. He is telling the story of the myths and the people that created them. It is important to remember that even if we take out these stories from the history books they are engrained in society. Pilgrims and Indians are depicted in plays, movies and tv specials. I think it is not our job to i… Continue

I want to teach social studies and history because I am fascinated by the past. I enjoyed history in middle and high school but in college I was exposed to a type of instruction I had not had much experience with. My first US history professor in college colored his lectures with real stories. He introduced us to the actual people we were studying. We went to the Southern Historical Collection, which was housed on campus, we were able to read letters, decipher ledgers, examine hand drawn maps fr… Continue