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The Hits-That gives me an idea.

Eric Schulz

I really enjoy seeing with resources teachers were using in this email I receive from OER-Teachers voted. Here’s what topped the charts.  It got me thinking.  Which new resource did you try this year that is a keeper?  What is a resource you have bumped or replaced and why?  Which article packs the most punch?  I am not sure I have answers to all of these but this was the second year I did the Crusades video and it really fits well with my standard.  However, I still show the Khan Academy video which has none of the visual pizzazz but the content related to impacts is spot on.  

So what are your biggest hits?  

  • I have used the Histeros Cave activity for a few years.  I had a new idea for the 2nd semester to spice it up a bit.  My school is connected to the local college and our leadership is always pushing for us to invite the professors to speak.  I have had visitors in for the typical the "tell us about your profession" type lessons before.  I was thinking this year that I would invite all of the disciplines I could entice to visit my room on the same day.  Instead of having the visitors talk to my students about their professions, I would have them work with students and explain how their discipline (anthro, sociology, historian, etc) would view the artifacts from the cave and then have the students share the information.  

  • I used the Assembly Line Simulation for the second time this year and really enjoyed it. If I could come up with one really hands-on lesson for every unit of my 1200 class, I think it would be better for morale all around.

    In terms of materials, I'd like to use some of the deep dives with more consistency. For example, the series that Trevor Getz made in Ghana. It's so tempting to allow students to pick their topic with some of the broader trends and I feel like my activities end up mile-wide-inch-deep. 

  • in reply to Will Nash

      I totally agree!  There are so many awesome activities, and just picking and choosing some to do is just scratching the surface for my students.  I wish I could just teach this curriculum full-time.

  • in reply to Jim Jaeger

    Last year I taught with as many OER materials as I could. Of course it was before the remake of the courses into more streamlined lesson plans. I'm hoping to try again in the coming year.