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This site is design to help Prac students stay in touch with one another. Share **ideas**, **resources** and **strategies**, especiallyfor those of you who are only minors and will not be with us in TEP 428 next semester.
 * __Welcome to Macquarie University Student Run History Teachers__** **__Web Page__**


 * The page works pretty simply if you'd like to post something or change the page simply click **edit** and then go crazy (it does take a few times to get use to using). Once you've finished hit save and then you've successfully contributed to the biggest resource in human history (feel proud being part of that process and **embrace** the **nerd within you**)


 * Feel free to change anything (this has only been my somewhat vain attempt to make the page presentable).
 * Through the web page you can post **pics**, **vids**, **sounds,** anything you'd like.
 * Post **assessment tasks** if you're looking for **feedback** (or wish to gloat about your truely awesome mark) or want to show other people what assignments from different mark bands look like.


 * The discussion link works pretty much the same as the discussion link on blackboard, so feel free to post any **experiences** or **opinions**. Remember the more **controversial** the more **entertaining!!!!**
 * These wikispaces pages are an incredible teaching resource I have been doing one with my year 9s and they absolutely love it. So think of this as a chance to practice using one of these pages for your students
 * It's just about sharing ideas and using each other, prac is hard enough let alone if your out there on your own.

//Ben//


 * __Teaching With Popular Culture__ **

For me **Popular culture** is the best way to teach history and I have found it very successful. Students are just going to work better if they **connect** what they do in class to what they **see** around the world.

The first video is from an American School that is giving kids **extra marks in history** for finding references to what they are studying in **popular culture**. I think this is an awesome idea (and the video contains many references to the Simpsons, the greatest product of human existance).

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The next clip is a music video that would be useful for teaching Vietnam. A lot of us would know the Redgum song //I Was Only 19.// The song tells the story of young man's experiences in Vietnam and his struggle to adjust to life at home after the war. This film clip which was only recently put together captures a lot of the social feeling around Australian society during Vietnam and sets against this iconic anti-war song. media type="youtube" key="1gmgwx77osw" height="344" width="425" One more quick one comes from the glorious popular culture genre, Video games. Lots of people talk about using games like ages of empires to help reinforce learning, it would also work really well as a kind of reward lesson. Here's some video of what the game looks like for those who don't know. Think about how this game could be used to teach medieval Europe.

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//Ben//

Ben,

This is such a useful teaching tool thank you so much. I just thought that I would let everyone know about the Pompeii exhibition Louise was speaking about. I have had a look at the site and some of the resources are still under maintenance. But it has some really useful teaching tools especially the artefact analysis recorder. Visit the Melbourne museum website http://museumvictoria.com.au/pompeii and click on the education resources link, then education kits. The exhibit is open till October so you have some time just be wary though, when a exhibition moves on often websites are taken down too so get the info asap.



Shara

I've made a page so everyone can post links. Click on "Useful links" from the top right navigation sidebar. -Paul