Peter Pappas's articles Teacher Life Ways Traveling Together Can Rekindle Love Problems and disagreements pop up in even the best relationships. Still, if your partner is worth holding onto, the idea is to come up with some or other solution for your rocky relationship. We’re not talking about those pathetic, needy little notes that you put in his lunchbox that say ‘ Written by Peter Pappas March 25, 2020March 28, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Workplace Asbestos Exposure Now Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke Anne-Helen Harding, Ph.D., of Britain’s Health and Safety Laboratory, headed up a study of British workers published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The study findings show that occupational exposure to asbestos may be linked to a risk of heart disease and stroke. Written by Peter Pappas March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Technology Importance of Having a Mobile-Friendly Website A mobile-friendly site is one that responds well to any size screen and doesn’t have any problems with opening up on handheld devices. Mobile-friendly websites have taken the website design industry by storm and there are very important reasons that should make you migrate to it. Although so Written by Peter Pappas February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Pre-Twitter Racist Rant Race-baiting before social media? Here’s an excerpt from “Don’t Be a Sucker” – a short film which warns of the dangers of promoting racism in America. It was produced by the United States Department of War and released in 1943 (and adapted as a slightly shorter version Written by Peter Pappas July 15, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Was the U.S. Justified in Dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan? This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nicole Matier students examine a variety of source material in preparation for a debate. Students will use these sources to construct an argument to debat Written by Peter Pappas March 7, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Wounded Knee Massacre This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nick Campagna asks student to use original source documents to explore different accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre. How do we analyze primary sources to co Written by Peter Pappas February 25, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Soldiers’ Life on the Frontlines – WWI This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Gabriel Bruneau asks student to use original source documents as prompts to reflect on soldiers’ experience in WWII. How should our society view military Written by Peter Pappas February 14, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Equality on the Front, but What Waits at Home? This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Jana Peters asks student to put themselves in the shoes of an African American soldier returning to the US from WWI. Original source documents from black soldi Written by Peter Pappas January 21, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life Westward to Equality: Frontier Life and the Suffrage Movement This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Jordan Bonnell explores the essential question: Did the Western Migration in the mid 19th century draw women to fight for equality as they obtained more responsibility? Written by Peter Pappas January 12, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life American Reactions to the Vietnam War This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nick Krautscheid explores American reactions to the Vietnam War through a variety of source material – popular music, news coverage, letters and videos. For a dire Written by Peter Pappas December 18, 2018January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life What Do You See: Visual Thinking Strategies in Action I’m pleased to be offering a pair of workshops in Eugene Ore this month on how to enhance instruction using visual thinking strategies. (hosts: Oregon Writers Project / STELLAR.) In the workshops I will guide participants through practical examples of: VTS as a model for inquiry learning Written by Peter Pappas August 6, 2018January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Teacher Life How I Turned My Class into an Edcamp Last week I ran a three-hour intro to edtech class for our incoming cadre of about 40 MAT students. In the past it been done lecture-style, but that’s not my thing. As a founding team member of #edcampPDX, I thought why not an edcamp? 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Teacher Life Ways Traveling Together Can Rekindle Love Problems and disagreements pop up in even the best relationships. Still, if your partner is worth holding onto, the idea is to come up with some or other solution for your rocky relationship. We’re not talking about those pathetic, needy little notes that you put in his lunchbox that say ‘ Written by Peter Pappas March 25, 2020March 28, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Workplace Asbestos Exposure Now Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke Anne-Helen Harding, Ph.D., of Britain’s Health and Safety Laboratory, headed up a study of British workers published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The study findings show that occupational exposure to asbestos may be linked to a risk of heart disease and stroke. Written by Peter Pappas March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Importance of Having a Mobile-Friendly Website A mobile-friendly site is one that responds well to any size screen and doesn’t have any problems with opening up on handheld devices. Mobile-friendly websites have taken the website design industry by storm and there are very important reasons that should make you migrate to it. Although so Written by Peter Pappas February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Pre-Twitter Racist Rant Race-baiting before social media? Here’s an excerpt from “Don’t Be a Sucker” – a short film which warns of the dangers of promoting racism in America. It was produced by the United States Department of War and released in 1943 (and adapted as a slightly shorter version Written by Peter Pappas July 15, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Was the U.S. Justified in Dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan? This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nicole Matier students examine a variety of source material in preparation for a debate. Students will use these sources to construct an argument to debat Written by Peter Pappas March 7, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Wounded Knee Massacre This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nick Campagna asks student to use original source documents to explore different accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre. How do we analyze primary sources to co Written by Peter Pappas February 25, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Soldiers’ Life on the Frontlines – WWI This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Gabriel Bruneau asks student to use original source documents as prompts to reflect on soldiers’ experience in WWII. How should our society view military Written by Peter Pappas February 14, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Equality on the Front, but What Waits at Home? This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Jana Peters asks student to put themselves in the shoes of an African American soldier returning to the US from WWI. Original source documents from black soldi Written by Peter Pappas January 21, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life Westward to Equality: Frontier Life and the Suffrage Movement This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Jordan Bonnell explores the essential question: Did the Western Migration in the mid 19th century draw women to fight for equality as they obtained more responsibility? Written by Peter Pappas January 12, 2019January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life American Reactions to the Vietnam War This semester my EdMethods students used Microsoft Sway for their final lesson design projects. This document-based lesson by Nick Krautscheid explores American reactions to the Vietnam War through a variety of source material – popular music, news coverage, letters and videos. For a dire Written by Peter Pappas December 18, 2018January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life What Do You See: Visual Thinking Strategies in Action I’m pleased to be offering a pair of workshops in Eugene Ore this month on how to enhance instruction using visual thinking strategies. (hosts: Oregon Writers Project / STELLAR.) In the workshops I will guide participants through practical examples of: VTS as a model for inquiry learning Written by Peter Pappas August 6, 2018January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Teacher Life How I Turned My Class into an Edcamp Last week I ran a three-hour intro to edtech class for our incoming cadre of about 40 MAT students. In the past it been done lecture-style, but that’s not my thing. As a founding team member of #edcampPDX, I thought why not an edcamp? We gathered in a large multi-use room and I opened with Written by Peter Pappas July 30, 2018January 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
