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Entries Tagged as 'BookTV'

Book TV: Travels of a T-Shirt, and National Book Festival

September 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments

The one pre-recorded program that I’m planning to record for use in teaching is The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli, scheduled for 5:00am Monday morning

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Tags: BookTV · Social Studies · blog

Antietam

September 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

 re-airing On Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 am
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=463
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note: if you would like to know about rebroadcasts in future weekends, use the RSS feed.  See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/03/booktv-notification/
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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy of attention.
However, I did get part of it b/c the first [...]

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Tags: BookTV · Social Studies · blog

Lynne Cheney vs. Howard Zinn; and an invitation to participate in an online history project

September 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Please join in developing a collaborative wiki alphabet book of Great American Accomplishments. Please add your own entries, or add to the entries that are already here! Click here for the Index page. Why would I (or anybody) do this? Here’s an explanation of where the idea for this wiki comes from:
During an interview that was [...]

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Tags: BookTV · Social Studies

dilemma: hi-stakes history test ?

September 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I disagree with the notion that history can or will really be taught if we have high-stakes testing for history.

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Tags: BookTV · Social Studies · Standards & Testing · blog

Book-TV notification

September 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Now you can use this blog to get notification of when BookTV programs I have recommended to my colleagues are being re-aired.

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Tags: BookTV · blog

“Traipsing” authors on BookTV Aug 26-27

August 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Two of the authors of Traipsing into Evolution, will be on CSpan-2’s BookTV this weekend in a 90-minute program airing 3 times: first at 7pm EDT Saturday, with final showing midnight Sunday night.

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Tags: BookTV · Evolution · Law & Policy · blog