"A Review of the History Tech Blog by Glenn Wiebe"
Glenn Wiebe's page is a very informative page that has a lot of information on it without very many visuals such as pictures or videos on the initial page. There are other links on the page that Mr. Wiebe has set up that will take you more resources that have videos and pictures. I think that this makes it very clear and easy to navigate to the exact type of resource you are looking for. The links on the blog are for Social Studies Central, Work with Me, Products, Presentations / Resources, and Podcasts. Having so many resources in one spot really creates an easy environment to pull from.
There is one portion of this blog page that I found to be particularly interesting and eye opening. Mr. Wiebe makes the connection between the idea of return on investment (ROI) to teaching students. He writes "back in the day, ROI would not have been something that educators would have worried about. The business model of school was different. Kids showed up. Kids sat in rows. Teacher talked. Kids copied down what the teacher said. Kids memorized what they wrote down. On Friday, teacher asked students to write down what they memorized. Teacher assigned a grade. Repeat." This is interesting to think about now because teaching has changed so much over the last thirty years and it will only continue to change. He goes on to write about how different the world is now and we as educators need to get out of that mindset of how instruction used to be so that we can strive for better instruction that is of high quality. This blog also goes over how technology is impacting how instruction is delivered.
Mr. Wiebe has some really great ideas and thoughts that he is sharing on his blog site and I would highly recommend that anyone who is interested in education, history, or even technology stop by and visit his site. I am sure this will be one that I use quite often.