Sponsor |  Vortexfugue | Aug 31, 2007 12:14pm | | Just a place to chat about history or whatever else. |
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Sponsor | | fgviva | Aug 31, 2007 12:21pm | hi VF, i am frank.......i like history, but not drudgery of pulling it from books......more into the produced type shown on TV [and i love it]
history can be fun an interesting if presented in the right way
i like the "this day in history" and everyone can add their likes
the history "eddities" is great.......develops interest
hope the thread comes up with some good ideas for presenting "history as fun" |
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Sponsor | | iamdone | Aug 31, 2007 12:27pm | | i'm seriously not a history buff... barely qualified to even post here. i only started liking history after i got out of school... so i'll mostly be playing catch up here and researching! ;) |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Aug 31, 2007 12:34pm | I studied history at school until I was 18, and was lucky to have teachers who didn't make it a dry dusty subject.
I agree there are a lot of interesting resources out there - the BBC does history well (both radio and TV), so their website is always worth a look.
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Sponsor | | fgviva | Aug 31, 2007 12:38pm | high school history, was the pits.......college opened my eyes......
history= the pits
history = great things of interest
all depends on where my mind is lurking and how it is stimulated lol |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | Aug 31, 2007 12:47pm | fgviva, I am curious about what made your high school history the pits. I might end up teaching it and the work I have done with teaching makes me very curious about what works and what does not.
When I was working with kids learning English -- mostly from Japan or Korea -- about what subjects they liked in school history was often the least favorite and occasionally their favorite, but only rarely were they neutral about it. |
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Sponsor | | fgviva | Aug 31, 2007 12:50pm | dates....learning and memorizing dates.....f++k dates
the dates replaced the content.....more importance placed on dates the on content,,,,,,,,gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Aug 31, 2007 12:52pm | | I couldn't stand my HS history teachers, they presented everything so dryly without any real reasons behind historical events, and never any real depth, and they were always the same old few dozen rehashed events. It was only when I was on my own and started reading lots of history that I became fascinated with it. Certainly teachers should be able to present history in an interesting way. |
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Sponsor | | datura | Aug 31, 2007 12:54pm | | same here...the teachers had no passion for the topic and it showed..it seemed like they had memorized the data the same way and were disgusted by it.. |
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