William C. Shannon Jr.'s Page

My name is Will Shannon and I am looking to go into the Education field as a secondary history teacher. My background for 21st century skills is I would like to think is very knowledgeable considering I was raised to prepare for the 21st century. As I went from grade school to college I have used different technologies such as power point, Google docs, excel, smart boards, and word I have used these programs since I was able to start working on a computer, which makes it easy for me to teach the… Continue

For the our PSA we made our video on H1N1 and ways to prevent it. In our video we went thorugh the different step of how to prevent it, and also what to do if you were to get sick. I think this is a very good video to make since everyday more and more people are getting H1N1. I did enjoy making this video i would like to try and use something like this in my class room and with history its more then possible.

I think Social networking is something that is very important in education and just in everyday life. I think Facebook and Myspace are probable some other best thing that have even happen to me. It allows me to talk to my family and friends from back home and nobody calls anyone on the phone anymore so it helps. It is a really good way to help with homework I mean I have been on facebook and been talking to friends about homework. I know a few teachers that have facebook that I can get on and ta… Continue

I first went to and visited http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

I’m going to have to say it is very helpful it gave me a lot of different resources I think I could use in the classroom. I mean I’m going to have a history class and there I want to find way to make it fun for my students, but at the same time I know I’m going to have to use things like powerpoint slideshow. This is a website I think I could use. I also just like the different description they give for the site.

The other… Continue