Welcome Bishop State faculty! This is your custom American History website. This website will give you an introduction to the materials we offer with the Tindall and Shi text as well as show you how to go about accessing and ordering those materials.

Contact your rep John Hobson with any questions about ordering or concerns regarding ancillary materials for your American History course. He can be reached at 504.729.0560 or via email

The Social Science webpage which includes the faculty, class schedule, and contact information for the History department can be found here. The real time class schedule for Bishop State along with the current Booklook Schedule can be found here.

 

Students | Faculty | Packages and Readers | Norton Video Offer | Tutorials

Students

Student resources can be found on our Studyspace website and include some very useful tools including chapter outlines, chapter quizzes, interactive maps, flashcards, audio, and video.

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Faculty

 

Faculty resources can be found on the Norton Resource Library website and inculde tools such as a coursepack, an Instructor's Manual and a Testbank (both in PDF), Lecture Powerpoints, Art from the book for use in your own Powerpoints, and a test generator called Examview. Instructions for accessing and downloading or ordering Instructor materials can be found in the Professor Toolkit.

Packages and Readers

There are lots of options for packaging your Tindall and Shi text with one or more of Norton's other great case books (like The Age of Jim Crow), For the Record (A reader by David Shi), or one of the many great History monographs in Norton's catalogue.

For the Record Includes a rich collection of 225 primary sources, both textual and visual, with just the right amount of pedagogy for introductory students. The fourth edition includes a number of documents designed to highlight the new theme of religion in Tindall and Shi’s America. For the Record can be packaged with any Norton history text for an additional $10 net.

  

Norton Video Offer
Create your own video list! For orders of 100 new books or more, you are eligible for a free subscription to Netflix for one semester (4 months). During the term of your subscription, you may rent up to three DVDs at a time from Netflix’s library of over 50,000 titles. The Netflix catalog includes many feature films dealing with topics taught in the American history survey course, as well as a broad array of historical documentaries, History Channel/ PBS productions.
  

Tutorials (Powerpoint, YouTube, etc)

Blackboard
Blackboard QuickTutorials Library
Blackboard Support Videos
Blackboard Tutorial (for student orientation)
Upload Video into Blackboard
Add a podcast to Blackboard
Blackboard Gradebook/Overview
Add Assignments to Gradebook
Blackboard Gradebook/Managing Assessments
Blackboard Gradebook/Entering Grades
How to Create a Post in Blackboard's Blog Tool
How to Copy and/or Move Content in Blackboard

Powerpoint
Become a PowerPoint Power User
How to (do pretty much anything) in PowerPoint
Embed YouTube Videos in Powerpoint
Embed YouTube Videos (Offline)
How NOT to Use PowerPoint


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