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Maggie Verster

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell - 26 views

sixrevisions.com/...-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell

internet history school2.0

shared by Maggie Verster on 26 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Maggie Verster
    Maggie Verster on 26 Nov 09
     
    "Here's a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from"
Louise Robinson-Lay

History of literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...History_of_literature

literature history

shared by Louise Robinson-Lay on 25 Nov 09 - Snapshot
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    Louise Robinson-Lay on 25 Nov 09
     
    background history of world literature
David Hilton

Group History Teachers's best content - 20 views

groups.diigo.com/...history-teachers

history all_teachers technology professionaldevelopment web2 sources community teachers groups

shared by David Hilton on 11 Oct 09 - No snapshot
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  • David Hilton
    David Hilton on 11 Oct 09
     
    If you're a history teacher come and share sources and ideas with other history educators.
Michelle DeSilva

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour - 19 views

www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas

smithsonian museum virtual history museums education edu_tech web2.0 virtual field trips

shared by Michelle DeSilva on 29 Sep 09 - Snapshot
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    Michelle DeSilva on 29 Sep 09
     
    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
  • Michelle DeSilva
    Michelle DeSilva on 29 Sep 09
     
    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
Frances DiDavide

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 0 views

www.mapsofwar.com

history maps war geography socialstudies

shared by Frances DiDavide on 18 Jan 09 - Snapshot
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    Michelle DeSilva on 10 Jul 09
     
    I hope this site helps you place today's current events into a greater historical context. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war.

    Maps-of-War is created by a Flash-Designer hobbyist and professional history- buff. Enjoy your visit and feel free to save or share our work for your own use!
Kathleen N

Tweets from the beyond: John Quincy Adams Twittering - 0 views

www.computerworld.com/...d_John_Quincy_Adams_Twittering

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shared by Kathleen N on 08 Aug 09 - No snapshot
  • Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts
    from John Quincy Adams' line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track
    Adams' voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years
    after Adams' journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the
    first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on
    Twitter    .
  • Kathleen N
    Kathleen N on 08 Aug 09
     
    Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts from John Quincy Adams' line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track Adams' voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years after Adams' journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on Twitter.
Dennis OConnor

John Quincy Adams, Twitterer? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...06adams.html

twitter history

shared by Dennis OConnor on 06 Aug 09 - Snapshot
  • They may be two centuries old, but, written with staccato-like brevity, entries from one of Adams’s diaries resemble tweets sufficiently that they began appearing Wednesday on Twitter.
  • The diary, which Adams maintained until April 1836, is a rarity among the many he kept, in that the description for each day is no more than one line long. Historians believe he used the descriptions as references to longer entries in other journals.
  • Word spread, and the society decided to tweet the entries. They average 110 to 120 characters, below the 140-character limit imposed by Twitter, and there is nary an LOL or BFF among them.
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  • The posts will link to maps that, using the latitude and longitude coordinates from his entries, pinpoint his progress across the ocean. There will also be links to the longer entries of other Adams diaries, which can be found on the society’s Web site, http://www.masshist.org/jqadiaries/.
  • The idea appears to be working. As of Wednesday evening, only nine hours after the first entry was Twittered, the post had more than 4,800 followers, and Mr. Dibbell said the number was climbing.
  • Dennis OConnor
    Dennis OConnor on 06 Aug 09
     
    Clever use of social networking tech. The initial take on twitter was that it just broadcast mindless sort personal observations. This use turns that idea around. Interesting way to teach a bit of history. What if we started tweeting Basho & Issa, the great Japanese haiku poets? Hmmm sounds like a fun lit project doesn't it?
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