ABC Humanities

"Welcome to Welker's Wikinomics PageThis is a featured page" This is an IB Economics teacher's wiki which he uses to teach the course and seems to be very full of good resources for teaching and learning.

"Enjoy these stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them."

Free access to many of the primary resources, however site membership to have access to everything on the site is paid.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

"Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view" 31 March 2011 Last updated at 15:27 GMT

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

"A brief history of time zones "

" EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History. Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads. "

"History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents"

"Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others."

"STOP DISASTERS! A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR"

"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. "

Ways in which to use Google maps...I didn't know you can text them for directions: If you can still eke out an SMS message, you can text GOOGLE with a message formatted as "Directions A to B," substituting a town, ZIP code, or street address for A and B.

virtual history and tours from Discovery Channel

"The Birth of an American Empire (4 Lessons)"

U.S. National Archives Wiki for Researchers) Historical documents

Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of world events. 5000 years of History in 90 seconds

"Create timelines, share them on the web."

Humanities lessons and student work. Some great resources here for investigation and examples of web 2.0 work that students have done.