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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Holly Hoskins

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Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Great article about the future of education in the eyes of George Lucas. (Thanks for sharing Phil)
Holly Hoskins

Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    great look at old newspapers
Holly Hoskins

Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Create Fake Facebook Profiles for Historica... - 1 views

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    Here are some alternatives to fakewall that gave us some problems this year.
Holly Hoskins

kmlfactbook.org - 2 views

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    You can select data sets and this program creates a map on google earth. Could be used for economics, social studies, etc.
Holly Hoskins

TeachPaperless: Open, Collaborative Test - 4 views

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    Different way to assess student understanding of some key historical events.
Holly Hoskins

R.I.P.: Lectures, Notes, and Tests (Scrapping the Old Ways) | Britannica Blog - 1 views

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    Good article about tech enriched student empowered classes with quite a bit of detail on how to organize it.
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YouTube - Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks - 0 views

shared by Holly Hoskins on 23 Mar 11 - Cached
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    Tedtalk showing Gapminder. Really cool.
Holly Hoskins

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org - 0 views

shared by Holly Hoskins on 23 Mar 11 - Cached
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    Cool site for showing trends and statistics. It goes with the TEDtalk that I will share right after.
Holly Hoskins

Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    A cool interactive timeline of the uprisings
Holly Hoskins

Wolfram Demonstrations Project - 2 views

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    There are some good macro and microeconomics and social science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free. Great population simulations.
Holly Hoskins

Zotero | Home - 1 views

shared by Holly Hoskins on 20 Jan 11 - Cached
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    This is a tool that I am learning for possible research papers etc. Jill recommends it for high school students.
Holly Hoskins

LESSON PLANS - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    New York Times lesson plans. Some of them look pretty good.
Holly Hoskins

Geocube - The world of Geography at your fingertips - 1 views

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    This might be useful, not just for geography. You have to spin the cube to get to different topics.
Holly Hoskins

IfItWereMyHome.com - 1 views

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    I thought this was kind of cool.
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