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Truly free and non-commercial, the collections M. Sheehan lists include the Federal Registry (FREE, and non-commercial) with animations, primary docs, maps, etc.; Graphic Organizers from Vermilion Parish; The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, with primary sources and online exhibits to explore History; Chonicling America from the Library of Congress, which contains a database of newspapers from 100 years ago. These sites would be great for authentic materials and content-based tasks for teens/adults.

"Draftback is a good web tool that allows you to playback the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. You will be able to watch your edits roll out in a video player as if you are watching a movie. We have tried this extension a couple of times and it worked perfectly well. As a teacher, you can use Draftback to track students revision history to identify how much work and time they have put into their writing. You will also be able to see whether doc is their own writing or they have been copying and pasting stuff from the Internet."

"Create free timelines. Follow interesting stories, get updates and notifications with "Today in history". myHistro is an interactive diary and a story-flow generator for bloggers." This seems an addition to ways to use timelines/mind-mappers/blogs that would be worth exploring.

Review of Digital Dante Website. "Great works continue to draw new specialists into the field and serve to bring the history of a language, its people, and their culture to life. Literary works serve as examples of the power and beauty of language at its best. Helping to make such texts more accessible to learners, the Web can make use of hypertext and multimedia to provide context that is so often lacking for those without the general background knowledge that a good reader is assumed to possess. "

A 360 degree interactive view of the Parenton. Also available on iPad. Have kids explore and react, relate to history lessons.

Colonial Williamsburg has a multimedia online presence that is highly motivating for content-based learning in history.

This pdf file contains an instructional guide to the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Good ideas for civics/history lessons with vocabulary-building suggestions.

This blog entry has everything you ever wanted to know about storytelling: excellent resources and tools are listed, and it would take days and days to explore everything. Nice to have a whole semester's course in one place. The focus is on history as a subject, but the ideas and concepts could apply to any content-based work.

This site has some amazing links for all the content areas: sciences, lanugage arts (lit trips), maths, and social studies, including U.S. History Tours, using Google Maps and Google Earth. For multiple grades.

"A superb history tool which combines timelines, maps, text and media, such as videos and audio. A great way to add depth to the story of past events."

Powerful content sites from such providers as Annenberg and NAACP. Thanks to Michael Sheehan.

Great links for using Google Earth for science classes, as well as for English/Language Arts (see "Lit Trips"), math, culture and history, etc. Pre-made lessons. Also links to "How to create Placemarks and Tours," "To Geography and Beyond," etc.

Create a map with your students names, or they can log in themselves to add notes. Choose world, US, countries, or flags. Good short writing practice, and/or to introduce themselves, especially for an onine class. Print, embed, change colors, etc. Or use the maps for geography or history in a content-lesson.

Over 200 videos on U.S. and World History. Might be useful for more advanced students.

Many good lesson ideas/tips from students and teachers who use tech in their classrooms. Here the focus is on social studies and history.

Using tools that are appropriate for the task is one theme of this blog post, but it is also a good explanation of SAMR and how to "walk up" to teaching beyond repetition and substitution. Uses an American history lesson as an example

This world map shows locations with interactivities and webcams. A great collection of links for teaching geography, history, and social studies.

R. Byrne gives us some good tools to use in class with ideas for use with students. The cultural studies uses are unlimited, but also history and politics play a role. Visualize data sets, build a tour or gallery of images, etc.

R. Byrne's article on using MapFAST, a Google Maps app: find books about nearby places. A great way to get students interested in local -- or distant -- history and geography.

Once again, you can play Oregon Trail -- this time online. Great for American Civ and history, project- and content-based. Middle school.