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Tracy Watanabe

DISTCO- Digital Storytelling Contests | Digital Storytelling Contest 2013 - 1 views

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    Digital Storytelling is great for ELA writing, speaking & listening standards, and for content areas, such as Social Studies. There are a few examples at bottom of page.
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    Digital Storytelling is great for ELA writing, speaking & listening standards, and for Social Studies. There are a few examples at bottom of page.
Tracy Watanabe

Rand McNally Education :: Play the Election - 1 views

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    Rand McNally launched a free online tool for students and teachers to learn more about the presidential election process. "An accompanying online teacher resource center includes lesson plans based on the Common Core Standards making it easy to integrate the games and activities into the classroom.   Features of "Play the Election" Digital Learning Game * Interactive electoral map - Breaks down the Electoral College by state, details past election results, real-time polling data, election-related headlines, and more. * Digital Mini-Games - Students can choose from eleven different mini-games that reinforce key concepts of the election, delve deeper into the issues of influential and battleground states, and tie core civics curriculum to current events. * Standards-aligned lesson plans - Professionally-created lesson plans for educators that cover key aspects of the 2012 Election, the Electoral College, and major debates. * Student Access - Each student creates their own unique profile that allows them to save and edit their own electoral map, play and track their progress through the games, and see how their answers stack up against those of others in their class or the country. * Create Your Own Games - Teachers can create their own mini-games to reinforce key concepts or to teach new, related events. "Play the Election" was created in collaboration with ImpactGames and is powered by ImpactGames' Knight News Game award winning platform."
Sheryl Anderson

HistoryPin - 0 views

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    This is a website where you can see a digital picture-history all over a world map. You can choose a time period and/or place to view, and you can add your own pictures to a place.
Sheryl Anderson

FlexBook - 0 views

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    Open source digital textbooks
Sheryl Anderson

Power My Learning - 0 views

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    Online platform for digital learning activities
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » History Pin - 0 views

  • What it is:  History Pin is a really neat website that lets students (and anyone) electronically “pin” historical pictures, videos, audio clips, and stories to a digital globe.  There are three main ways to use History Pin: exploring it, adding to it, or curating things on it
  • How to integrate History Pin into the classroom: History Pin is a neat place for students to learn about history.  They can see history through pictures, video and stories submitted by people around the world.  History Pin is also a fantastic place for students to demonstrate learning.  They can add pins, create collections or tours around their learning.
Tracy Watanabe

Home: About CAP Civic Action Project | High School Civics Government Curriculum | Lesso... - 0 views

  • Civic Action Project (CAP) is a project-based learning model for civics and government courses. It offers a practicum for high school students in effective and engaged citizenship and uses blended learning to engage students in civic activities both in and out of the traditional U.S. government classroom. By using web-based technology and civics-based instruction and activities, students exercise important 21st century skills in digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, self-direction, and learning to be an engaged and effective citizen in a democracy.
Sheryl Anderson

Teaching History - National History Education Clearing House - 0 views

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    Resources for history lessons that use primary sources and inquiry
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