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A site where students or teachers can upload a file (100 MB limit) so all can access it through the Web. The site keeps your document private and allows you to set an expire time from 30 minutes to 1 week.

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. Includes teacher resources and student activities.

Students can access free Adobe and Flash Player software readers from this link if they do not have the Adobe software at home to open .pdf documents or certain multimedia files.

Convert documents to .PDF format for free using this site.

Screencast.com allows you to upload videos, documents, images, and presentations to a free Web host and link to it or embed a code on your Web page. This way, you can view your work without taking up tons of space on your own hard drive, or others can vie

Students can download Word Viewer 2003 from here if they do not have Word on their home computers. Reads Word 97 and later documents.

A database of primary sources, photos, political cartoons, speeches, letters, & other historic documents, gathered from the FDR Presidential Library, the National Archives, the LOC, & other sources.

Basic info, resources & historical documents related to US Gov't & Politics. Provides factual, non-partisan info about government & politics in the USA.

NuancePDF.com is a cloud-based conversion service that lets you turn PDF files into fully formatted Word and Excel files - right from the free Nuance PDF Reader!  With Nuance PDF Reader, you get the most accurate online PDF conversion available through NuancePDF.com - without having to install extra software. No more copying and pasting or retyping PDF documents. Just use our hosted web service to convert PDF to Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect using Nuance's industry-leading OCR technology. It's never been easier to upload, convert, and start using information previously trapped in a PDF.

"# Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code. # Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. # Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. # Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."

"Study the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on specific groups such as African Americans, women and children by studying images, maps, documents and life histories. Trace the history of labor unions. Access photographs taken by Works Progress Administration photographers and read expert commentary on Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" picture."

"The TwHistory project began in early 2009 with the first Twitter reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg over a period of several weeks. TwHistory is based on the idea that historical reenactments can take place online and have positive effects for all involved. In school settings these virtual reenactments can increase engagement while providing opportunities for students to research personal journals and other primary source documents. In order to organize, study, and preserve these online reenactments we have created TwHistory.org. View past and current projects on our reenactments page. You can also follow us on Twitter at @TwHistory."

Shared by Ty Yost on list. Includes documents such as Collaboration Tools policy, release forms, permission to use student work, plus a bunch of tutorials.

is a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of VA that allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. It even allows students to create their own videos.

"CASP is the first research project of its kind devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatrical practice. "

Check this out. The education technology space has seen an explosion of new offerings in the past few years. What has been missing is a centralized platform for schools and universities to easily evaluate and utilize web apps. Today we are excited to launch an education category in the Google Apps Marketplace designed specifically to help schools and universities easily discover and deploy new web applications that integrate with their existing Google Apps accounts. The new education category includes over 20 applications from 19 vendors ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to student tools and teaching aids - all of which integrate with Google Apps for Education. Each app can be accessed through single sign-on and the Google universal navigation bar and many offer deeper integrations that synchronize with Google Calendar and Documents.

Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators.

Ficly is about creativity. When I was originally thinking about this idea, I was looking for something creative I could do for the last fifteen minutes of my lunch break before I jumped back into coding and writing documentation. I'd originally had an idea for a much larger site for serious fiction, but realized that most people don't have the time to write serious fiction. But, everyone can carve out fifteen minutes to either continue a story someone else has started, or start something of their own - something simple - two, maybe three paragraphs of a character, a plot or even just a place. That's the premise. We impose a limit of 1,024 characters because we think constraints are good. They make you choose your words more carefully. They also make it less daunting than starting at a never-ending blank screen in a word processor. All you have to do is write one kilobyte of something - something fictional. That's all.

from Michael Horn's Horn's Innosight Institute and The Charter School Growth Fund.

"The paper profiles 40 influential blended learning organizations that are among the earliest pioneers of this fast-growing sector-including several Apex Learning high school district partners such as Chicago's VOISE Academy (pg 150) and Wichita Public (pg 157). Also documented is the effectiveness achieved by these organizations in reducing costs and improving academic performance with high quality, personalized instruction through online learning in brick-and-mortar classrooms."