Content Literacy

Great tool for creating dynamic timelines. Easy to use with great examples. Here's an example that a teacher uses with his English class http://mhsenglish10.wikispaces.com/Early+Am+Lit

The art of personal storytelling. Great how to resource in PDF form on the site

Digital Story telling examples including Scott County Kentucky's DS examples

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

A service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ) to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. Constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

Web site dedicated to students, teachers, parents, and the general public-to read milestone documents, consider their meaning, discuss them, and decide which are the most significant and why. This initiative creates a number of ways to do that-through classroom activities and competitions, and votes.

Great social studies resource. Lots of PRIMARY SOURCE material, as well as models for how to link to material, write secondary accounts that use primary sources. Great teacher resource!

Fairly interactive, some primary source pictures, some primary source material. A great example of how a timeline can be used to show the flow of related events or just things that happen when.

Interesting discussion of how to deal with plagarism by teaching students to include links to material, giving credit for the thought and including their own perspective of why it's important. Plagarism is not going away, so how do we teach our students about how to deal with it.

A nice balance of videos from instructional point of view and from student product point of view. Worth looking at for the specific content examples as well.

Original Web 2.0 description by Tim O'Reilly 2005.

MIT Open Courseware. A great way for students to access material that may not be presented at their level anywhere else. For that matter a great place for teachers to brush up and expand their thinking. I spent about an hour on the combinatorics course developed by an MIT student for high school math students who are 'bored' by high school math classes. If you are interested, it pushed my understanding pretty quickly!

Another persons effort to organize Web 2.0 applications, so you and I don't have to. I think it's a pretty good list, and worth looking at if you are looking for some new tools. I particularly like earth album http://www.earthalbum.com/

Welcome to The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created for teachers looking to incorporate technology into their classrooms! THWT aims to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is "Amplifying Possibilities". This year's conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three "Fireside Chats" and a culminating "When Night Falls" event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations. More information about podcast channels and conference web feeds is available!

An online tool to mash up photos, and audio in a cool way. Easy to use with students.

Using this article with a middle school teacher in the development of interactive student notebooks. We are using this article to help set the tone that her students can be mathematicians, to change their understanding of what a mathematician is, etc. Any other examples that you may have and are willing to share would be appreciated.

Mr. Greer's ISN page. Nice example of how to set it up for kids. I really like these two boxes on the page: Why use an interactive notebook? 1. Students use both their visual and linguistic intelligences 2. Note-taking becomes an active process 3. Notebooks help students to systematically organize as they learn 4. Notebooks become a portfolio of individual learning Personal Response Instructions 1. Summarize the new information you have learned from the activity/presentation 2. Relate or connect this new learning to what you previously knew about the topic 3. Tell how you feel about what you have learned. At least 3 paragraphs are needed to meet the expectations for this assignment.

Nice resource for ISNs implementation. I like her powerpoint presentation. Nice, simple explanation. Good resource to go to, to get started. No explicit math connections

great resource. Nice layout for a how it works feature article. Students can find articles that relate to some interest that they have.