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The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities for students. Shared by Jesse White

Docs Teach provides ready to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom.

Shared by Brita Byers. "allows you to upload any digital image and then choose the size you want to make it. The website then allows you to print out the image using 8x10 sheets of paper that you can tape or glue together to create a poster-sized image."

Origami for kids. There are lots of free ideas from a variety of categories with instructions on how to create with paper.\n\n

Zoho provides an easy online word processor to create, connect, and collaborate.

"Skoolaborate is a global initiative uses a blend of technologies including, blogs, online learning, wiki's and 'virtual worlds' to transform learning. We aim to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for students aged between 13 and 18 years of age. We aim to learn how to use these blended experiences to make learning more meaningful and engaging. The projects we create will integrate curriculum and digital technologies into collaborative global actions. Our virtual learning space is secure and only accessible via invitation. Students from schools around the world are invited to participate. Initiated and manage by Westley Field at MLC School Sydney, Skoolaborate now has over 40 schools and organisations from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Chile, Portugal, Canada, the UK and the USA."

"Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more"

Interesting tool with a free option.

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: Improve their writing. Show creativity. Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment"

Resource for teachers about digital storytelling.

"Eraserdog is created for the Teacher, Parent, or Student looking for a variety of worksheets to supplement an existing math curriculum."

Interactive from National Geographic - students create their own tornadoes based on appropriate conditions for a tornado. Also includes case study activities.

Create professional webpages with ease. Can set up teacher-accounts that can group student accounts together in order to make online projects.

Off the charts Karoke is a PBS site. You can create your own song or poem and music will be put to it and you can sing along.

The big myth is a website of stories from around the world of how the earth was created.

This math site was created to help students. It is an on-going work in progress and will be updated periodically. There are a lot of free math worksheets on the site.

History matters is a database of coursework, guides, and primary-source documetns on topics in American history, History Matters was produced by two academic programs at the City Unviersity of New York and George Mason University. The site is most useful for high school history teachers and studetns, and educators can use it as a professional-development resource. The Digital Blackboard page offersr curriculum guides with links to third-party reference sites. Another page hosts a series of Q & A interviews with history teachers, who reveal the secrets behind teaching a successful history course. The Students as Historians page links to web-based projects created by high school and college students. And don't forget to check out the primary-source search engine, located on the Many Pasts page. The search enging links to more than a thousand images, audio, and text-based documenets from American history sites across the Internet.

Mobile Geotagging allows users to post media (photos, video, audio or text) from a mobile phone to a specific point on a map. Flagr allows users to create public, semiprivate, or private maps. Great tool for teachers in many subject areas to enhance learning. For example, students studying habitats or different biological species can take pictures within their community and then send each picture band a description of where the habitat or species was found. In the classroom the teacher opens up the class flagr map and the students then identify the species and discuss why they were found in each particular habitat.

Their passionate concern about climate change and love for the natural environment, and a grant from the National Science Foundation to Paul, created the opportunity to capture, in the form of "Video Storytelling," the voices of the Arctic, and the scientists who study it.

"TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs." Create a realtime, private, back-channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.

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Comic master allows you to create your own short graphic novel. This is a fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-and-drop interface.

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This is a user friendly site that uses a drag-and-drop interface to edit and mix video. "Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos and SoundCloud clips. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos."

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Jay Cut is a site similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. FREE

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