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Analyzing Documents Teach students the process of document analysis, the foundation for working with primary sources: 1. Meet the document. 2. Observe its parts. 3. Try to make sense of it. 4. Use it as historical evidence. Learning Objectives: Think through primary source documents (photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, or sound recordings) for contextual understanding. Extract information to make informed judgments. Internalize the process of analyzing primary source documents."

"The ELA Common Core State Standards (CCSS)  suggest the use of more primary source materials in science and social studies classes.  I agree that this will bring some interesting experiences to class and expose kids to some historically important documents."

"Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD."

"ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It's brought to you by the team behind Zotero, the powerful open-source research tool recommended by thousands of universities worldwide, so you can trust it to help you seamlessly add sources and produce perfect bibliographies."

Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students.

"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines."

Suggestions for students to help with finding credible, relevant sources for research.

"Here is a handy guide for students published by EasyBib. The guide takes students through a variety of websites, pointing out signs relating to their reliability.  By looking closely at information relating to a site's author, date of publication, citations and links, as well as publisher information, students can get a better grasp of what makes a website a credible source. "

"Some of you are still probably not sure about the difference between what constitutes a copyright infringement and fair use. Well the post I have for you today might help illuminate the key differences between the two concepts. This post is based on  a two days work reading a wide variety of resources pertaining to copyright and . Please check the references below to learn more about my sources."

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

"Draftback is a Chrome extension that indexes the revision history of a document then allows you to watch a video of the doc being created.  You can watch as a document goes from a blank page to the final version that was submitted for a grade.  This is helpful on two fronts: 1. Clicking the document graph and statistics will show you exactly how much time each student spent creating the file.  This makes it very easy to see who participated in a group assignment. 2. Think a student plagiarized something?  You can watch to see if large portions of text were pasted onto the document from an outside source.  This is a great way to keep the student's honest."

"Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there, what topics other participants want to discuss, join an "unhangout," and chat with each other."

A fun quiz site where the user must discover whether a published news article is fake or real. A great site for older students when teaching about vitality of sources.

"Cite This For Me is one of the most popular citation tools today. Launched in October 2010, we began with the mission of helping students create perfect citations in a fraction of the time. Citing isn't something you usually think about, but it's important nonetheless. Without even realizing it, you do it already in your everyday life in little ways. Have you ever said, "I heard on XYZ News that . . . ," or "I read in XYZ that those two celebrities are dating," or even "Mom said that you can't do that." By saying where you got your information, you are casually citing a source."

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