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Mitch Weisburgh

Learn about the National Atlas - 9 views

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  • Mitch Weisburgh on 22 Jul 10
     
    If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a map is worth ten thousand. This is not like any atlas you remember. Maps of America are what you'll find and make on nationalatlas.gov™. Maps of innovation and vision that illustrate our changing Nation. Maps that capture and depict the patterns, conditions, and trends of American life. Maps that supplement interesting articles. Maps that tell their own stories. Maps that cover all of the United States or just your area of interest. Maps that are accurate and reliable from more than 20 Federal organizations. Maps about America's people, heritage, and resources. Maps that will help you, your children, your colleagues, and your friends understand the United States and its place in the world."
Mitch Weisburgh

Arrowhead Elementary School | Library - 3 views

www.methacton.org/...browse.asp

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shared by Mitch Weisburgh on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Mitch Weisburgh on 03 Dec 09
     
    website that features histories, links, and pictures of the different explorers
David Hilton

http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/downloads/pdfs/Resource_Guide/English/English_PA_Teache... - 10 views

picturingamerica.neh.gov/...English_PA_TeachersGuide.pdf

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shared by David Hilton on 15 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 15 Dec 10
     
    A guide to teaching some of the seminal images of American history. 
  • Jeremy Greene on 18 Dec 10
     
    Also check out Picturing Early America, especially the unit plans from 2009 (ones from 2010, including one from yours truly coming soon): http://picturingamerica.salemstate.edu/
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Civil War, Beautiful Pictures, and Infographics - 18 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 25 Jan 13
     
    Over 1400 Civil War photographs plus infographics, and beautiful images.
David Hilton

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures - 2 views

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shared by David Hilton on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 08 Aug 09
     
    A presentation of 68 motion pictures recording images of that American adventure in old-style colonialism, the Spanish-American War. Filmed in the US, Cuba and the Philippines.
Deven Black

Where children sleep - Telegraph - 1 views

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  • Deven Black on 19 Oct 10
     
    Pictures of children and where they sleep. The contrats are staggering.
Deven Black

picturing the thirties - 14 views

americanart.si.edu/...picturing_the_1930s

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  • Deven Black on 23 Oct 09
     
    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
Eric Beckman

Wheelan Collection of Mexican Revolution Photographs - 0 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 22 Apr 19
     
    Lots of pictures!
David Hilton

BBC - History: World War One - 13 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...wwone

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shared by David Hilton on 14 Mar 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 14 Mar 10
     
    A glossy and well-resourced site with information on the main conflicts of the twentieth century. Takes a British perspective (unsurprisingly).
  • Aaron Shaw on 15 Mar 10
     
    This is a great site! I am very impressed with the quality of the pictures and the use of them.
Brian DeGraaf

BBC NEWS | World News America | Capturing history a picture at a time - 0 views

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  • Brian DeGraaf on 29 Aug 09
     
    Follow Andrew Carroll on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hereiswhere
  • Brian DeGraaf on 29 Aug 09
     
    This is a 5 minute video video introduction to the "Here is Where" Project. "President Harry Truman once said that "the only thing new in this world is the history you don't know." Andrew Carroll is determined that many more Americans will know about their country's past, and particularly about quirky, previously obscure events and locations.He calls his project "Here is Where..." and he is traveling through all 50 states photographing and writing about long-forgotten people and places.\n\nIn this First Person account, Andrew provides examples of the historical 'nuggets' he's unearthing."
HistoryGrl14 .

Educators - 12 views

picturingamerica.neh.gov/educators.php

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shared by HistoryGrl14 . on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • HistoryGrl14 . on 25 Oct 10
     
    You can no longer apply for this program and get materials sent to you...BUT, if you look at the bottom of the "Educators" page, you will see links to download electronically the entire educator's resource book (I couldn't get the whole book as one download, but downloading chapter by chapter worked), AND the PPT with all of the images!! AWESOME resource!!
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

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  • Christina Briola on 12 Nov 10
     
    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
  • Jeremy Greene on 16 Nov 10
     
    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
David Hilton

Talking History - 11 views

historymatters.gmu.edu/...talkhist

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  • David Hilton on 02 Nov 09
     
    "Over the past several years, History Matters has organized twenty-five online dialogues with leading historians and teachers about the the teaching of major topics in U.S. history--from early settlement to the Vietnam War. Those discussions are archived here and contain many useful teaching suggestions"
  • David Hilton on 02 Nov 09
     
    There are a couple of pages on this site which might be useful for history teachers in challenging us to reflect on our practice. I don't know about you, but too often I get so caught up in the bureaucratic paperwork and day-to-day of teaching I forget to reflect on the big picture of what teaching history is all about...
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