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A quite cool history essay planning tool on Russell Tarr's website www.activehistory.co.uk.

Highly recommend anything from activehistory.co.uk. Russell Tarr is fantastic and his games really capture the interest of those "I hate history" students.

Useful for classroom discussions, days where a fire alarm cuts your class in half, etc.

Russel Tarr's brilliant reaction to Michael Gove's comments about his lesson on "Mr. Men"

An interesting blog from Canada seeking to collect a, um, collection (it's the first day of the holidays and my frontal lobe still has not recovered from the marking season. Sorry...) of articles by historians which are relevant to the broader community. His argument that history has become too specialised and irrelevant is compelling. It gels with much of what I experienced at university, anyway. As I've said before, I use a blog reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines) to collect these types of sites into one place. I get many of the sites I post to the group that way.

This is a link to Russel Tarr's Google+ profile. He runs the www.activehistory.co.uk website which has many great resources. He's starting up a History Teachers group on Google+; it could be great for networking and collaboration. 

I go through the Classpress.net History Headlines every day or two and then produce this digest, which can be subscribed to as an RSS feed.

This site has some good Web 2.0 based resources, including ready-made Google Earth flyovers, overlays and 3-D models.