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Combating Plagiarism on the Digital Frontier - 15 views
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Using lesson plans to structure assignments and combat plagiarism
Students' Guide to Web Search - 0 views
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The Internet has many sites with information and help for homework assignments. But how do you know if the information a site contains is reliable? The Students' Guide to Web Search helps you learn how to tell a good site from a garbage site, and shows you how to start searching smart.
Learning Historical Research - William Cronon - 14 views
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Bill Cronon's website that focuses on tools, assignment, etc. that help students conduct research, synthesize results, and practice other elements of the historical profession.
TitanPad - 8 views
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Create a public space for group collaboration on the fly. Might be a great tool to have on-line discussion with students, or a place for students to collaborate on an assignment.
Hunters with amnesia - 8 views
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This webquest, 'Hunters with amnesia', is an example of an activating teaching method (activating instructional format) called the AQUA, which stands for Activating prior knowledge, asking Questions and searching for Answers. The AQUA is related to problem-based learning. 'Hunters with amnesia' is an assignment about the life of hunters and gatherers in prehistoric times, but is also an assignment about activating prior knowledge, misconceptions, the formulation of questions and about the search for information (information skills) and cooperative learning.
OTR.Network Library (The Old Time Radio Network) - 7 views
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A huge resource for historical radio programs. We have a group assignment where students create their own radio show and this would provide some good resources for demonstrating historical format, content and language.
Anthony Armstrong's US History Class Wiki - 22 views
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Amazing, resourceful, student-centered class wiki for US History. Student blogs, course content, projects and assignments. Fantastic resource for any social studies teacher.
Edward L. Bernays Propaganda (1928) - 1 views
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A book far ahead of it's time. Easy to find a selection for homework or lesson prompt - from the weaponization of public opinion to the marketing of cigarettes. Students could just flip through the book or you could assign specific readings.
"The GOP organized in the 1850s" Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) on Twitter: - 3 views
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This narrative of the sectionalism and the growth of the Republican party is every bit as valid as the narrative canon, though its significantly different. The bullet point nature of this Twiiter thread and its natural inclusion of primary source documents makes this a strong candidate as the baseline reading assignment for US history students
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations | The Society for Historians o... - 5 views
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The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has a variety of resources available for teachers on its website, including syllabi, primary sources, and assignments.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident - 2 views
The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 - 0 views
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A collection of over 8000 photos from East Africa from 1860-1960. Probably useful for classroom resources (you know, stick 'em on a worksheet, that type of thing), assessment pieces or in student research. I found with my year 12s that they needed some guidance on how to extract historical information from images ('thinking historically') but after that they used images like these well in their research for their assignments.
Flickr: History Directory - 0 views
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This is an enormous repository of images on flickr all devoted to history. The images are uploads are all done by random people (problem) so the tagging might be even worse than when I bookmark sites to our group. There'll be some gems in with all the trash though - useful for PowerPoints, sources on exams, student assignments, etc?
Category:Middle Ages - Wikimedia Commons - 0 views
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Even though this is a wiki I've found this site useful for getting images to use for PowerPoints, assignment sheets, etc. It can be a bit hit-and-miss but is usually pretty good, I reckon.
Ancient History with Alex - 0 views
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This is a podcast produced by one of my year 11 students for an assignment.
webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events - 0 views
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I've found these really useful for my year 12s. Berkeley has an awesome history department and it's like the kids can be in the room during a lecture. They listen to them and take notes for their assignments. Parents love it, too. I've particularly found Isabelle Pafford useful for her lectures on the ancient world.
Historical Role Playing for Engagement, Authenticity, and Interaction - 20 views
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This is an article I co-wrote on using a technique (RAFT = role, audience, format, topic) to make history work more creative and worth while for students. I would love to hear what others think about the assignment
Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views
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Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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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 . . .
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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