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"The Uncle Reuben Project is an interdisciplinary, authentic learning project going on in my classroom. It brings genealogy into my classroom and engages my students with real world learning experiences! Resources and primary source documents can be found at the links to the right."

"The Memoro Project is a non profit online initiative dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940. An editorial staff identifies and authenticates the material uploaded by the volunteers involved in the project. The Memoro Project was created by Memoro S.r.l. with the financial support of the Province of Cuneo, Italy. [...]"

Could be useful when teaching oral history to students. Or not. It's up to you.

"This Multidisciplinary unit enables learners and instructors to make direct connections between themselves and the history around them by tracking their family's history through time and space."

I'd already saved this but it's such a good source for primary images that I've updated the tags and re-saved it. Flickr contains a surprisingly vast collection of historically relevant images and I'd recommend it for classroom resource design or student research. I guess, like with all user-generated content, there will be issues with the legitimacy and authenticity of some of the images however there are still many reliable photosets I've found which would be useful for a history teacher.

This is a collection of publicly held photographic archives, all put together on Flickr.

I believe this to be one of the better resource sites for American History

That site looks awesome.

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