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What I love about presenting is how themes emerge within my presentations that I was never thinking about before the conference begins. But somewhere in the process of doing 6 presentations at the EARCOS Teacher's Conference a theme in my sessions emerged.What is your container?We talked in many of

Recordings from the 2010 Global Education Conference. 

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference, September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, for K-12 teachers. Designed to provide educators with resources and strategies for discussing the September 11 attacks at the 10th anniversary, the conference will include roundtable discussions with content experts and six workshop sessions. These sessions and the conference website highlight resources available at each organization, provide background information on September 11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.

backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.

The Economic History Association owns and operates the EH.net website and mailing lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields. The Economic History Society (U.K.), the Business History Conference, and the Cliometric Society also support the site.

Looks useful for research into economic history.

A big part about ADE is creating something within your group. They call it challenge based learning.....I'd call it getting creative!We....teachers....do not get creative very often....do not take the time to get creative. I mean really creative.That's what we were able to do at the ADE conference.

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

HWPP is an online space for scholars to share works-in-progress with their peers. After uploading a conference paper, essay, or article manuscript to the HWPP website, authors can invite others to read their work and make comments in the margins. As more people respond, writers get more feedback. But, unlike traditional comments done on paper, HWPP allows commenters and authors to interact with each other. They can read each other's marginalia and engage in dialogue about it. In fact, entire threaded discussions can take place in the margins. Here's what it looks like:

On September 11, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge were sent by the Continental Congress to met with Admiral Howe at the Conference House in Staten Island, New York. Their mission was to avoid a war. After only three hours the meeting ended. They failed! What could have happened that day? That's what our project is all about. The goal of this project is for classes to negotiate ... via email ... and try to come up with a treaty that could have avoided the American Revolution! This project can also be adapted for any other war!

WWI cartoons - but about Versailles Peace Conference

PeopleLink offers a unique solution for this vertical capable of delivering best in Class Video experience, flexible scalability, and a comprehensive set of data collaboration tools which make learning extremely effective & efficient.

Thanks for this excellent link, Daniel. Those Canadians seem to have some pretty good ideas on how to study history.

Two weeks ago I heard a conference by Peter Seixas (the Canadian who is behind these benchmarks) and it was absolutely inspiring... if ever you have the opportunity, go and see and hear him talking about history teaching!

The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held January 7-10, 2010 in San Diego with events scheduled in the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego (headquarters) and San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina (co-headquarters). The meeting hotels are located (PDF) on San Diego Bay adjacent to the Gaslamp Quarter.

To those of you who recently joined the group after the QHTA State Conference, I promised that I would provide the podcast of my presentation if any of you missed anything. Here it is. I've also placed some of my lesson podcasts here. Alternately, you can subsribe to my podcasts on iTunes by searching for David Hilton. As sources they're probably unreliable...

Has access to online history scholarship, although by the looks of it some of the materials there can only be accessed after you've paid membership.

This video provides sources via the Smithsonian for online conferences about Abraham Lincoln,and it's just funny.

Thanks for adding that mate. I just went to a conference on the National Curriculum and came away less informed on what we have to do than before I went! Come to think of it, I might start a conversation on that.