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The creation of the 50 star American Flag by Robert Heft

Story of the creation of the 50 star American flag by a high school student, Robert Heft

A great short film on the Next Vista for Learning site. It is a short explanation of The Black Death and was created by a teacher in California. The video was a winning entry in one of Next Vista's video creation contests. An example of something I would like to emulate at my school.

This activity is targeted to the critical analysis and construction of understanding of war poetry.  The tasks involve developing an understanding of the effects that warfare has on the individual soldier as a snapshot of the battle experience that most men experienced during the brutal trench war conflicts of the first world war.

A re-creation of PT Barnum's American Museum as a lens into mid-19th century New York City and antebellum America. The Lost Museum website offers visitors a visualization and spacial interpretation of this extraordinary institution as well as an innovative way to learn and teach about the many issues and events of the period.

The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.

Create, Express, Learn with PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

Create, Express, Learn with PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS - I'd like to share 5 sites that go one step further than Creative Commons materials. These sites host primary source materials and encourage young people to use them to produce and publish their own creations. Some even include online tools to help students with the process.

Great site for helping with Content Vocab. Free and no account creation required.

A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free)

"The Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. We also give advice on the creation and use of these resources, and are involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources. "

I just didn't get that explanation. I read it three times and still didn't get it. It's from Oxford though so should be good.

Larry Ferlazzo's excellent set of resources relating to the use of comics and their creation in the classroom.

A set of lessons and resources relating to the creation and use of comics in the classroom.