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A great tool for students to use to understand the sequence of events in the Arab Spring and to understand historical significance.  It would be interesting to ask students to compare international responses to the various uprisings and ask them to make a judgement about the fairness of each response.

Old Maps- find old maps of nearly every area for the last 1000 years.  Great tool for inquiry based learning. 

MapMaker Interactive Explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map" Physical, human and enviornmental

A collection of free history learning materials for students and teachers.

Contains many useful tools and services for history teachers. There are online experts for tutoring and some good-quality sources. Looks like it's going to get even better.

Includes a History/Culture catagrory

"Waymarking is a way to mark unique locations on the planet and give them a voice. While GPS technology allows us to pinpoint any location on the planet, mark the location, and share it with others, Waymarking is the toolset for categorizing and adding unique information for that location. Groundspeak's slogan is "The Language of Location" and our goal is to give people the tools to help others share and discover unique and interesting locations on the planet. We invite you to share your part of the world with us through Waymarking.com."

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.

A site which students can use to... actually I don't get it. If it works though it looks very cool. It's something the kids can use as little mini-historians and then publish the product to the web. It's focussed on US history (well they are the 'hyperpower', aren't they?).

This is a group on Ning for like-minded educators. For those of you unfamiliar with Ning, I'd recommend a look. It has some great tools for developing networks with other educators.

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.

A very good guide for students on how to do digital primary source research.

Resources, Tools, links, for History Teachers.

Excellent tool for creating short historical films for your students. They even have a free Napoleon one you can download. Very funny.

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.

A description of all the free tools and content published by Dulcinea Media to help social studies teachers integrate the Web into the classroom.

Using Google Tools to create e-portfolios

Some useful tools and strategies for developing critical thinking tasks that use technology in the classroom.

The approximately 1,275 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.