This is the forum of the My History Network. Please join up & bring your students along. The students involved have found it beneficial to their engagement with and understandings of history.
This is the Twitter feed my students and I use to keep in touch. It would be exciting if some other schools got involved too...
The students really enjoy it.
We're getting a new server at the school soon (to be honest, I don't really know what that means...) which will enable us to link up with others. When it's up and running I'll be in touch and see what we can do. It would be very beneficial to share resources for student research and lessons, I think. To be continued... (^)_(^)
I just had a look at the month-long free trial and this looks like a great resource for lessons or student research on history and geography. I'm waiting to receive a quote on how much an annual subscription costs. Subscriptions like this, I believe, can become excellent substitutes for textbooks.
Thanks globaleducator (something tells me that perhaps that's not the name on your birth certificate...) for adding this site. I'm just saving the main page so I can refer back to it later when we're buying resources for our department.
The main page for this site is already in the group, yet this part is particularly designed for teachers. I've recently downloaded some very useful holocaust videos from this site for a unit we do at our school.
We got a student subscription to this for our department (which students can access at home as well with their own login) for Aus$200. Money well spent we think!
PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
I'm loving animated historical maps at the moment, and there are an increasing number available around the place. This one focuses on American involvement in the Pacific during World War and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Lots of fun!