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Timelines.com is the first web site that enables people like you to collaboratively record, discover and share history. It's history recorded by the people, for the people.

The Center for Civic Education is pleased to announce 60-Second Civics, a new daily podcast that provides a quick and convenient way for listeners to learn about our nation's government, the U.S. Constitution, and American history. The podcast explores themes related to civics and government, the constitutional issues behind the headlines, and the people and ideas that formed our nation's history and government. How much do you know about American civics, history, and government? Listen to the 60-Second Civics podcast, then test your knowledge by visiting the Center's homepage to take the Daily Civics Quiz. To subscribe to 60-Second Civics, visit www.civiced.org. You can also find 60-Second Civics at iTunes or Podcast Alley.

great math website and biology and history

Virtual tour of Smithsonian - National Museum of Natural History

A nice site for History Tours in Google Earth

Explore U.S. history using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Kids can discover Americas Story, meet amazing Americans, explore the states. Includes songs, movies, quizzes and short stories about American history.

Using primary source documents, students can use critical thinking to make their own conclusions about what happened in history.

Just saw this tweeted today. Enter a keyword, hashtag, or user name to build a history of their tweets

The Center for Teaching History with Technology is a great tool that uses resources that we have worked with in this course including Google Docs, Wikis, blogs, and more. The Social Studies resources include games, activities, plans, and mores. While I am not an educator, I think it is important to implement these types of tools in the classroom.

Funny. I think I still have one in my cabinet at school. Amazing how far digital photography has come in a short time.

The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities that students can access over the internet.

"Allow a student to create a faux Facebook page for a famous person from history using a Google Drawing! A fun way to introduce research to students."

We have created a list of what we think are the best available apps out there and have categorized them into the following: Science, Language, Math, Administrative & Content Management, Interactive & Online Classrooms, Study Aids, Video & Imaging, Music, Multimedia, Geography & History, and Mapping Tools.

Check this out. Some great finds in here. All free.

"PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!."

This looks like a great site for teaching and learning geography, history and some science topics. I checked the Terms of Use and there is no age limit. Your can play the games anonymously. However, to make a game you need to sign up for an account. All you need is an email. I can definitely see a good use for this for teachers to make games for students. However, I think it would be really cool to have students create games based on curriculum topics. This could be a good intro to learning simple programming such as Scratch.

The First Thanksgiving...starts with voyage on Mayflower

This blog post in History Tech shares several great tools for the iPad and iPod that educators could use. The most interesting tools I feel would be helpful for a Social Studies Teacher would be the US Historical Documents as well as the World Fact Book. My favorite Web 2.0 tool on this list which I have used is the My Congress application where you can learn more about those who represent you in the United States Congress. This tool would be great for government classes! All of these resources appear to be very helpful for educators.

Pursuant to one of our class discussions last week on the "flipped classroom" in HU's LTMS 600 this is an excellent article on the history of Bergman and Sam's philosophical shift in their instructional strategy.

Activities for Constitution Day.

Great site to prepare you for National Constitution Day.