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Great interactive visual for doing research.

Great visual on research, appropriate for younger grades (probably best for 3-8 but could be used in HS). Though it is geared towards younger students it would be a great way to introduce research to freshmen or struggling students.

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."

"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

Reversal of the Great Migration in Chicago as redistricting is discussed

Contemporary discussion referencing Great Migration

Great for AP History course playlists!

Site that contains free films for educational purposes

great site for documentaries. Free!

There are some great resources here.

Great ideas for using wikipedia in a lesson

Some great ides for using wikipedia in a lesson. Can be modified for all topics, subjects

Great post with video tutorial on how to use a new video bookmarking service call Radbox. Looks like a very useful way to store all of ur ed videos in one place.

Great post on using google advanced search. Easy to follow ideas

Great post on teaching advanced search and why it is important to teach these techniques.

Another great piece on the role of the school librarian.

Some great ideas for collaborating with the library!

Great site to use for comparing websites.

Interesting site which creates a template to use to compare up to 3 websites. Great for information literacy!

Takes a word in the news and posts articles that use the word. Very good site for analyzing the news and how it is reported. This site would be a great tool in the social studies classroom but would be an excellent way to study vocabulary.

Really interesting site which studies how the media uses certain words. Great way to study and analyze how the news is reported.

great article from the LOC on primary sources. Very easy to understand with examples

Great explanation of primary sources. Good starting point for students

This is a great report about the situation in Honduras. As many of our students are from Honduras and have family member there, it provides us with a glimpse of how difficult life there is at the moment.

"VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. "

Great post by Debbie Abilock on evaluating sources and why it is so important

Great list of resources on infographics from the NY Times

great list of resources here.

great way to analyze primary sources from UC Irvine

Great overview of EasyBib. Includes info on adding to google apps.