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"a nice little resource for history teachers to bookmark and share with their students. On Timelines.tv you can find six timelines of important eras in U.S. and European history. Each timeline includes short (3-10 minute) videos about people and events in the era. The timelines also include pictures and short text descriptions. The six timelines currently available are A History of Britain, The American West, Medicine Through Time, American Voices, The Edwardians, and Nazi Germany. More timelines appear to planned for publication in the future."

According to Richard Byrne on his Free Technology for Teachers blog, "Timelines.tv could be a nice resource to share with students as a tool to review an era after you have taught some lessons on it. "

"Newly published research suggests nuggets of misinformation embedded in a fictional television program can seep into our brains and lodge there as perceived facts. What's more, this troubling dynamic seems to occur even when our initial response is skepticism."

Very, very interesting piece. There are lots of ideas for discussion in this article.

great site for teaching economics

"The HistoryMakers Digital Archive of 310 African American video oral history interviews available online for the first time on a test basis to registered users. Founded in July of 1999, The HistoryMakers (www.thehistorymakers.com) has grown into the nation's largest African American video oral history archive. Its collection includes the interviews of President Barack Obama (then an Illinois State Senator), TV actress Kim Fields, and Civil Rights leader Julian Bond, to name a few."

Fun site which creates inboxes for people from history, lit, and entertainment.

possible idea for an assignment. Might just be a fun way to learn about a world leader or an incident.

"The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis."