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"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore."

This could be very helpful for finding more sources on a topic.

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!

From Berkeley a guide to evaluating websites

Useful guidelines for website evaluation

"The Maps & Data section of the U.S. Census Bureau's website is a good place to find that data in a visual format. In the Maps & Data section of the U.S. Census Bureau's website you can explore thematic maps about the population of the United States. " This is from Richard Byrne.

Great site for evaluating websites.

This site is really helpful! This is a winner!

Great list- also check out cybraryman's list of government sites- http://www.cybraryman.com/government.html and his site for the constitution http://www.cybraryman.com/constitution.html

Website from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation to showcase some primary source materials about Abraham Lincoln online. The materials on Under His Hat are arranged into eight sections about Lincoln's life. You can click on materials to make them larger. Lesson plan suggestions are included and some of the documents are also accompanied by audio and video recordings.

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create this site and make freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. "Through this website, you will be able to read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic."

website devoted to the 2012 election.

Post about snapguide which "...is a website, but it's also an app, and the app makes it really easy to take pictures or video of steps in a process and integrate them into a guide."

This could be a really useful site to use with classes.

"Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don't just learn "about" reading: you learn to read. You don't just learn "about" arithmetic: you learn to count and calculate. You don't just learn "about" the web: you learn to make your own website. As with these other three literacies, web literacy begins simply, with basics you can build upon. For some it can lead to a profession (i.e. becoming a computer programmer) while for most it becomes part of the conceptual DNA that helps you to understand and negotiate the world you live in."

Not specific to social studies but an important article about the importance of web and digital literacies.

"a visual search engine that displays results in 4 grids which give webpage previews. The entire page is visible in preview instead of just a list of results with links and summaries. Oolone can be used for standard website search, for image search, or news search.

This search engine is so visual it may be very helpful for some students. Check it out.

A website where teachers or students can produce infographics.

"an oral history website produced by SUNY Albany for the purpose of sharing history lessons and audio artifacts. Every week Talking History publishes two audio segments about various historical topics. One of the segments features historians talking about an event or theme in history. The other segment features an audio artifact about an event or theme."

"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."

Collaborative way to create a digital timeline

Links to many different history websites from presidential libraries to games to social studies blogs and so much more!

Long list of sites related to the study of American History. The selected websites have been recommended and vetted by TAH Teacher-Historians.

Website for digital, information, and citizenship litereracies

RT @ktenkely: How Tru could be huge for education- building credibility on web, digital footprints "Revealing the veracity of information through credibility HowTru enables you to share your knowledge and expertise with the crowd, working together to measure the accuracy of news, blogs and more."

New site- the wikipedia of website veracity. Could have lots of use in a class

"Create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts,email, forums, and websites."

Another screenshot tool. It's from Mbarek so it has to be good!