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Social Studies Ning

"Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "

"For progressive educators who want to actively engage their students in learning about government, law, economics, or citizenship, the Civic Mirror brings these subjects to life both in class and online. Unlike traditional textbook and lecture learning, the Civic Mirror actively involves students as citizens of their own nation, making learning exciting and meaningful and providing an experience they will never forget."

This looks VERY interesting! Teaching civics or government you might want to check this out!

Teacher showing The Civic Mirror http://bit.ly/hwZ8Vg Kids can create their own nations. Cool. #plpnetwork

Documentary on Egypt after the revolution. Interviews and commentary

"Want to understand how high food prices really are? And how they're affecting the world's poor? Take a look at this infographic, which also underlines how hikes in food prices mean the poorest families have to make painful savings in areas such as health and schooling for their children"

an interesting service that is best described as a collaborative search tool. The purpose of Search Team is to enable small teams to collaborate on finding the best information on the web.

Really interesting collaborative search site.

"Convert media files online from one format into another." This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another.

convert any type of file. This could be very handy at times.

Blog reviewing use of iPads in the classroom

"Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming."

interactive map of newspapers around the world with translation feature!

Easy way to find news around the world

Find a newspaper by clicking on location on the map. Can also sort by language. Great resource for World Language and Social Studies classes.

Find and translate newspapers

"A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities."

check out election returns from 1787 to 1825. Searchable by year, candidate, office or state

"lets students travel back in time to Anne Frank's hiding place. Students can explore Anne's house in a super cool 3D interactive environment."

This site looks amazing. Ron D if you are studying Anne Frank in ur WWII class check this out! Anyone else studying either WWII or genocide should look at this site.

"The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."

easy way to find music from different eras

Teaching digital literacy using Wikipedia and the death of Osama Bin Laden

Sone interesting ideas for using cell phones in the classroom.

Interesting ways to use cell phones the classroom

games for learning US history

looks like a fun site

Link to Library of Congress site for teachers. Lots of resources including primary sources

Check out all of these great primary sources from LoC

To watch web videos without comments this site allows you to take youtube videos and take out any of the distracting comments.

Great tool to make sure you're only showing what you want to show!