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Teaching American History- Useful Sites - 0 views

www.tahgrant.net/useful-sites.html social studies US history history resources
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 27 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 27 Oct 10
     
    Long list of sites related to the study of American History. The selected websites have been recommended and vetted by TAH Teacher-Historians.
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Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm learning project-based
shared by scott klepesch on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • A classroom filled with student posters may suggest that students have engaged in meaningful learning. But it is the process of students' learning and the depth of their cognitive engagement— rather than the resulting product—that distinguishes projects from busywork.
  • A classroom filled with student posters may suggest that students have engaged in meaningful learning. But it is the process of students' learning and the depth of their cognitive engagement— rather than the resulting product—that distinguishes projects from busywork
  • scott klepesch on 26 Oct 10
     
    It is not only about the finished product. The process of how students engaged in meeting a task is equally as important.
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http://www.dipity.com/ - 0 views

www.dipity.com timelines history images tools collaboration
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10
     
    "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."
  • Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10
     
    Collaborative way to create a digital timeline
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The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com - 0 views

www.nationalgeographic.com/...tl.html US history primary sources slavery history
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10
     
    Interactive site explores slavery and particulary the underground railroad
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Underground Railroad--History of Slavery, Pictures, Information - 0 views

www.nationalgeographic.com/...j1.html US history primary sources slavery history
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 25 Oct 10
     
    Wonderful interactive site that explores slavery and underground railroad. Links to many other resources.
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21st Century Information Fluency - 0 views

21cif.com/evaluate information literacy evaluation websites research
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 19 Oct 10
     
    Great site for evaluating websites.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 19 Oct 10
     
    This site is really helpful! This is a winner!
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a-teacher's guide-to-civics-education-on-the-web/ - 0 views

www.citizenship-aei.org/...to-civics-education-on-the-web social studies US history primary sources history resources presidents
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 11 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 11 Oct 10
     
    Links to many different history websites from presidential libraries to games to social studies blogs and so much more!
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Zinn Education Project - 0 views

www.zinnedproject.org social studies US history primary sources history resources
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 10 Oct 10
     
    "The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."
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March of Democracy - 1 views

www.mapsofwar.com/...march-of-democracy.html maps history democracy
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  • scott klepesch on 09 Oct 10
     
    Visual of how Democracy has spread throughout the world
  • Debra Gottsleben on 09 Oct 10
     
    This is a very interesting visual. Students could predict what they think will happen next in the post modern era.
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Resources for Teaching and Learning about World Explorers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...resources-world-explorers US history social studies resources explorers history space science biography
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 09 Oct 10
     
    There is so much here on explorers from the Vikings to Columbus to Lewis and Clark and more!
  • Debra Gottsleben on 09 Oct 10
     
    This site really has lots to explore and discover (no puns intended!)
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Using iPads in Social Studies - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...-ipads-to-teach-social-studies iPads social studies
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  • scott klepesch on 09 Oct 10
     
    Pilot program for the state of Virginia
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TypeWith.me: xgD4fHWhVn - 0 views

typewith.me/xgD4fHWhVn Type With Me collaboration
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  • scott klepesch on 09 Oct 10
     
    Real-time public document. Collaborate with peers
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Welcome to the Frontpage - 0 views

www.historyanimated.com/newhistoryanimated US history history animations interactive
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 05 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 05 Oct 10
     
    "If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."
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Teaching the Civil War with Technology - 0 views

blog.teachthecivilwar.com social studies US history primary sources civil war history technology
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 05 Oct 10
     
    Cite discusses ways to incorporate tech into lessons on Civil War.
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Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - Integrating New Literacies into the Teach... - 0 views

hickstro.org/...writing-beyond-expectations writing 21st Century
shared by scott klepesch on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • In this sense, we need to expect that students will write beyond themselves. By this, I do not mean that students will necessarily try to write more lengthy, complex pieces than what they are ready for, although that can sometimes present them with welcome challenges. Instead, what I suggest here is that students write beyond themselves first by focusing on external audiences and purposes and, second, by learning how to respond to others, especially through digital means.
  • First, I believe that students should write for external audiences
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      scott klepesch on 28 Sep 10
       
      Critical piece to foster amongst students
  • Cultivating a community of digital writers is a task that teachers need to take seriously, which leads to the second point. A digital writer needs to be both a writer and a responder. When trying to learn about their audience, students should take the opportunity to get to know them by reading what they have written and then engaging in response.
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  • In what ways can we think about our own writing practices — from emailing and texting, to writing letters and lesson plans — and how we use digital tools in a variety of ways to draft, revise, and publish our work?
  • scott klepesch on 28 Sep 10
     
    Writing Beyond Expectations
  • Debra Gottsleben on 04 Oct 10
     
    Scott I see diigo as one way of achieving this. It gets students to reflect on what others have written and they can respond to others. But there are other tools to do this as well. The conversations going on in Jen's AP class are amazing. Almost 150 conversations to date!
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We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes | Startl - 1 views

startl.org/...-we-are-empowering-superheroes redesign education
shared by scott klepesch on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • That’s not to say, we don’t value the work and the commitment of those who have been fighting the long battle. We do, tremendously. But we also believe that sometime an “outsider’s” perspective can help us see what we don’t see. Wasn’t it Henry Miller who said something like ‘One’s destination is a new way of looking at things.’
  • I believe we need to reframe the problem and the conversation, from one about re-forming schooling to one about re-thinking education and re-imagining learning.
  • scott klepesch on 04 Oct 10
     
    It is not reforming but about rethinking education as a way to make substantive change in our current system.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 04 Oct 10
     
    Great points. We need to get everyone in the social studies dept. linked in here. Many of them have signed up for diigo but didn't join this group.
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America: A Narrative History, 8e: W. W. Norton StudySpace - 1 views

www.wwnorton.com/...historytours.aspx google earth US history primary sources history maps
shared by Debra Gottsleben on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 29 Sep 10
     
    "US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources"
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Daniel Pink's Think Tank: Flip-thinking - the new buzz word sweeping the US - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...buzz-word-sweeping-the-US.html flip-thinking
shared by scott klepesch on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lectures at night, “homework” during the day. Call it the Fisch Flip. “When you do a standard lecture in class, and then the students go home to do the problems, some of them are lost. They spend a whole lot of time being frustrated and, even worse, doing it wrong,” Fisch told me.
  • Why not, Godin has proposed, put out the cheaper paperback – or even an e-book – first? Readers are more likely to gamble on an unknown author when they can risk £8 rather than £25.
  • scott klepesch on 28 Sep 10
     
    Innovation through Algebra
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