Social Studies Chat - 0 views
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scott klepesch on 23 May 11Social Studies Ning
This makes a lot of sense to me — textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
Six Reasons Why Textbooks Should Stop Being Textbooks : 2¢ Worth - 0 views
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Can’t teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
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ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
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"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. "
Civic Mirror | turns classrooms into countries, students into citizens, and teachers in... - 0 views
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"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!
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Teacher showing The Civic Mirror http://bit.ly/hwZ8Vg Kids can create their own nations. Cool. #plpnetwork
Egypt: After The Revolution on Vimeo - 0 views
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Documentary on Egypt after the revolution. Interviews and commentary
The Food Price Rollercoaster | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hun... - 0 views
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"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"
SearchTeam - real-time collaborative search engine - 0 views
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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.
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Really interesting collaborative search site.
Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free - 0 views
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"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.
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convert any type of file. This could be very handy at times.
Apps in Education: Killer Presentation Tool for iPad - 0 views
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Blog reviewing use of iPads in the classroom
Eye Witness to History - 0 views
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"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."
newspaper map | all online newspapers in the world, translate with one click - 0 views
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interactive map of newspapers around the world with translation feature!
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Easy way to find news around the world
newspaper map | all online newspapers in the world, translate with one click - 0 views
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Find a newspaper by clicking on location on the map. Can also sort by language. Great resource for World Language and Social Studies classes.
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Find and translate newspapers
A New Nation Votes - 0 views
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"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."
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check out election returns from 1787 to 1825. Searchable by year, candidate, office or state
iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » The Secret Annex - 0 views
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"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."
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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.
National Jukebox LOC.gov - 0 views
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"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."
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easy way to find music from different eras
TeachPaperless: Digital Literacy Objectives: A Starting Point - 0 views
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Teaching digital literacy using Wikipedia and the death of Osama Bin Laden
Yad Vashem Photo Archive - 0 views
How Should Students Use Cell Phones In School? - Edudemic - 0 views
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Sone interesting ideas for using cell phones in the classroom.
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Interesting ways to use cell phones the classroom
Mission US | THIRTEEN - 0 views
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games for learning US history
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looks like a fun site
For Teachers from Library of Congress - 0 views
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Link to Library of Congress site for teachers. Lots of resources including primary sources
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Check out all of these great primary sources from LoC
quietube - 0 views
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To watch web videos without comments this site allows you to take youtube videos and take out any of the distracting comments.
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Great tool to make sure you're only showing what you want to show!
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