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graphic depicts greatest bankruptcies in history

"And I just replied to Monika with this - which I hope some of you, again, will chime in on to show me the error of my ways: I'll start with saying I'm still uncomfortable with the opportunity cost notion. As a history teacher - which to me means "preparation for informed citizenship" teacher - I'm not sure I want to sacrifice time that could be used learning and drawing conclusions from human history on the altar of failed web 2.0 experimentation. I see the value of both, though. I'm thinking a separate course - a sort of "Intro to Web 2.0″ - might be more useful than teachers across the curriculum failing and flailing about with the tools when their primary job is teaching content. And I'm still traditional in thinking content is more important. Without it, we risk churning out what I've recently been calling, in my internal monologues, "barbarians with laptops."

Playing history aggregates info re games on the Web in a searchable database to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 131 shared games.

The Meteoric Rise of Nathaniel Greene

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

Tom Daccord - classroom wiki for U.S. History survey course 2006-2007

What do our textbooks omit? A sort of homage to James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me."

Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

Some general comments on the "Twitter Experiment" by Monica Rankin (UT Dallas) There has been a lot of interest in the "Twitter Experiment" video posted by Kim Smith chronicling my U.S. History class at U.T. Dallas and our use of twitter in the classroom. I have fielded a number of inquiries from educators across the United States and even overseas who are interested in finding ways to use social networking in an educational setting. This write-up is intended as an informal summary of my use of twitter in the classroom. I hope it will help to clarify my experience and I welcome additional questions and commentary, particularly suggestions for how to improve this type of classroom interaction.

Excellent source for anyone teaching 20th Century American History.

"Using DocsTeach, educators can create interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials from the National Archives"

"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries."

Facing History interviews Justin Reich of EdTechTeacher and Harvard Graduate School of Education on role of technology in the classroom.

Virtual Tours through some of the ancient world's marvels.

Timeline period: 1000-1500 CE -Conquests -in China -Key Figures -Nomadic Life

A fascinating project designed by history teachers to use Augmented Reality to make the past come alive. Help spread the word to make this a reality.

"An irreverent, surprising, and fresh approach to teaching social history to secondary schoolers, American Dynasties is an immersive digital video game where players live the lives of Americans from eras past."

I thought I would comment on how I use Twitter as a teacher. I don't Twitter with students but the podcast discusses how I use the application as an educator

Great list of flowcharts that cover a broad range of topics.