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The case of the Orlando Project offers a useful interrogation of concepts like completion and finality, as they emerge in the arena of electronic publication. The idea of "doneness" circulates discursively within a complex and evolving scholarly ecology where new modes of digital publication are changing our conceptions of textuality, at the same time that models of publication, funding, and archiving are rapidly changing. Within this ecology, it is instrumental and indeed valuable to consider particular tasks and stages done, even as the capacities of digital media push against a sense of finality. However, careful interrogation of aims and ends is required to think through the relation of a digital project to completion, whether modular, provisional, or of the project as a whole.

Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, up to 4 pens can be used. It also works great with rear-projected displays.

EdTechTeacher.org presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for histlaptop classory and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, ipods, and online social networks and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Find out how others are using technology in the classroom.

Students Can Get Work Done in Groups For project learning to be most effective, students must understand how to work together.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

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.

This is what the ancient to contemporary peoples would have created if facebook had existed back in the day, and if large groups of people ever got together to create online pages. This was a project, but is now a tool. We the AP World History students and teacher of Burlington High School invite history dorks everywhere to see the connections, explore the relationships, and enjoy the patterns that exist in history.

Will Farren's very interesting project whereby students can lead him to travel to new places and interact with various people.

George Mason University's project for the teaching of American History. Some wonderful resources and live conversations with historians, I think.

Global collaboration projection between U.S. and Middle East classrooms centering on Middle East conflict and peace initiatives

"The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 200 organizations from across Maine."

fully prepared lesson plans on Hinduism and Buddhism for high school teachers ; religions can be taught individually or comparatively

National Archives Experience! Create a poster or movie using the digital vaults.