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Tom Daccord

Technology Literacy & GIS Mapping - 0 views

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    Technology Mapping With today's technology it has become easy to integrate the concepts of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as part of learning activities. Integrating GIS technologies to add exciting and interactive spatial elements into a variety of activities. Using tools such as Google Maps, librarians, teachers, and students can easily create interactive digital maps that relate spatially to books, stories, and other readings. Students can use Web 2.0 tools, such as EditGrid, to collaborate online in the development of interactive maps, which then can be used to reduce the transactional distance that distance learning students may feel when taking courses online.
Tom Daccord

Teaching History With Technology - 3 views

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    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.
Tom Daccord

Teachers Network: How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom - 2 views

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    "The Virtual Field Trip is a field trip that students and teachers take via the Internet. A great benefit of this activity is that it utilizes technology tools to help students visualize and understand subject matter through exploration and active learning. It's also a great way to "travel" without leaving your classroom! Look for sites with QuickTime VR, which allows you to view panoramic views of your virtual field trip location. Visit our recommended links, which may inspire you to create your own virtual field trip. You can also find thousands of Virtual Field Trips by doing a Google search online."
Tom Daccord

BBC - Hands on History - download family activity packs - 1 views

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    "Step back in time and discover what life was like in Norman times with the free Hands on History activity packs. Learn how to host your own Medieval feast, build your own castle and create your own Bayeux tapestry, and print off an 'I Spy' checklist for your Norman days out. "
Tom Daccord

Unique Notions: The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certifi... - 0 views

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    Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.
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    Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.
Tom Daccord

Best of History Web Sites - 0 views

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    Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.
Tom Daccord

Digital Storytelling - EdTechTeacher - 0 views

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    Digital Storytelling resources from EdTechTeacher Digital Storytelling workshop: discussion, activities, sources, comments, and more
Tom Daccord

Social Studies: Reading - 0 views

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    D.C. Everest Social Studies Department actively promotes reading by teaching content reading strategies, using historical fiction and non-fiction in the classroom, and teaching historical research skills. Included are helpful Social Studies Reading links.
Tom Daccord

New online tool helps teachers use primary-source documents | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 4 views

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

Welcome to PrimaryAccess - 5 views

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    "PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."
Tom Daccord

ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award - 3 views

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    These free, Web-based "Top 25" sites selected by the Association of School Librarians are chosen for their innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are user friendly and community minded.
Tom Daccord

Science and Technology of WWII - 0 views

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    The National World War II Memorial has 8000 objects directly related to science and technology. Their impressive exhibit contains an animated timeline, activities (such as sending encrypted messages), expert audio responses to science and technology questions, lesson plans, a quiz, introductory essays, and more.
Patrick Higgins

Genocide Studies Program | Yale University - 0 views

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    Great resources from Yale University.
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