"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."

An extensive list of "cool" web tools for education. Categories include: Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Teacher Resources

"Drool in the textbook. That's one of my most lasting impressions of high school. I can't tell you the number of times that I fell asleep -- face down in my textbook -- during various history and foreign language classes. And these days -- as a history teacher and as a foreign language teacher -- that's one of the memories I'd rather not impart to my students."

"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. "

"Now, the museum is offering high-tech help to lost explorers -- via its very own app for iPhones and other mobile devices. The app turns the phones -- and iPads or iPod Touch devices -- into a guide to the museum's twisty corridors. Don't have an iPhone? You can borrow an iPod Touch from the museum to use the app."

"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $2.97 (Consumer); $40 (Pro)."

"After two frustrating weeks of trying to get connected with a teacher who has used cell phones in the classroom, I finally spoke to Thomas Daccord, an educational technology specialist and author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers and The Best of History Web Sites. He was a "laptop teacher" who instructed in a wireless laptop environment for seven years."

Become an Explorer is a nine part series of tutorials, directions, and quizzes regarding Google Earth skills. It offers the basics of navigation and advanced features of Google Earth.

"News articles that considered other countries or individuals committing waterboarding were far more likely to classify waterboarding as torture than articles that dealt with the U.S. using waterboarding. In the NY Times, 85.8% of articles (28 of 33) that dealt with a country other than the U.S. using waterboarding against an individual called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture. Yet when the U.S. was the perpetrator, only 7.69% (16 of 208) articles said or implied that waterboarding was torture. Just 0.8% of the articles (1 of 133) dealing with the War on Terror where the U.S. was the perpetrator said or implied that waterboarding was torture. "

"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."

"An anthropology professor from South Africa has successfully used Google Earth to find a new human ancestor. To be exact, he found two partial skeletons, dating from between 1.78 and 1.95 million years ago, that belong to the species now known as Australopithecus sediba."

Webspiration is online mindmapping from the creators of Inspiration. Many of the same features as the for-purchase Inspiration and completely free. Includes plenty of templates and you can download mindmap as Inspiration or Word file. Key feature is collaborative editing; simply invite a colleague/student via email and you can collaborative form anywhere with an Internet connection. You can post mindmap on a web page, too.

Michael Jones presents "The New Meaning of Mapping" (in the age of GIS and interactive technologies). YouTube video.

"NewsTrust has created a set of teacher guides that will help you teach your students the difference between good and bad journalism. These guides include interactive lesson plans for college and high school classes in journalism, civics, social studies, communications and more."

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.

C-Span has uploaded virtually all of its video archives to the Internet. The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations.

GeoHive provides geopolitical data and statistics on the human population, particularly population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities.

"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."

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.