So you want to study history?! OK, here's how! Writing, Research, Resources, Links, etc.

So you want to study history?! OK, here's how! Writing, Research, Resources, Links, etc.

7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave -- PDF Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called "waves," which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space.

7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave

Wikis in the Classroom - overview, examples, how-to

Wikis in the Classroom - overview, examples, how-to

Classical Antiquity - extended list of links to Classical online resources.

Classical Antiquity - extended list of links to Classical online resources.

Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

"A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently three tools: * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide * PowerPoint Twitter voting You can download a PowerPoint presentation containing the tools and instructions at the bottom of this page. Please note that these are prototypes that you use at your own risk."

"A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently three tools: * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide * PowerPoint Twitter voting You can download a PowerPoint presentation containing the tools and instructions at the bottom of this page. Please note that these are prototypes that you use at your own risk."

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.

Extensive list of link to websites on Archaeology and the Study of Early Humans from a school library in British Columbia.

Extensive list of link to websites on Archaeology and the Study of Early Humans from a school library in British Columbia.

Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures Lesson plan based on cave art at Lascaux, Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, and Cosquer caves.

Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures

"The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor."

"The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor."

The US government has numerous websites relevant to foreign and security policy. A list of the most useful. . .

A compilation of free Educational Video Clips/Mini Movies on multiple topics. A collaboration between Don Donn and Philip Martin.

September 11 Remembered by Twitter - slide presentation on Slideshare

Via via activehistory.co.uk, this taxonomy of Socratic questions is not a hierarchy but rather categories build upon each other and do not necessarily follow a pattern or design. The role of the educator is to keep the inquiry "on track," but, also, to allow the students to follow a path of their own design.

Create your own newspaper with MeeHive. List the topics and issues you're passionate about, and MeeHive will scour thousands of news outlets and blogs to find stories about your interests. You can share articles with others, see what friends read, and even use your iPhone to get MeeHive on-the-go.

Lectures are the best way to get information from a teacher's notebook to a student's notebook without touching the student's mind, according to G. Leonard.

Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National?

The GOP-controlled State Board of Education is working on a new set of statewide textbook standards for, among other subjects, U.S. History Studies Since Reconstruction. Approved textbooks, the draft standards say, must teach the Texan student to "identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority." No analogous liberal figures or groups are required

"A broad group of professors and civil rights leaders said that the important social benefits of the settlement - which would allow Google to make millions of out-of-print books accessible online - are getting lost in the discussion of the settlement, which has drawn a fierce group of critics hoping to block a federal court from approving it."

As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change.

As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change

This list by Larry Ferlazzo highlights accessible sites for English Language Learners.