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

"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)."

"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."

New technology could be end to the guidebook: Tourists will be able to call up images and video footage of landmark attractions in their heyday - seen from the spot on which they are standing.

New technology could be end to the guidebook: Tourists will be able to call up images and video footage on their phone of landmark attractions in their heyday - seen from the spot on which they are standing.

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.

More free documentaries and films for streaming.

Create your own biography timeline and map, add your ancestors and view them on a historical map. Interactive Maps, Timelines, Videos, Geocoded Photos, and Museum Artifacts await you on WorldHistory.com

New game-based high-school history course Posted by: Don Tapscott on 05Jun 2009 For a couple of decades I've been advocating a new model of pedagogy that involves technology. For example, I just published a piece in the Edge on the Demise of the University. The purpose of introducing technology into schools isn't to simply digitize existing processes and leave the basic broadcast teaching model unchanged. Instead, technology opens the door to new techniques that focus on the student and allow students to proceed at their own pace. In this spirit, imagine students studying American history with the same concentration and enthusiasm they display when playing their favourite video games. After all, 97 percent of high school students are avid gamers. That's the goal of Conspiracy Code, an online game based course released this week by Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and 360Ed, Inc. an education game development company.

All excellent sources of documentary films and images.

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.

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

"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."

"David Brancaccio gives an impassioned plea for teachers to go beyond the text book approach to teaching economics in an effort to meet real world challenges and build a economic foundation for the next generation." [Video 2 mins. 49 secs.]

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

Why aren't we doing more of this?

This website connects stories in Philadelphia's neighborhoods interactively via maps through personal accounts, videos and photographs.

Check out this list of Annenberg Video resources.

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