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Crowdsourcing is key to making history accessible, approachable

U.S. topographic map site.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics to reverse a decline in civic knowledge and help kids better understand and respect the U.S. government. Sixteen games cover core topics like citizenship, rights, the court system, governance, freedom of speech, and constitutional law. You can sort by topic or time needed for gameplay.

We give you a blank wall. You put anything you want on it, anywhere. Simple, yet powerful.

Branches of Power lets you play all three branches of government, collectively charged with a critical goal: to build new laws! iCivics

Blog from your email.

a site for Collections and information on an event.  Can be connected to facebook or paypal.

Coordinating teachers and administrators on evolving technolgy

This is a site that I created to try to spur on more people. The complaints that i got were another site to log into and there was no way to post a message to all participants or send out reminders so they would forget.

The Tech4Learning team is constantly amazed, inspired, and awed by the work students and teachers are doing with our tools, and we hope you will use this space to connect with colleagues and celebrate the work you are doing! Learn more about Tech4Learning.

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Are you guys ready to get active? Or better yet, Interactive? Well now is the time!

This could be appropriate for older students. Fighting figures not always a positive thing.

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

Thank you for using LinkedIn! You have joined over 45 million professionals using LinkedIn to stay connected and reach new people through trusted referrals. Think of facebook with out the extra frills. Just ways to stay connected with professional people

xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.

Think of YouTube with the ability to comment with text right in the middle of the video. Could be a static or simpler voicethread. Quite nice.

Discrimination video from Jennie Oaks 6th Grade Class.  Student made.  Very good.

Live is Better Whether it's Live Blogging, hosting a weekly Question & Answer session or simply reporting on Breaking News, all readers agree: Live is Better. CoveritLive is already being used by thousands of bloggers and large media companies to engage millions of readers each month. Reviewers and some of the largest sites of the web agree no other software delivers ease of use, scale and reliability like CoveritLive.

Facebook for schools.