Register to attend one of these free PD sessions at the Library of Congress in DC. Topics focus on teaching the early Americas, focusing on pre- and immediately post-European contact.
Short piece on the Dallas Chaos II artwork we used today. Also includes Dallas Chaos I, in which Dean presents a version of the JFK assassination (too graphic for my 4/5 classroom).
Reddit is one of the old sites on the internet, where people form communities around focused interests. This community deals with maps. You can even post requests (I'm looking for a map that shows the most popular fast food restaurants in the US...).
A collaborative, statewide digitization program to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of the historical and cultural documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions.
Information and examples of "class sourcing" - letting students collaborate on creating digital products such as websites, Pinterest boards, or any of the tech tools we reviewed.
Since the 1970s Camilo Vergara has been traveling across the United States photographing and thus documenting hand-painted murals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they appeared on the walls of establishments such as car repair shops, barbershops, and fast food restaurants in city streets and alley ways.
