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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Simon Miles

Simon Miles

Commerce Quiz - 1 views

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    Commerce Quiz is an interactive tool designed to test students financial literacy skills
Simon Miles

The ancient past - Narrabeen Man | AC History Units - 0 views

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    "This unit presents a learning sequence for a topic, the mystery of Narrabeen Man, which is a case study for investigating the nature of the sources for ancient Australia and what they reveal about Australia's past."
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All French Revolution Documents - 0 views

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    French Revolution primary sources
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The French Revolution's reign of terror - 1 views

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    "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution. On Monday September 10th 1792 The Times of London carried a story covering events in revolutionary France: "The streets of Paris, strewed with the carcases of the mangled victims, are become so familiar to the sight, that they are passed by and trod on without any particular notice. The mob think no more of killing a fellow-creature, who is not even an object of suspicion, than wanton boys would of killing a cat or a dog". These were the infamous September Massacres when Parisian mobs killed thousands of suspected royalists and set the scene for the events to come, when Madame La Guillotine took centre stage and The Terror ruled in France. But how did the French Revolution descend into such extremes of violence? Who or what drove The Terror? And was it really an aberration of the revolutionary cause or the moment when it truly expressed itself? With Mike Broers, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall; Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London; Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge."
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Overview : Artful Thinking - 0 views

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    "The goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning - in the arts, and across school subjects. The program is one of several programs at Project Zero linked by the theme "Visible Thinking." Artful Thinking has 6 interrelated components: The Artful thinking Palette (6 thinking dispositions at the heart of the program); thinking routines, works of art, curricular connections, visible thinking, and teacher study groups. Artful Thinking is a program that was developed by Harvard Project Zero in collaboration with the Traverse City, Michigan Area Public Schools (TCAPS). The program was one component of a larger TCAPS grant from the US Department of Education that aimed at developing a model approach for integrating art into regular classroom instruction. The purpose of the Artful Thinking Program is to help teachers regularly use works of visual art and music in their curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and learning. The Artful Thinking program is designed to be used by the regular classroom teacher. While it originally targeted grades K-12, the Artful Thinking approach is also currently used in post-secondary education and in museums. The program focuses on experiencing and appreciating art, rather than making art. It has two broad goals: (1) To help teachers create rich connections between works of art and curricular topics; and (2) to help teachers use art as a force for developing students' thinking dispositions."
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Home - Reason in Revolt - 0 views

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    Reason in Revolt project aims to bring together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. As it grows and develops, the project website will become an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.
Simon Miles

Persons Of Interest - 1 views

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    Website of 'Persons of Interest' doco.
Simon Miles

Teaching resources for Secondary schools | MoneySmart by ASIC - 0 views

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    MoneySmart Teaching offers quality resources for secondary teachers that are aligned to the Australian curriculum. Our units of work and teacher guides give educators lesson plans that they can take directly into the classroom. Our digital activities help students to learn real life skills like mobile phone security and buying your first car.
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The Cold War - California History-Social Science Project - 0 views

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    "The CHSSP is proud to introduce our second Blueprint Unit: The Cold War, funded through the generous support of the Library of Congress, History Channel, and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.  Drawing on new historical scholarship about the global context of the Cold War, the unit is framed around the investigation question: Why and how was the Cold War fought?"
Simon Miles

BBC - KS3 History - The Civil Rights Movement in America - Revision 1 - 0 views

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    "Slavery was officially outlawed in America in 1865 but this was far from the end of it. It would take many years and a great struggle to see black Americans treated in the same way as white Americans."
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60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education resources | PBS NewsHour Extra - 0 views

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    "May 17, 2014 will mark the 60th anniversary of the monumental Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the status quo of "separate but equal" to be unconstitutional. Although this meant public schools were now required to be integrated, the battleground for equality in education was just beginning. Use the resources below to provide students with the historical context of Brown v. Board of Education in the civil rights movement, to inform them of the important roles students played in integrating the schools and engage them in conversation about the unfinished work of the civil rights movement."
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Historical Thinker - 0 views

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    "Historical Thinker is a group dedicated to promoting the teaching of historical logic and skills.  Chief among our goals is to provide resources that make writing sophisticated research papers in history easier.  We are working on the development of a comprehensive student workbook that details the process of writing a research paper from start to finish.  Students complete detailed  templates for each step in the process.  On the left, you will find downloadable samples of these templates along with teaching guides that will give you a sense of what the workbook will elaborate on.  "
Simon Miles

The Research Paper: Developing Historical Questions | Teachinghistory.org - 0 views

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    "A way to teach students how to develop historical questions. This is the beginning of a multi-step research paper process that encourages sophisticated historical thinking."
Simon Miles

Timeline - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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    RWT Timline is available as a web app (Flash required), as an Android app, and as an iPad app. All three versions make it easy for students to create timelines for any series of events. To create a timeline with RWT Timeline students first tap or click along a blank line to add an event. Events can include dates in any format. Each event has room for a brief description and an image. Longer descriptions can be written but they won't appear on the timeline, they'll only appear in the printed notes about the timeline. Students can drag and drop events on their timelines to create appropriate spacing between each event.
Simon Miles

The Best Tools For Creating Fake "Stuff" For Learning | Larry Ferlazzo's Webs... - 1 views

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    "The fake "stuff" I'm referring to in the headline includes newspaper articles, sports "trading cards," iPhone conversations, Facebook pages etc. These can be used for conversation practice, to create reports on historical figures (or on natural disasters or on just about anything) and for numerous other learning activities. Here are my choices for The Best Tools For Creating Fake "Stuff" For Learning:"
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Spatial History Project - 0 views

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    Stanford University's Spatial History Project is a community that combines humanities research with "spatial, textual and visual analysis." On their about page, they explain that as scholars, they realize the significance and importance of displaying information within a spatial context. Too often, history is presented chronologically but a visual can provide learners with valuable context to help them make connections to a broader context.
Simon Miles

Image Authentication and Forensics | Fourandsix Technologies - Photo Tampering througho... - 0 views

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    "Though photo manipulation has become more common in the age of digital cameras and image editing software, it actually dates back almost as far as the invention of photography. Gathered below is an overview of some of the more notable instances of photo manipulation in history. For recent years, an exhaustive inventory of every photo manipulation would be nearly impossible, so we focus here on the instances that have been most controversial or notorious, or ones that raise the most interesting ethical questions."
Simon Miles

HAVE YOU GOT THAT RIGHT? - 1 views

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    Have You Got That Right? is an innovative series of videos answering important human rights questions quickly, clearly and in a way that won't put you to sleep.
Simon Miles

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web - 0 views

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    "This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians-teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts-who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively"
Simon Miles

Digital History _ Promises and Perils of Digital History.pdf - 0 views

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    This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians-teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts-who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.
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