The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.
An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.
Click here to explore the water cycleExplore both the natural and urban water cycles with this interactive water cycle activity. See the natural process of water movement in the environment and examine the modern water use and reuse in urban and rural locations. Interactive tabs provide information that can be used to build learning about total water cycle management.
We believe that a child who graduates from high school without an understanding of culture, the arts, history, literature, civics, and language has in fact been left behind. So to improve education in America, we're promoting programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
The College now has a student subscription to this site. If you direct students to access it with the username Sheldon and the password College they can access it at home. Either that or you can use it in the classroom.
Uses Wikipedia articles to generate mind maps, maps, diagrams, etc to accompany the information. Of course no good for student research, but maybe useful for homework or a lesson activity.
Here is an example of a social network in education. I heard it recently called 'network learning.' Ning is the best platform I've found, although the adds can be annoying. (>)_(<)
The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.
THE best presentation creation tool I've ever seen. Once you get used to it you can create awesome presentations and the free access section gives you quite a bit of storage. You create them online and then download them as a package to play anywhere. Very cool!