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Rhondda Powling

Historical Inquiry: 20+ Creative Ways History Teachers Can use Primary Sources @coolcat... - 0 views

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    "Historical inquiry helps make history class exciting. History teachers can use primary sources in creative, exciting ways to make history come alive. Many people in history might be dead, but your teaching doesn't have to be. Let's dive in. What is historical inquiry? How can it be used to teach history? How can you use technology, creativity, and exciting projects to teach history? The post explains how."
Camilla Elliott

Australian Curriculum History Units | HTAA - 0 views

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    "AC History Units presents 8 units developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia to support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: History "
Rhondda Powling

4 Strategies to Bring History to Life For Students | Getting Smart - 0 views

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    "You can tansform students from passive to active learners through the power of archives. Timelines, textbooks, PowerPoint presentations and even Wikipedia articles have a role in learning about the past, but it is time to open the archives and unleash the power of primary sources to bring history to life. " 4 strategies for educators explained.
Camilla Elliott

WhatWasThere - Put history in its place! - 0 views

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    Add your photos from any time period to the map to build up a history of the location.
Camilla Elliott

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra - Home - 0 views

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    Australian history portraits
Camilla Elliott

Library War Service slides collection now online and browsable | American Library Assoc... - 0 views

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    While the battles, uniforms, and weapons that made up a World War I serviceman's life are very well documented in the history books, the day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life doesn't often get as much attention. The ALA Archives has recently migrated our collection of digitized lantern slides from World War I into the CONTENTdm system, which shows one way these men filled their downtime: reading.
Rhondda Powling

Reading Australia - Home - 0 views

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    Reading Australia has been developed by the Copyright Agency and aims to make significant Australian literary works more readily available for teaching in schools and universities. These works are supplemented with online teacher resources and essays by popular authors about the enduring relevance of the works. There is a list of titles (download as a PDF). These titles have been selected by the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) Council. They were asked to select works they thought students and others should encounter, to give a view of Australia's rich cultural identity: works that would tell Australia's history and also how we are currently developing as a nation. The ASA Council are adamant that this list should be merely the beginning, and it should be built upon with other works that have already been published, as well as the great new works that continue to be published in Australia. There is a wide range of teacher resources available (PDF) for Primary and Secondary school teachers and all of these teacher resources include classroom activities, assessments and links to the Australian Curriculum. In addition, many of the Secondary resources include an introductory essay on the text written by high profile writers. The Primary level resources have been commissioned by the Primary English Teaching Association of Australia and the Australian Literacy Educators' Association, and the resources for Secondary level have been jointly commissioned by the Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the English Teachers Association NSW."
Rhondda Powling

Exploring The World's Greatest Libraries (PHOTOS) | James W. P. Campbell - 0 views

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    Article written by James W. P. Campbell. He has travelled the world together with Will Pryce the architectural photographer, visiting and photographing 85 of the world's greatest libraries in 21 countries. He now has written a book The Library: A World History (Chicago University Press), which he claims is the most complete account of library buildings to date.
Rhondda Powling

When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views

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    How to teach text structures for better reading comprehension and improved retention. Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of content. But how should they do that? What are the most effective ways to help students learn to read challenging content-area texts? This article breaks down the research behind explicit teaching of text structures and includes a video that shows how to do it (Great for content-area literacy)
Rhondda Powling

Literature (Crash course) - YouTube - 0 views

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    The Crash Course videos are created by great YouTube advocates, John and Hank Green. They are intended as an overview of different subjects, from literature and history to chemistry, biology, and psychology.
Rhondda Powling

Get started - Early Australian census records - Research Guides at State Library of Vic... - 0 views

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    "This SLV guide explains how to find and use information collected in censuses from 1788 to 1901. It also includes information about the history of censuses in Australia. A census counts and describes the population of a particular area. Census data is useful for researching places & people's lives over time, or at a point in time. Sometimes information about individuals is available too. The earliest systematic collection of information about Australia's residents occurred in 1788. The colonies and states regularly collected data in musters or censuses, up until the first Australian (national) census in 1911."
Camilla Elliott

Inquiry skills across the Australian Curriculum | inquiry learning & information literacy - 0 views

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    This post presents Dr Many Lupton's analysis of the Australian Curriculum v6.0. Inquiry skills and information literacy are embedded in the Australian Curriculum in the subject areas Science, History, Geography, Economics and Business (draft), Civics and Citizenship (draft, and in the general capabilities Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) .
Rhondda Powling

Aboriginal Knowledge and IP Protocol Community Guide booklet - 0 views

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    This is a useful resource when incorporating the Australian curriculum Priority - understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
Rhondda Powling

Technology Makes Reading Better. Here's Exactly How. - 0 views

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    "Most teachers know what close-reading is. The part that I found most interesting the seemingly alien idea of technology promoting patient reading. Apps, for example-how on earth can a tablet or an app or an iPad or headphones or some other gadget help with the focus, patience, curiosity, and will to sit with a text and make sense of it? It seems like the opposite would be more likely. And that's certainly possible. There is no "truth" here. In one setting with one student in one kind of classroom, technology could overwhelm the fragile interaction between reader and text. In others, it could catalyze the reading process like never before. But that's a matter of design. Of strategy. Of context. At one point, books were considered "technology" during a move from oral storytelling to written record. The same with certain kinds of binding, the printing press, and so on. Throughout history, reading has been altered by technology."
Rhondda Powling

Never trust a corporation to do a library's job - The Message - Medium - 0 views

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    "It's about preserving our digital history, which as we know now, is as easy to delete as 15 years of GeoCities.We can't expect for-profit corporations to care about the past, but we can support the independent, nonprofit organizations that do."
Rhondda Powling

World War One - The British Library - 0 views

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    "Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe, this resource examines key themes in the history of World War One. Explore a wealth of original source material, over 50 newly-commissioned articles written by historians, teachers' notes and more to discover how war affected people on different sides of the conflict. Collection items featured on this site have been contributed by Europeana 1914-1918 institutions."
Rhondda Powling

10 Podcasts That Promote Reading - The Tech Edvocate - 0 views

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    "These iPod-based audio broadcasts encompass a wide variety of subjects, such as entrepreneurship, politics, history, to entertaining series on serial killers. These downloadable series can be subscribed to, so you automatically get the next installment. However, podcasts can be utilized in the classroom, especially to promote literacy. By using podcasts in conjunction with their transcripts, or by finding engaging podcasts that discuss books benefit students' different learning styles. Podcasts bring together reading, writing, analysis, listening, language and many other ELA Common Core Standards (source). Here is a list of 10 podcasts that promote reading."
Rhondda Powling

NYPL Digital Collections - 0 views

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    You can explore historical pictures and documents that have been digitized from the NYPL's collection. They are in the Public domain. You only need to click on the picture to access its page. You can download links on the right, The citation details are on the left, under the picture.
Rhondda Powling

ConSource: The Constitutional Sources Project - 0 views

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    This site offers a comprehensive, easily searchable, fully-indexed, and freely accessible digital library of historical sources related to the creation, ratification, and amendment of the United States Constitution.
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