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Google For Educators - 0 views

www.google.com/...elections_tools.html

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08

Google's collection of election tools for your classroom. Good stuff here for visual learners

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Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08

Great political/election coverage through google.

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2008 Election ProCon.org -- Which candidate would make the best U.S. President? - 0 views

www.2008electionprocon.org

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08

great resource.

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Patrick Higgins on 22 Aug 08

Pro-con's page about the election this year. Straightforward.

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FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

Lots of great data to expose our students to here. Let them go nuts with the graphs and write their explanation and rationalie.

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Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

I like this one for its simple use of polling data to make projections. As John Becker said, they take a baseball stats approach to the election.

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infochimps.org: Map of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 01 Nov 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 01 Nov 08

get students looking at which newspapers are endorsing which candidates.

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Pageflakes - Plug's Election 2008 - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 03 Oct 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 03 Oct 08

Here is a great resource for the election.

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Free Technology for Teachers: US Election Process Explained By Common Craft - 0 views

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2008 common craft election teachers video

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Students find the presidential race is not politics as usual - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...06-02-election-education_N.htm

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 05 Jun 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 05 Jun 08

How can we incorporate the election?

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TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text - 0 views

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election tagcloud tagging visualization

shared by Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

Totally ripping off John Becker's latest post for ideas here, but imagine using tag clouds to show meaning in public speeches this election season.

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Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

There is some value in this one. See me and I'll explain.

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iCue > Welcome - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 21 May 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 21 May 08

Great site to help students understand the election process. Requires a subscription, but the gaming aspect of it makes it fun.

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National Student/Parent Mock Election - 0 views

www.nationalmockelection.org

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shared by Erica Hartman on 13 Sep 08 - Cached

Erica Hartman on 13 Sep 08

we should get the pto involved and do this at the middle school

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NPR: Palin, Biden As Visual Poets - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 08 Oct 08 - Cached

Erica Hartman on 08 Oct 08

election pain and biden speeches

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2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College - 0 views

www.270towin.com/

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 05 Jun 08 - Cached

K-12 Government/Election Teaching Materials - Group | Diigo - 0 views

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Writing Our Future: Letters to the Next President - 0 views

www.letters2president.org

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 31 Oct 08 - No Cached

Patrick Higgins on 31 Oct 08

Erica's students wrote letters to the future president for the National Writing Project and this is the result. Great stuff Erica.

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Generation WE: The Movement Begins... on Vimeo - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 08 Nov 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 08 Nov 08

The Gen We video. intrigueing stuff. I wonder what the reaction would be if we showed this to high school teachers? Would they see the same ideasl in their students?

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Songs for Campaign Seasons Past and Present - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 04 Oct 08 - Cached

Writing Our Future - National Writing Project - 0 views

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shared by Erica Hartman on 09 Aug 08 - Cached

Erica Hartman on 09 Aug 08

write a letter to the future prseident

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Get Local! | OpenSecrets - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 03 Aug 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 03 Aug 08

Campaign contributions by local area. Great stuff to see who is promoting whom for president.

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Patrick Higgins on 03 Aug 08

How great is this for understanding who is contributing to the campaigns?

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USA Service - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 07 Jan 09 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 07 Jan 09

Obama announces the launch of usaservice.org and commits to renewed community involvement on the part of citizens.

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C-SPAN Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 06 May 08 - Cached

Patrick Higgins on 06 May 08

excellent source of student-ready news to base research or discussion off of.

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