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Patrick Higgins

Google For Educators - 0 views

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    Google's collection of election tools for your classroom. Good stuff here for visual learners
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    Great political/election coverage through google.
Patrick Higgins

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

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    great resource.
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    Pro-con's page about the election this year. Straightforward.
Patrick Higgins

FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right - 0 views

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    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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    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.
Patrick Higgins

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

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    get students looking at which newspapers are endorsing which candidates.
Patrick Higgins

Pageflakes - Plug's Election 2008 - 0 views

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    Here is a great resource for the election.
Patrick Higgins

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

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    How can we incorporate the election?
Patrick Higgins

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

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

iCue > Welcome - 0 views

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

National Student/Parent Mock Election - 0 views

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

NPR: Palin, Biden As Visual Poets - 0 views

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    election pain and biden speeches
Patrick Higgins

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

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

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

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    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?
Erica Hartman

Writing Our Future - National Writing Project - 0 views

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    write a letter to the future prseident
Patrick Higgins

Get Local! | OpenSecrets - 0 views

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    Campaign contributions by local area. Great stuff to see who is promoting whom for president.
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    How great is this for understanding who is contributing to the campaigns?
Patrick Higgins

USA Service - 0 views

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

C-SPAN Classroom - 0 views

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