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Primary source documents

Primary Source Material

great primary source docs, interactive docs and photos

Interrogate internet sources

A different version of easywhois.net

Future of the newspaper looks grim.

This is an article I have been waiting for. Interesting to start to see the future of news. Yet, I still wonder how many people are getting their news from sources other than print or TV.

Great stat if you are looking to start a discussion on poverty in the U.S. I don't know the source behind the data yet, but I am trying.

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

This might be the greatest link to pop onto my radar in a while. Primary source material centered around historical events in the form of eyewitness accounts, trial transcripts, etc. The possibilities here are endless. Where was this when I was in the classroom?

Where has this one been? Digitized primary sources and lesson plan archive for teachers.

We are always on the hunt for ways to find intelligent and informed sources of video to show to our students. This list from Open Culture is an incredible list of "smart" videos found on the web.

Primary sources for history and writing.

If you are looking for primary source material to draw from for connections to ancient civilizations, here are some great ones.

How great is this? Techmeme for politics! Plus, if you install the Greasemonkey script, it highlights conservative v. liberal articles.

Anyone looking for bias in the media, try this great political source.

News word aggregator taking rss feeds from popular news sources and visualizing the most popular words

Most popular words in news stories.

Really, really dig this stuff.

What do you think of this?

Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.

Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!