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Alan Edwards

Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - 1 views

    • Alan Edwards
       
      The online map room is maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, and it is frequently updated with new scans and additions from the library. The folks at the library can be contacted by computer or telephone.
    • Alan Edwards
       
      The site has a plethora of maps, but I think their modern political maps/historical maps are most helpful. For teachers, this is a great resource to help students understand and analyze history.
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      The library's online map collection is also searchable-although the search engine is pretty basic
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    • Alan Edwards
       
      There's also a great selection of OTHER map websites, including a huge selection of historical maps or maps about history
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    The Perry-Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas-Austin has a great selection of online maps. They have modern political maps, historical maps, maps about history, regional maps, thematic maps (population, climate, energy, ethnic, religious). Many of the maps have large PDF formats that are of great quality and detail.
Sarah Franquemont

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 1 views

    • Sarah Franquemont
       
      Clicking the library link at the bottom of the page lists links to maps and other multi-media tools on other sites like BBC.
    • Sarah Franquemont
       
      The animated maps on the site like "March of Democracy" and "Imperial History of the Middle East" cover an extremely wide range of content in only about ninety seconds.  Students might not find these maps useful until they already have a grasp on content.
    • Sarah Franquemont
       
      Clicking the "Download" leads to downloadable powerpoint slides and presentations that already have maps embedded in them.
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    This site provides animated maps that show the spread of religion, imperialism, democracy, etc. over time.  The site also includes links to a variety of other animated maps on sites like BBC that cover a wide range of subjects.  These animated maps provide visual context for lessons and units, and can be used as visual access points for content.
Nate Merrill

Worldology - 1 views

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    Worldology.com was conceived with the objective of making history and geopolitics (the relationship and dynamic between geography and politics) more easily digestible and understandable. As one who has long been interested in this topic, I have been intrigued by the possibility of more imaginative ways to bring this field of understanding to life. This led to the idea of graphical and interactive maps to enable myself and others to more acutely visualize the evolution of nations and cultures. As the creator of Worldology.com, I have found that maps have been very useful in simplifying and deepening my understanding of historical events, along with long-standing and on-going dynamics between various nations. However, most published content about important events throughout history are not accompanied by an event-specific map. With this in mind, I envisioned an application that provided an event-specific map for key developments throughout history, along with an expanded geographical view, in order to comprehend the region-wide context. For interactivity, mouseovers were imbedded so the visitor could access more detailed information of key events, along with added graphics for further illumination. Then, you can toggle back and forth between time frames, to gain a feel of the evolution of the geopolitical landscape over time. For example, in the Europe History Interactive Map, you can click back and forth through major time periods, gaining an overview of how tribes, kingdoms, empires and nation-states fluctuated throughout time. During the Middle Ages for instance, you can simultaneously see how the Frankish Empire (Western/Central Europe), Byzantine Empire (Greece) and Rus Principalities (Russia) evolved concurrently with one another. Then, you can mouseover the information buttons to learn more. You can even switch to the "Show Borders" view in order to see modern European borders overlayed upon long-ago political entities. I hope to eventually cover the entire
kyleassad

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 1 views

    • kyleassad
       
      Data is sourced from the United Nations: the UNDP, Conference on Trade and Development Trade Tables, and Angus Maddison's World Economy: Historical Statistics.  At first glance, the data from which the maps are created is credible because it is from the UN with the exception of the maps sources from Angus Maddison.  The website is also a product of Sheffield University in the United Kingdom, which lends credibility.
    • kyleassad
       
      The maps are divided into categories, and provide a great visual aid when talking about how different countries, regions, and continents utilize resources, have different birth and death rates, and other factors based on geography that can help to be visualized.
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      This website is very credible, especially based on the standards from the UC Berkeley website.  They cite their sources on their "Data" page, include credits to those who helped them, and include the sources that assisted in the formation of the maps.  They include contacts, who created the web page, and statistics on how they update errors, etc. Overall, not only is this website interesting to me because I am a map nerd, but I think this would be very useful in geography, economics, and other social studies classes.
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    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Nate Merrill

The map as history : a multimedia atlas of world history with animated historical maps - 19 views

    • Lauren Olson
       
      This is a great site for visual learners. Being able to see political and culutral transformations of continents is an incredible tool for students of all ages. Unfortunately, not all maps on this site are free. There is a nominal fee that charges for acess to more obscure maps.
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    "The largest on-line collection of animated historical maps"
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Maps of World - A Great Learning Tool (and maps too) - 0 views

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    This site contains a huge variety of maps plus useful facts including demographics, economic data, and the history behind the subject of each map. Great tool for teachers and students.
Jennifer Carey

Learn to Use the New Google Maps & Google Earth for Education via Free Mapping with Goo... - 0 views

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    Free class to teach you how to use the new Google Maps & Google Earth. Self-paced.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Mapping History - Hundreds of Animated and interactive maps of hi... - 0 views

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    Excellent collection of animated and interactive maps about the history of the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Nate Merrill

Omniatlas Maps - 0 views

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    Historical Maps of Europe, Russia and China
Jennifer Carey

Making Magnificent Maps - 0 views

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    Using the new google maps engine
David Loudon

Indian Ocean History - 0 views

    • David Loudon
       
      This section offers overviews of the Indian Ocean and the uses of it in different eras. This section is more helpful than the maps which, although visually appealing, are more confusing than helpful.
    • David Loudon
       
      Offer a detailed 13-page bibliography of secondary sources used when creating this website. Seems very scholarly and accurate.
    • David Loudon
       
      This section is the one most applicable to teaching as it offers actually full lesson plans, including a deeper description for the teacher of what the lesson plans hope to accomplish. They also plan out how you might use their information to make a one year or two year course with it. Very thorough and very helpful for world history teachers.
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    • David Loudon
       
      By clicking the items, you get more information about the person, place or idea as keyed on the map. Nevertheless, the map is crowded and confusing for someone not already familiar with the material.
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    A reference site based on the study of the history, geography and cultures of the Indian Ocean and the peoples who used it. Has an interactive map divided into different historical periods and offers lesson plans for teachers.
Preston Spradling

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Historical Map Web Sites - 0 views

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    This collection, run by the University of Texas, contains maps of all sorts from a large period of time. Additionally, it also houses links to collections not run by the university, but nearly all of both groups of maps are excellent scans of the original documents.
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    I use this site all the time for my research.
Samantha Greenwald

CIA - The World Factbook - 0 views

    • Samantha Greenwald
       
      These regional maps can be used by the teacher to help students locate the area of interest and work on their map reading skills. It might be beneficial to have these mpas laminated around the room so students can reference them when needed.
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      These subcategories (intro, geography, people, gov, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues) are all aspects of social studies that can be examined individually or collectively in understanding other countries and comparing it to the US.
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    This website provides students with historical and contemporary information about 266 countries in the world as well as a variety of maps to help with building geography skills.
kkasargodstaub

Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com - 9 views

  • Mapmaking Guides
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      Great initial resources for a geography class. Lots of definitions and easy explanations.
  • Hundreds of printer-friendly maps
    • kkasargodstaub
       
      Teachers can find lots and lots of printer friendly maps to use in their classrooms.
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    Excellent resource for geography. I particularly like the map making guides at the bottom of the page. It outlines the core information and content that students should know.
Erin Power

New to English - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

    • Erin Power
       
      This map takes statistics from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Education Programs and maps it out so it is more meaningful.
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      A teacher could use this site to understand the reality that they will most definitely teach to students who do not speak English, and deciding a plan for how they will approach this situation. Also, they could use it in a social studies classroom as a visual demonstration of a widespread social change.
    • Erin Power
       
      I think this site is valuable because its a great example of what can be done with the internet, its an interactive map that shows social change on both a widespread and small level.
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    • Erin Power
       
      The rise in English learners is a remarkably fast growing trend in the past few years - one that teachers need to be ready to deal with.
    • Erin Power
       
      Its important to Note the information in DC - there is a very high population of English Language Learners.
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    This map shows the growing population of English Language Learners (students who are not fluent English speakers) in the American school system.
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    This interactive graph is so interesting! I like these kinds of web tools.
Laura Wood

Virtual Jamestown - 0 views

  • Newest Timelines
    • Laura Wood
       
      Has timelines arranged around the following: "a) Jamestown in the Global Context b) Journey to Jamestown - the Voyage of the Susan Constant and the first 90 days at the fort c) Jamestown, 1606-1608 d) Virginia, 1608-1612 e) New England, 1602-1620"
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    • Laura Wood
       
      Includes contemporary interviews with Native American descendants of Jamestown as well as maps of the Native American towns that predated Jamestown in this area. Also contains a Google Earth map based on the original drawings of John Smith. "Dr. Julie Solometo researched and organized the entry on the Paspahegh Indians. What the English called Jamestown, the Indians called Paspahegh territory.. Interviews and videotaping of contemporary Indians was done by Phyannon Berkowitz, Jeffery Dalton, and Crandall Shifflett."
  • Complete Works of John Smith
    • Laura Wood
       
      From the Site: "Letters and first-hand accounts allow us to see seventeenth-century society as no other record can. . . . They are best approached with the questions: what are the authors trying to tell us and what are their agendas? These materials do give us a sense of the contingencies, uncertainties,and dilemmas that surrounded choices and when read critically should lead to a better understanding of what factors shaped individual decisions. newspapers A full-text searchable database (XML) gives us a powerful tool for tracing and comparing topics, ideas, concepts, motivations, and much more from vantage points of time, space, power, authority, race, class, gender, and ethnicity"
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  • Teaching Materials
    • Laura Wood
       
      LESSON PLANS!!!! Some of these are even in our exact format!!! All are on Jamestown. Lots about runaway slaves and indentured servants, some on Native American relationships. Most make use of primary documents. Check em out! :-)
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    • Laura Wood
       
      MAP!! Okay so sort of hard to read but here is a map based on John Smith's records. It's interesting to note how the water lines have changed. hmmmmm.
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    From the website: "The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony."
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Old Pictures - Thousands of historic photographs and maps - 0 views

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    Large collection of historic photographs and maps.
Lauren Olson

Europe's colonial expansion : colonization of Africa, colonization of Asia… - 0 views

    • Lauren Olson
       
      I particularly like the formats of these maps. The only disappointing part is that the maps only cover 1820-1939. It would be interesting to see colonalism covered in some of these contexts as well
Preston Spradling

The Naval Postgraduate School's map collection - 0 views

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    The NPS' website has a series of links to all manner of useful maps, including ones hosted by the University of California, that are quite good.
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    How might teachers use this site and its resources?
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