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Family History Education - My Place In History - MyPlaceInHistory.com - 11 views

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    My Place in History, a new educational programme for Australian upper primary schools, is a web-based programme designed to teach students about the concepts of change and diversity - of backgrounds, in family structures, and the many economic, political and social circumstances in both our distant and more recent history that have contributed to who we are today and how we all came to be living in Australia.
David Hilton

History Teachers Group - 22 views

Thanks for pointing that out Dianne. It seems the last parenthesis has been included in the URL address. The correct link is here: http://groups.diigo.com/group/history-teachers

history teachers resources sources open source databases

Janet Allen

World History in Video: About World History in Video - 22 views

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    Great world history video database
Katy Vance

Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - 0 views

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    Primary Source documents from Ancient History to Modern Day
Robin Cicchetti

BBC News - World News America - Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age - 11 views

  • Physically this data might exist somewhere but the challenge is making it accessible to future historians.
  • "The average life of a web page, as best as we can tell, is about 100 days before it is either updated or disappears.
  • "We are grappling with digital migration as a means of preservation, rather than analogue, paper-based preservation. The Twitter archive ratchets up this activity enormously."
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  • Twitter donated its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress in April 2010.
  • "So not only is everyone producing history, everyone has access to history and everyone has to be a historian in the digital age."
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    Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.
Carla Shinn

Beyond the Book: Infographics of Students' Reading History - 19 views

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    "Recently, I've also been fascinated by the way the human mind interprets visual symbols. From doodling to reading and writing text, the brain is wired with a proclivity for visual sensory ability. In order to help students harness this power, we have been trying our hand at visual notes and sketchnoting in class. Then I decided to try some lessons with infographics."
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    Here's Joyce Valenza's take on the idea, with suggestions for collaboration with teachers and some other web 2.0 tools: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/06/20/recording-kids-history-as-readers/
Mrs. Fink

History Happens - Home - 21 views

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    stories from American History in music videos
Cara Whitehead

February: Black History Month - 11 views

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    February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114
Cathy Oxley

Lion Television . Case Study . Horrible Histories - 3 views

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    Television series and interactive game based onHorrible Histories books
Susan Harari

Copyright criminals - 20 views

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    hese resources examine copyright law in the history of "borrowing" sounds in music, and raise provocative questions about what is creative and what is criminal. These lessons are directed toward grades 9 through 12, and college students for use in the following subject areas: media studies, media literacy, social studies, history, sociology, media production, music and language arts, business, and legal studies.
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    These PBS resources examine copyright law in the history of "borrowing" sounds in music, and raise provocative questions about what is creative and what is criminal. These lessons are directed toward grades 9 through 12. Divided into short video segments. Includes lesson plans and teaching guide.
Susan Harari

Computer History Museum - 0 views

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    History of computers:  timeline, famous inventors, the birth of the Internet, etc.
Nelsan Lersch

How Do Instant Online Loans Works? - 0 views

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    Instant cash loans are the easy deal where one can get speedy money with their poor credit history. Short term loans that are easily available in market without any stress .
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    Instant cash loans are the easy deal where one can get speedy money with their poor credit history. Short term loans that are easily available in market without any stress .
Jennifer Dimmick

PrimarySourceSets - 28 views

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    from digital public library of America; great sets to accompany a text (great gatsby), or history unit
Janet Cerni

Educators Guide to Copyright - 0 views

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    "To help you answer these questions, The Copyright Alliance, as part of its educational mission, has assembled a valuable array of classroom curricula and other teaching resources on its website, www.CopyrightAlliance.org. "In addition, the Alliance has partnered with the award-winning curriculum experts at Young Minds Inspired (YMI) to develop this comprehensive Educator's Guide to Copyright, which includes: "* An overview that defines copyright, traces its history, and clarifies the issues of fair use and plagiarism in the classroom (pages 2-3). "* A FAQ section that will answer some general copyright questions as well as questions that arise in the classroom (pages 4-5). "* A glossary designed to keep you abreast of the language of copyright and computers (page 6). * Standards charts for all the educational materials available on the Alliance website to help you integrate these resources into your curriculum (pages 7-13)"
Carla Shinn

Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting & Sound - 13 views

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    The Media History Digital Library. Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound. We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 800,000 pages, and that number is growing. Our Collections feature Extensive Runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
Donna Bills

100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents - Learn-gasm - 26 views

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    Good quick=reference list of historical document sources
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