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Each activity-creation tool helps students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Choose one of the tools below to begin. Then find and insert primary sources and customize the activity to fit your unique students.

"Can you do any better than the real colonists? You will have a copy of the London Company's Instructions to help guide you. Also, you can ask your fellow colonists and the Native Americans for advice. Be careful, though, because some advice is better than others! "

Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more.

I saw on Twitter that one of my peeps was told that this year they will develop their own /Professional/Personal Learning Network. Just in case that happens here, this may help get someone started.

FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. We present the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at top universities, think tanks and conferences. We gather this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.

* Home * Parents * Teachers * Text Version Admongo.gov * About * Help * Glossary * Ad Library Spread the Word Live the Adventure - AdMongo Welcome to Admongo where advertising is all around you. Online. Outside. On television. Who makes ads? How do they work? What do they want you to do? Here, you will explore, discover, and learn. Can you make it to the top?

"n Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking), and..."

Blog, wiki or google doc? Which do you need for what you're trying to accomplish? This matrix can help you decide.

Find synonyms, antonyms & definition for (almost) any word - To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

Debatepedia is "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". Its mission is to "clarify public debates and improve decision-making globally". Debatepedia is a project of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), a 501c3 non-profit. It utilizes the same wiki technology powering Wikipedia to engage you and other citizen-editors in clarifying public debates by centralizing them into a single pro/con encyclopedia. This helps you, other citizens, and leaders better weigh ALL the pros and cons, develop positions, and make more informed decisions, votes, etc... And this significantly improves democracy and people's lives.

Here are 10 top of the line programs that will help you take your PowerPoint presentation global. If you haven't used any of these to create some great video, give them a shot!

This web site aims to help students to memorize English vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games.

Cheat sheets have a bad rap as a way for students to succeed on tests without actually knowing the information, but now it's time for them to have a more positive place in education. Cheat sheets can offer a succinct way for students to study their lessons and provide an excellent boost to what you are already teaching them in class. Cheat sheets can provide helpful information for teachers too.

Help create an historical look at the world. There is an into on the front page that will explain the mission of the site. Really good idea!

"Copyright laws can be vague and confusing. We hope that you can find your way with the help of this information. Although this website was developed for North Carolina educators, it should be of use to teachers and librarians everywhere."

"tools you can use to get your students presenting! Included is a brief description and helpful links to facilitate using these tools more effectively in the classroom."

"The best homework tasks exhibit five characteristics. First, the task has a clear academic purpose, such as practice, checking for understanding, or applying knowledge or skills. Second, the task efficiently demonstrates student learning. Third, the task promotes owner ship by offering choices and being personally relevant. Fourth, the task instills a sense of competence-the student can success fully complete it without help. Last, the task is aesthetically pleasing-it appears enjoyable and interesting (Vatterott, 2009)."

"Ten easy tips for educators can help prevent bullying in schools and online"

"We live in a time of rapidly changing technology, increasing globalization, and serious environmental issues affecting the planet. We need a new generation of thinkers in our schools and in the workplace to help solve problems. New digital tools enable students to take charge of their learning. With their hands on a whiteboard or laptop keyboard, they are engaged in active learning rather than passive response mode. Explore solutions below."

"Throughout its history, the BBC has aimed to help audiences delve into the imagination of writers. This collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels. "