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Here is an interesting blog post from the Cool Cat Blog. It is about technology in the classroom and how many teachers do not have experience with technology.

Provides tons of links to different teaching websites, including textbook providers, blogs, wikis, and AP teaching resources.

Introduces new methods of integrating technology into a history classroom

This website helps to show teachers how to integrate technology into the classroom.

An interesting blog on how teachers should and could use technology in the classroom.

This blog allows teachers to share resources and tips on new technology and how to use it in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning

Very detailed but provides some good information on using technology for teaching. Has many very practical aspects

A brief video about ways to incorporate new forms of technology in the classroom and how to make active learning interactive learning

I found this on an edu blog and it creates a list of things to do with google. Some are obvious but some of these ideas could stimulate other ways we can incorporate technology in the classroom

An interesting video about the need to reform schools and integrate technology into school curriculumm.

I thought this site was especially fitting for our CI 335 class because it helps teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum and classrooms. It has links to an online textbook, primary source documents, videos, and much more.

The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology among many things.

This site is devoted to primary sources and ideas for teachers on how to teach a specific era of history. This site includes links to movies, powerpoint slides, primary source documents, lesson plans, and handouts for teachers.

Part 3 of a series of resources on the Harlem Renaissance. A great interactive map of Harlem in the 1920s. Would be great fun to use on a SmartBoard!

A online model curriculum in World History for middle school and high schools. It is an continuing project consisting of material and resources from K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. Has teaching units, lesson plans, and other resources.

This is a great article and video about how a history teacher uses Twitter in the classroom.

Here is the website for the American Institute for History Education. It has many helpful and interesting things for History educators such as workshops, technology resources and much more! You can even sign up for a news Gazette.

This site is a great tool for any teacher. It has numerous resources for teachers, and categorizes them by both grade level and subject--including social studies. PBS also offers a wide array of technological resources for both teachers and students.

Has everything from lesson plans to videos and other resources related to social studies.

This is a resource for various things. It has examples of movies to use in the classroom as well as lesson plans

An interesting video that would be a good way to get students thinking about what happens to the electronic waste from all the technology in their lives. It would be a good starting for a project similar to the one we did in HIST100 and could work well with modern U.S. or world history as well as a political science/government classes.

This website contains a huge amount of information for teachers ranging from news on policy issues, blogs, a job search feature, a section on technology in schools, and a curriculum/lesson plan section. I would highly recommend exploring all the different tabs at the top of the webpage as well as the subsections.

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This article discusses how more and more professors are turning towards hand-held devices to keep students engaged and focused.