Here's a collection of a bunch of interesting history websites. If you've got a history site, be sure to add your site. It's quick and easy. The owner of the site is very quick to reply to any issues.
Top 100 History Websites
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
History Top 100 - History Websites
Monday, April 05, 2010
Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning
The American Association of School Librarians has compiled a list of some very useful websites.
The "Top 25" sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. All of the websites are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning
I've used several of these.... I can speak for the power of VoiceThread, Wordle and Wikispaces.
Another great site not to make the list is Wallwisher.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Daily History Quiz
For fun... here's a site where you can test your American history knowledge. Enjoy a new contest everyday.
http://www.historynet.com/quiz
Friday, September 25, 2009
USHistoryQuotes.com
An ongoing project to add to the success of USHistorySite.com, I've recently launched USHistoryQuotes.com.
USHistoryQuotes.com will have more than just quotes from presidents and your cliche Americans, but will also include important and more obscure statesmen, athletes, activists and artists.
Would love to get some suggestions from my readers as to who should be included on the site. In other words... who do you think is quote worthy?
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Links to History: SlideShare.net
Looking for a way to share your powerpoints with your students? A way for them to view them from home... SlideShare.net is your answer.
Slideshare allows you to easily upload your powerpoint to their website, for easy viewing by the public. Simply send the kids the URL, or input their slideshare widget on your blog or website, and your good to go.
http://www.slideshare.net/
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Links to History: Black History Month Lesson Plans and Resources
Here are some links to resources to help in planning for Black History Month.
At Thinkfinity.org you'll find lots of free educational resources for standards-based K-12 lesson plans, educational games, music clips and videos – all relating to Black History Month and available for downloading.
Thinkfinity.org, is the educational website of the Verizon Foundation, and the the Black History Month related free lesson plans, teacher resources and student activities on the site are great for your classrooms.
The American Federation of Teachers website, also has some decent resources: http://aft.org/teachers/black-history.htm
The AFT has identified a variety of resources to help educators celebrate Black History Month in their classrooms. This site highlights key historical events, influential figures and the continuing contributions African-Americans are making to our nation and the world.
It's also got some facts and figures which could make for good class discussion.
For example:
1.1 million is the number of blacks with advanced degrees, which is nearly twice the number from 1995.
You could ask your class to consider the reasons for such a huge increase.
And as always, the USHistorySite.com has plenty of pages with links to lesson plans on a variety of appropriate topics. Here are a few:
If you've got some of your own, please share them below.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Using YouTube Videos in the Classroom; Even if the Site is Blocked!
So you've found some useful videos to use in your classroom on YouTube. You can view them fine at home, only to discover that your school district has decided to block YouTube forcing you to go to plan B.
If this happens to you, there are several things you can do.
First you can check out http://teachertube.com/, which is the YouTube for teachers, but there aren't as many good videos to choose from. It's a great idea, but it needs more users to put up some better content. There are a few organizations who have taken to it, and posted some good historical content, but it might be a struggle to find exactly what you're looking for.
And finally you can use Zamzar (http://zamzar.com/) Zamzar is a file conversion website that can convert almost any type of file to the format you desire. In this case, you can input the URL of the YouTube video you desire and convert it into a format that you can save to your computer or your zip disk/thumb drive and access directly from your computer. Sometimes the files are rather large so I don't recommend emailing it, but you can certainly email the URLs of the videos and convert them from your school's computer.
Zamzar is quite simple. Just have it sent to your school email address and save it there. Hopefully you have a network, because the files are quite large, and it would be easier to share with other teachers.
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