Using+Technology+in+the+History+Classroom

The National History Education Clearinghouse has interesting videos, links and tips on their Digital Classroom page http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom-intro

__**Check-in/Chat**__
To create polls & surveys (service is free up to 30 students) [|__http://www.polleverywhere.com/vote__]

[|__http://todaysmeet.com/__] Set up office hours, use for quick comprehension check at beginning of class

**__National Archives, Library of Congress, & British Library resources:__**
[|__http://www.digitalvaults.org/__]

[|__http://docsteach.org/__]

[|__http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html__] [|__http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html__]

[|__http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html__]

__**Creating Presentations:**__
[] Create zooming presentations (going beyond the powerpoint)

__**Search for history sites, games, webquests, resources, etc.**__
[|__http://besthistorysites.net/__] Web based resources grades 5-12

[|__http://www.thwt.org/__] Teaching History with Technology

**__Examples of great games and animation__**
[|__http://www.constitutionfacts.com/__]

[|__http://www.icivics.org/__]

__**Web Searches**__
[|__http://www.sweetsearch.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sweet search (only searches 35,000 sites); all educational sites Limit students in their searching (good for young learners) Limit to reader level if desired

Creating a search engine to guide student research <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.google.com/cse/__]

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__**e-books (type e-text to look for books online via Google)**__ === ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html__] === ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.gutenberg.org/ebooks__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Copy and paste chapters, etc. into your site, word documents etc. in lieu of buying entire books Take images from LOC and paste into text—create your own mini-e book with reading prompts Create links on words you want to define Insert comments on words (word definitions), questions,prompts, etc. “at this point in the story think about….” ===

__**Webquests**__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://webquest.org/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Quest garden: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://questgarden.com/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__bestwebquests.com__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://thwt.org/webqueststhinkquests.html__]

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Copyright issues **__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://creativecommons.org/__]

__**Creating presentations online**__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create videos with students: create 30 second videos or get approved as an educator to make longer videos <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://animoto.com/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://edu.glogster.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students can create posters on line

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.wix.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create flash site

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.capzles.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Creating timelines with images, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.diigo.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Collecting tools--group sharing