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Kathy Schrock's Home Page - Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet
A Three Hour Tour: Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet (Kathy Schrock)
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The Learning Page... especially for teachers
Lesson plans and activities for using primary sources in the classroom.
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Guide to Wikipedia Tools & Resources
Everything You Wanted to Do With Wikipedia Encyclopedia
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Europeana - Homepage
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items.
* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
* Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's
* museums and galleries
* archives
* libraries
* audio-visual collections
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OttoBib - Free Automatic Easy Bibliography Generator. Fast! MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian
Make a bibliography. It's free, easy and OttoMatic.
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Copyright Kids
The goals of the Copyright Society's Kid's Website are to provide:
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an educational tool to define, explain, and apply copyright issues in language understandable to Middle School students.
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an educational resource on copyright issues for teachers and parents of 5th - 8th graders who are engaged in a creative process.
* instructions about how to protect your own creations by registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The site is designed so that students may use it on their own or in connection with classroom activities. The material provided on this site may be reproduced for educational, noncommercial purposes, provided that the following copyright notice is included: "Copyright 2001, The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.," and the following acknowledgment also included: "These materials are reproduced from the copyrightkids.org website courtesy of Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), an initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.."
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Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
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Simple English Wikipedia
This wikipedia only uses simple English words and grammar. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English.
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FactCheckED.org
Looking for support to assist students with becoming critical consumers of information? Stop by this site for lesson plans, guides for teaching critical thinking, and how to recognize deceptive arguments.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For Teachers and Students
The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities for educators, provides documents and exercises for classroom use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes.
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Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
An online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
* No membership required.
Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.
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Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
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Digital History
...using new technologies to enhance teaching and research. Primary sources for use in the classroom, Multimedia activities, eXplorations, timelines, lesson plans and more.
in list: Copyright & Fair Use
more fromwww.digitalhistory.uh.edu
Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others.
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Visual Dictionary Online
A dictionary with a new point of view
that catches the eye and enriches the mind.
* 20,000 terms with contextual definitions,
developed by terminology experts;
* 6,000 full-color images of a wide variety of objects
from all aspects of life;
* One essential reference.
The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.
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Forvo: the pronunciation guide.
All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers
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