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100 Incredible YouTube Channels for History Buffs | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
"If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need. Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You’re sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure."
TED Talks Demystified for Teachers
Jeff Mummert from The History Teachers Attic has published this great post which lists the TED videos that he thinks are particularly useful and divides them up by subjects including the traditional curriculum areas. As he point out this list is not the sum total of all the TED videos, just a selection of those most relevant to education.
The Twitter Experiment Video
The Twitter Experiment video is a reflection piece on how Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, used Twitter to communicate more with her students and involve them in discussions outside of the classroom. Though not definitive the discussion on the video is worthy of consideration.
xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines
xtimeline is another free web-based timeline. Here you can easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.
TimeRime.com - Make your own timeline!
Another Timeline Tool
The National Archives Learning Curve | Focus on Film
This UK site is designed to promote critical evaluation of the use of film in the study of history and history teaching. It includes discussion of some of the issues related to film as evidence, activities that investigate different aspects of film, an archive of original and reconstructions as well as showcasing how film editors work via an online editing tool.
History Is Elementary
This blog is styled as a site for history teachers and anyone who enjoys reading about history and history education. Though written by an elementary or primary school teacher, the blog has numerous posts and links to information that should be of interest to all teachers of history.
Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government
These fascinating Flash based maps trace the history of events and trends such as the march of democracy, and the Imperial History of the Middle East. The maps play in a flash player that can also be embedded in a blog or wiki. Another great tool for use with an IWB.
NLA Australian Newspapers beta
"The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers. They are creating a free online service that will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the Program."
Within the browser you can search on detail, dates, newspaper title and State. Whilst the article is originally in a smaller "browser" you can zoom and move around the page, you can also view the page in a separate window from where you can download a pdf version.
Awesome Stories
AwesomeStories is geat site that brings together a range of primary sources of history including written, audio, video, slideshow, digital images and documents into a story format. As the folks at Awesome Stories say
"The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located."
Whilst the original material in the site is largely American based the approach used serves as a great model in how historical record can be assembled as a narrative.
Museum Box Homepage
If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence.
So what does museumbox do?
museum box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.
Dig IT
DigIT is an online project that gives pupils the opportunity;
".... to generate ideas, be imaginative and use new technologies to creatively share their learning with their peers." Project Overview "Dig IT is an exciting opportunity for Key Stage 2 pupils to investigate and write about the people and events associated with some of Kent's most famous historical sites.During the project all pupils will:
• Develop their understanding of chronology by visiting Historical sites in Kent
• Use the Internet, maps, photographs, books, drawings and other research documents to discover who in the past lived and worked at these sites
• Examine artefacts and conclude what they would have been used during those times
• Use web conferencing to interview staff from EH and Canterbury Archaeological Trust about famous past events
• Publish their finished work (audio, text, video) on the project micro-site
NEN Gallery : Home
The UK National Education Network has a range of original resources including images, sound bites and video that are downloadable. Whilst all the resources in this Gallery have been provided freely for Educational use they ARE NOT copyright free: the copyright in the resource is retained by the resource owner and any commercial use is explicitly excluded.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
All About Explorers | Everything you've ever wanted to know about every explorer who ever lived...and more!
All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data. So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile.
Explore history, Ergo, State Library of Victoria
‘Explore history' tells the stories of Victoria's social, political and cultural development with original documents and images that you can use in your assignments. It's a taste of the sort of information you can find in the State Library of Victoria's collections – both onsite and online – that will make writing your next essay much easier.
Learn what life was like in colonial Melbourne, from the people who were there to see it happen. Discover Melbourne's criminal past, the history of Victoria's changing landscape and the political events that have shaped the state.
Cartoon PD in a Package
Exam markers have identified cartoon interpretation as an area of weakness in the teaching of History in Australian schools. Cartoon PD in a Package is a new resource from the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, developed with the support of a grant from the Public Education Endowment Trust. The package is designed to develop confidence and proficiency in teachers and students using cartoon resources. The value of this resource lies in its self-contained nature which allows it to deliver quality professional development without a presenter and at a time that suits the individual teacher. Teachers will find this package invaluable.
Screen Australia - Digital Learning - Former Film Australia
Screen Australia’s Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia’s remarkable archive—one of the nation’s largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers. Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder makes it easy to search via curriculum, topic or keyword. Watch or download video clips featuring Australian life from the distant past to the present day. The video clips are carefully selected to cover topics including Australians at Work and War, Immigration, Indigenous Australia and Native Title, Asia-Pacific region, Australian politics, The Arts, Broadcast Media from radio to the Internet, Sustainability and Values and Citizenship. There are more than 600 resources to select from, with more added weekly.
Flickr: Picture Australia: Ourtown
Help us to capture past and present reflections of Australia and its people and add them to the nation’s richest online pictorial resource www.pictureaustralia.org. 'Picture Australia: Ourtown' group seeks your perspective on Australia’s rural and urban spaces. Assist us to keep the national collection current by taking contemporary location shots of historical images already in Picture Australia.
Flickr: Picture Australia: People, places and events
The 'Picture Australia: People, Places and Events’ group is seeking images of social, political, contemporary and or historical events of national significance. Picture Australia is a collaborative, online service managed by the National Library of Australia. It provides access to more than 1.6 million images from major collecting institutions. If you would like to contribute your Flickr images to this group, your creative product will be displayed in the nation’s visual record.
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