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analysis of Mark Antony's classic speech, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen!

Tags: wordle, Mark_Antony, Friends_Roman_Countrymen, data visualization, text, history, Rome, republic on 2008-11-14 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: WORDLE and its applications

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Peak Oil is a common concern and a scientific theory that would be an excellent topic for science teachers from middle school and up to discuss or teach about in the science class.

Tags: InTheKnowNow, blog, post, science, education, teaching, learning, environment, energy, oil, PeakOil, Hubbert, Kenneth_S_Deffeyes, preface, text, WORDLE, history on 2008-11-13 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: WORDLE and its applications

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Tags: wordle, text, education technology, Digital Archaeology, visualization, nonlinguistic_representation, history on 2008-11-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Layne P. Heiny explains the history of the word, WORDLE, as well as discussing the author of this web application

Tags: wordle, technology, education technology, teaching, history on 2008-11-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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interactive electoral map

Tags: election, socialstudies, history, maps, government, Politics, interactive, education, electoral college on 2008-10-27 and saved by52 people -All Annotations (1) -About

in list: 21st Century America

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digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet.

Tags: Oklahoma, oral_history, digital_story, local, state, archive, witness, history, learning, project, empowering, DIY on 2008-10-13 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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TimeRime.com is an online community that allows people to create, compare and upload information by creating timelines, and to view information uploaded by others. Information can be uploaded by individuals, as well as companies or (public) institutions.

Tags: web2.0, timerime, timeline, tools, time, timelines, education, history, DIY on 2008-10-08 and saved by65 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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As part of a multi-million pound digitisation project, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) have announced the launch of the web-based news archive NewsFilm Online. The site will supply scholars and educators with access to more than 3,000 hours of newsreel material to search through and manipulate.

Tags: download, edit, educators, historians, footage, fim, newsreels, digisation, digization, digital, JISC, history, news, primary_sources on 2008-10-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.

Tags: history, socialstudies, education, reference, digital, resources, primarysources, teaching on 2008-10-05 and saved by125 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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used in historical times by Native Americans and early settlers to relieve pleurisy, lung ailment; not used today; other earlier medicinal uses

Tags: Orange Milkweed, pleurisy, history, anthropology, Native Americans, settlers, USA on 2008-09-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A weekly podcast about the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of 'The Geography of Nowhere.' Hosted by Duncan Crary.

Tags: kunstlercast, parody, culture, sociology, anthropology, history, suburbs, population, USA on 2008-09-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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very profound commentary; describing today's cognitive surplus analagously to Industrial Revolution's people surplus.

Tags: ethics, commentary, cognitive, surplus, analogy, Industrial, Revolution, collaboration, internet, communication, Interactive, web2.0, shirky, TV, media, history, culture, Internet, social on 2008-08-05 and saved by73 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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a variety of read-alouds for integrating curriculum

Tags: social studies, Peter Spier, Star Spangled Banner, education, history on 2008-07-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events . Includes Full text, audio, and video database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century and movie speeches

Tags: history, rhetoric, USA on 2008-07-03 and saved by85 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: history, socialstudies on 2008-06-24 and saved by42 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Crear timelines y compartirlas en la web.

Tags: application, blogs, calendar, collaboration, community, compartir, cool, design, timeline, visualization, web2.0, flash, tools, timelines, interactive, history, time on 2008-06-24 and saved by123 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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tax case which determined that the tomato is considered a vegetable by use, not its botanical origins as the fruit of the tomato plant.

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an interview w/Alvin Toffler, sociologist and futureologist, who wrote "Future Shock" and other similar books

Tags: Future Shock, edutopia, education, toffler, futurism, innovation, history on 2008-06-09 and saved by17 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Oak Hill MS in GA implemented ZAP; "Published September 28, 2007 09:16 pm - Oak Hill Middle School is employing a new afterschool program to ensure students understand subject concepts and complete homework"
Students attend afterschool classes for one hour and receive time to complete assignments or help, if needed, understanding a concept, and are bused home free of charge.

Tags: Quality school, ZAP, AYP, homework, learning, school, afterschool, history, education on 2008-06-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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history of visualization from analog to digital and trends for the future in interview with Marc Canter, "The master of multimedia...".

Tags: canter, history, online, Macromedia, music, art, images, computers, programming on 2008-05-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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