Digital Content—
See my delicious account for other cool links: dgholma
1. Media Conversion: how to save a youtube for use in school.
http://www.mediaconverter.org/ I will show an example of this and the power it
can have on student engagement and learning. Also Zamzar.
Before you go here…open springboard to dropbox and download and save the
digital content document onto your flashdrive. Follow its directions:
http://delicious.com/ We will set up an account on this site. You will not get any
emails or information from them. Right hand at the top: Join Now.
Paid For content:
a. www.Unit edStreaming.com – discovery, history channel, A&E film clips
b. www.brainpop.com---animated film clips
c. my.hrw.com—online textbooks
d. www.studyisland.com
e. Others?
Free Content:
f. Itunes and Rss Feeds: Podcasts and Utunes. DOWNLOAD AT HOME.
g. Ohio Resource Center:
http://www.ohiorc.org/standards_first/
h. Infohio: http://www.infohio.org/
i. Ohio Treasure Chest: http://www.ohiotreasurechest.org/
j. Free online podcasts: http://www.podomatic.com/
k. Free Blogging online: http://www.blogger.com/home
l. First Year teacher: http://discoveryeducation.com/survival/
m. http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/ Lots of useful and helpful tutorials. Also
search for other tutorials for topics you might need later. Many others.
n. www.teachertube.com
o. Atomic Learning (ZipLine) Ruckus (music): how to do almost any
computer task.
p. Other, see Below—Tons and tons of stuff.
Movies
Info Ohio Free downloads or streaming media for use in PowerPoints.
http://mediast.infohio.org/main.php
To use with a mac you will have to download and use Flip4Mac
Link http://mediast.infohio.org/main.php
www.unitedstreaming.com
www.brainpop.com
Music
I-Tunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes
E-Music: http://www.emusic.com 33 Cents a song
Zipline Ruckus: Free downloads.
Oral History
Transom
http://transom.org
Southern Oral History Project
http://sohp.org/howto/index.html
Valley of the Shadow:
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
PBS
www.pbs.org
www.pbs.org/teachers
Ideastream
www.wviz.org
www.wcpn.org
www.npr.org
Local
Cleveland Memory
www.clevelandmemory.org
Cultural Gardens
www.culturalgardens.org
Podcasting
www.talkinghistory.org
Itunes
Tools
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/yourtools.php
Scrapbook: http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scrapbook
Timeline Builder: Http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/timelines/
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu
Gaming in Education
Average gamer: 33
31% less 18
44% between 18-49
25% more 50
Gender of Gamer: 62% male, 38% Female
http://beta.edutopia.org/node/3974
Film (12mins) that explains school in Washington that using gaming and similatuation.
Serious Games Summit: http://www.seriousgamessummit.com/
American Federation of Science. http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp
Discover Babylon: http://www.discoverbabylon.org/News.asp
Making History (WWII): $39.00 http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/games/MakingHistory/
Living in other worlds simulation: $29.00 http://www.educationalsimulations.com/
A large number of simulations for all courses:
http://www.shambles.net/pages/students/simulation/
Math, Science, Social Studies “old” free games: http://www.techtrekers.com/sim.htm
Information on simulations: http://www.calt.insead.edu/encyclopedia/?serious%20games
http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/cb/simsites.html
Immune Attack http://www.fas.org/immuneattack/
Howard Huges Online Labs: http://www.hhmi.org/about/
Online UK games covering many World History topics:
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/top_activities/index.htm
Video Free:
http://www.blinkx.com/
www.youtube.com
www.unitedstreaming.com (cost)
http://www.cnn.com/video/ (today) Past: http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/
Free video hosting: http://www.vidilife.com/
Free video hosting: http://www.zippyvideos.com/
LikeTelevision…only better: http://tesla.liketelevision.com/
Weblogs you can RSS feed From.
http://www.schoolfunding.info/blog/
http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
http://www.eschoolnews.com/today/esntoday101707.htm
http://www.etech.ohio.gov/programs/elearning/
E-Learning Classes
http://www.cnet.com/?tag=hdrgif
Free online classes
Some useful sites
1. Sites with useful links
a. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/
b. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
c. http://www.archive.org/index.php - Movies, audio, and text!
2. Photo sites
a. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20020123001bfpage.db&re
cNum=2 - Ansel Adams photos of Japanese American interns
b. http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ - Cleveland history
3. Video sites
a. http://objectofhistory.org/objects/ - Movies that begin lesson plans on
object-centered history
b. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/multimedia.cfm - Various movies on
American history
4. Audio sites
a. http://www.loc.gov/vets/ - Veterans oral history
b.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/sound_recording_a
nalysis_worksheet.pdf - Worksheet for recording analysis
c. http://www.emusic.com/ - Cheap downloadable music
5. Primary Documents
a. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/ - National Archives
b. http://www.archives.gov/index.html - National Archives
c. http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm - U.S.
censuses
List of sites—Many history related, but useful for all
classes.
World History Matters
http://worldhistorymatters.org/
Western Civilization Webography
http://chnm.gmu.edu/webography/
Exploring U.S. History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Many Pasts: Searching the Web
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/search.pp
Making Sense of Evidence
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
Teaching Sites: Annotated Web Sites
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
The Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
American Folklife Center
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
Online Collections
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/onlinecollections.html
Veteran’s Oral History Project
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
WPA—Slavery–
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
American Slave Narratives: an Online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
Southern Mosaic—the Lomax Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
Folklife & Fieldwork: Oral History
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwork/index.html
National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Object of History
http://www.objectofhistory.org/
LemelsonCenter
http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
Center for History & New Media
Do History
http://dohistory.org/
Martha Ballard
National Archives & Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov /
NARA: Teaching with documents
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
NARA: Lesson Plans
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
NARA: World War II photos
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails/index.html
NARA: Presidential Libraries
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/
Miller Center of Public Affairs --Presidents
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/
University of Virginia Library: Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
United States Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html
IPUMS
http://www.ipums.umn.edu/
Digital History-University of Houston
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
History Now
http://www.historynow.org/
History News Network
http://hnn.us/comments/8816.html
UNC: Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
Virginia Center for Digital History
Valley of the Shadow: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
For teachers: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/teaching/vclassroom/vclasscontents.html
CNN Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Central America: The Sport of Life & Death
http://www.ballgame.org/
US History Topics
On Oral History and its methods
Transom
http://www.transom.org/
Do History
http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html
Southern Oral History Project
http://sohp.org/howto/index.html
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/
University of California—Berkeley
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
E-Music as a source for “independent” and hard to find music
http://www.emusic.com/
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
ideastream
http://www.wviz.org/
http://www.wcpn.org/
The History Channel
http://www.history.com/
Cleveland Memory
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/
Cultural Gardens
http://www.culturalgardens.org/
Program related materials:
http://www.csusocialhistory.org/
http://tristero.typepad.com/sounds/
http://www.wviz.org/sounds/
http://podcast.rwlo.org/