Check these out if you teach history, love history, love technology, want to find ways to use technology in the classroom ... basically if you just want to know what is happening in the fields of history and technology.
Use them. Love them. Spread the word.
The Center for Teaching History with Technology This website has links to lesson plans using technology. *Ya? So do many other sites,* you're thinking. Check this one out. It is well-organized and non-intimidating, with additional sections for Webquests, Power Point, Podcasts, and Wikis.
Don't know what any of these are? Not to fear. The sections don't just contain links to lesson plans using these technologies, they actually explain the what/how/why questions you are asking yourself. *Aahh.*
Center for History and New Media You too will drool over this site. Links to lots of amazing sites with history plans (my faves: World History Sources and Exploring US History under Projects).
Resources section contains answers for why and how: why is history increasingly found online? how can we be sure of its validity and authenticity? how are others making use of this resource?
The Tools section has many fun tech things an educator could use to spice up teaching time: embedding surveys and polls in websites and creating a "scrapbook" students can edit or contribute to are just two of the options. I have not found time to explore the possibilities with these tools, but they sound fun. One of these days....
PBS Teachers Updated often! Some video clips or programming is available online. Lots of lesson plan ideas, and one of my favorite things, a section on media literacy. I intend to rely on primary resources in my classroom, not textbook analyses. Therefore, it will be very important to teach my students how media is used: what tools produce what types of motivation? what is the purpose behind this piece? PBS offers lots of activities suggestions to get students thinking and talking about the role media plays in society.
Another bonus - every month an educator's blog is highlighted, keeping us educators in the loop.
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