Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

American Experience


American Experience is a wonderful website done through PBS where you can find over 1,500 resources from more than 110 American Experience Web sites. These resources include timelines, primary sources, teacher's guides, maps, galleries, interactives, and videos to use in your classroom.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Virtual Artifacts Creation

Museum Box

Want a great way to create a virtual display of artifacts that you find online? Museum Box is a great tool for organizing images, text, links, and video and audio clips. When students have finished collecting their artifacts, their "boxes" become digital dioramas.
Below is a great Museum Box tutorial from Adam Bellow at EduTeacher.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Dipity


(Information taken from the Dipity website)

What is Dipity?

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

Why use Dipity?

Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines.