websites

=Websites=

[|Internet Archive] is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

Classroom Implementation Idea: When introducing or discussing "big concepts", ie, "Total War" during World War I, students can locate a primary source document (news article, photograph, propaganda, political cartoon, etc.) that illustrates the concept and then explain why it was selected.

[|BBC: A History of the World in 100 Objects] Podcasts that use objects to tell the history of the world.

[|My Fake Wall] Tool for creating a fake Facebook wall for a fictitious or historical character. After creating an account, you can write wall posts, upload images, and comment on other "fake" posts.

[|Diigo] Diigo is a free social bookmarking tool. Features include the ability to highlight and take notes on web pages, share the pages (including the notes) with groups, create lists, collaborate with others and much more!

Classroom Implementation Idea: Collect resources and create a public list for your students to use. Geography example: []

[|Twitter] A micro-blogging tool. "Tweet" in 140 characters or less. Use a [|twitter client], like [|TweetDeck], to customize, follow multiple hashtags, manage multiple accounts and create saved searches that you let you follow events in real time.

Classroom Implementation Ideas: 1. Follow campaign and/or candidate hashtags for the upcoming elections.

2. Create fictitious tweets from past events or time periods. Example: You are a Georgia delegate attending the Continental Congress. Write at least 5 tweets that would have appropriate for that time period.

[|igoogle] Use your google account to build a personalized dashboard. There are millions of gadgets to choose from.

Classroom Implementation Idea: 1. Build an "Election 2012" page using current news gadgets, google news custom searches and google blog custom searches.