History Resources

History Day is coming soon! Here is a list of 100YouTube Channels for History Buffs. I found this on Online College Blog. It often has great lists of useful sites. Worth adding to your RSS reader.

Something Else

I found this on Free Technology for Teachers.

"The Community College System of Colorado has a faculty wiki on which there is a page about Bloom's Taxonomy. The Bloom's Taxonomy page contains two flash tutorials designed to help teachers to plan lessons and create assignments using Bloom's Taxonomy. The first tutorial is a general overview of Bloom's Taxonomy. The second tutorial applies the concepts of Bloom's Taxonomy to current Internet resources like blogs, wikis, and multimedia mash-up tools."

Nice.

Things I Found Today

...via Twitter and reading my Bloglines feeds.

The first one is this short slide presentation :

A Teacher's Guide To Web 2.0 at School

View more documents from Sacha Chua.

I added the author's blog (http://sachachua.com/wp/) to my reader after browsing her posts.

Another discovery is this series of short films from Project Information Literacy, a research project of the iSchool at the University of Washington. There are five in the series and all are worth watching, but I especially liked these:

PIL InfoLitDialog, No. 3: Frustrations


PIL InfoLitDialog, No. 1: Wikipedia


Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults (college students) and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. What PIL learns will apply to how K-12 teaches research, too.

History Resources

The Gilderman Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American History. The Institute maintains a website as a portal for American history on the Web; to offer high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public; and to provide up-to-date information about the Institute's programs and activities. There is a lot to explore here, including online exhibitions such as Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars, Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, and The Manhattan Project.

Libraries Change Lives

William Kamkwamba built a windmill in his Malawi village from a picture he found in a library book. (The library was funded by the US Government.) He was interviewed recently by John Stewart on The Daily Show.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
William Kamkwamba
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview

William was invited to give a TED talk that you can watch here. His book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has been published recently.

YouTube Channel

LeAnn mentioned subscribing to YouTube channels as part of your online personal learning network. SMART Technologies, producers of SMART Boards, has started a channel that highlights ways to use the boards in classrooms, offers tips & tricks, and more all in thei YouTube channel. A good resource if you have a SMART Board. Subscribe here http://www.youtube.com/user/SMARTClassrooms#p/a

National Information Literacy Awareness Month

Official notice of the importance of information literacy! President Obama has declared October National Information Literacy Awareness Month. From the press release,

Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation. This new type of literacy also requires competency with communicationtechnologies, including computers and mobile devices that can help in our day-to-day decisionmaking....Though we may know how to find the information we need, we must also know how to evaluate it.

You can read the entire press release here.

Reliable Web Reference Sites

The American Library Association MARS (Machine-Assisted Reference Section*) has just published the 11th Annual list of best free reference sites. The list recognizes outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web. You can find the list here.

* I have always thought the MARS acronym particularly appropriate--sort of a space agey name--Machine-Assisted Reference.