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Cool tool: Tag clouds of presidents’ thoughts
Only Crook pointed this out in a comment — and it’s neat enough to raise to a headline: . . . have you seen the U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ I happened upon...
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Structurally deficient bridges in your state? See this cool tool
How does your state rank in terms of “structurally deficient bridges?” You can get a per capita report and comparison at this site chock full of statistics comparing states: Statemaster.com. Rank...
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Interactive panoramic images of World War II sites
Spectacular images of World War II historical sites are available at two websites every history or geography teacher should have bookmarked, and use frequently. The first is D-Day spots, which features...
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Toad mapping – another cool tool
What amphibians can be found in your local biome? What is the range of a particular amphibian, say the Great Plains toad? What does that toad look like? How does it sing? hear call (10337.1K WAV file)...
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Teachers’ planning: On-line sources for everything
Digital History. Maybe not absolutely everything. But you can mine this source, the veins are rich and deep. This is a list of sources from Digital History, a site maintained by the University of...
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Slave narratives in Flash animation
Wow! Teachers, take a look at this Flash animation about slavery, from the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. Yes, that beautiful, distinctive narrator voice is Maya Angelou — this is...
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Build-a-Prairie: Online game for geography, history, biology
The University of Minnesota distance learning site has a game students can play to create the ecosystems for a successful prairie. The prairie is one of North America’s great ecosystems and a vital...
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On-line textbooks: Economics and history
Text publishers for Texas generally provide websites to accompany their texts. In several cases the on-line version’s chief virtue is offering the full text on-line, in case students leave their books...
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History online, from Oxnard HS
Complete outline of U.S. history, high school version from Civil War to the present, for on-line use. Be sure to note the disclaimer! From Oxnard High School, Oxnard, California.
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Good news for history teachers: NY Times drops fees
The New York Times announced it will stop charging for access to much of its archives, from 1987 to the present, and from the paper’s inception through 1922. Other articles from 1922 to 1987 will be...
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Founders online, great interactive site
Our friends and benefactors at the Bill of Rights Institute put up a great branch of their site, Founders Online. A grant from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation made the project possible. Check it...
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In which we expose Leo Todd’s insults to President Fillmore
Dr. Bumsted sends us an alert to a site dedicated to President Franklin Pierce, the Franklin Pierce Pages. A delight to historians, no? Not necessarily. The page designers chose Pierce, our 14th...
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Addictive quizzes on world geography
Well, this is fairly addictive: The Travel IQ Quiz from TravelPod I’d love to have every kid in the class with a computer to take this thing, or pieces of it, to drill on it, and I’d love the ability...
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America by Air, the promise of on-line history education
Looking for something else I found the Smithsonian Institution’s on-line history of air passenger travel in the U.S., America by Air. I can easily see a time when a student with a computer terminal...
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Return to normalcy
For at least one hour this past week, the Bathtub got more than 11,000 hits. Who could have foreseen that a post about an ancient piece of pseudo-animation would catch the fancy of so many? I gather...
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Debunking the Nigerian scam, with grace and compassion
This person should be a diplomat; when I am a fool, I hope someone will puncture my balloon with as much wit, grace and caring. Oh, yeah — it’s another story about librarians, wouldn’t you know?
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“Network of the Lincoln Bicentennial”
You’ve got to love C-SPAN. Commercial television networks spend billions purchasing rights to be the sole broadcaster of sporting events, the Superbowl, the World Series, the NBA championships, the...
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Finding our place in the world
The exhibit is gone, but the memory, and the on-line educational features still remain. Spectacular digital map of Africa, showing current development. Map copyright by Allan Sluis, courtesy of NAVTEQ...
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Texas Tribune and Texas State Board of Education
Have you found Texas Tribune yet? It’s a new, on-line newspaper, and generally it’s terrific. See their collection of stories already about the State Board of Education. The collection can substitute...
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MITx launches — new model for post-secondary learning?
We get press releases in the e-mail: MIT launches online learning initiative ‘MITx‘ will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available. December 19, 2011 Share MIT today...
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