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PBS LearningMedia wants to give you the tools you need to navigate and succeed in the digital age of learning. We’ve compiled a short list of favorite tec 
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"This learning module explores how the First Amendment shaped the civil rights movement. Delve into hundreds of historical newspapers, videos, photographs and more to find out how the five freedoms empowered people fighting for change — and those fighting against it. Individuals young and old, black and white, male and female, rich and poor became part of this movement. Some of their efforts succeeded; some failed. But everyone involved shared the belief that their voices and actions, supported by the First Amendment, had the power to change the nation."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Newseum has just released a new moduel that explores the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement. You will find: * An interactive timeline featuring videos, photographs and front pages from a variety of historical newspapers * A media map, allowing you to compare the front page of newspapers from across the country * Multimedia panels looking at contemporary civil rights issues * Standards designed lesson plans This website will help students historical thinking, media literacy and civic engagement. Students may also submit their work for display in the Digital Classroom.
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Are you interested in having your students create an RSA Animate style video? If so, this post is for you...and if you're not sure click through to the post to find links to ones at the RSA Animate site as well as one that students created. The author also raises a critical point: "Don’t just slap on a piece of technology, or in this case an RSA style video at the end just because you can. It won’t magically make your unit breathtakingly awesome. You really have to start off by asking why? Why is this tool or method necessary for the success of this unit?" For a look at why he chose to have students create an RSA Animate type video, or to learn how to do it in your classroom read on.
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Every year thousands of Americans keep the memory alive by reenacting Civil War campaigns and battles. Photographer Richard Barnes used period techniques to make authentic-looking images that include glimpses of the modern world. This site has a wide range of materials about the Civil War. The featured article discusses Civil War Battlefield Art. There is an art gallery, a photo gallery, a timeline from the Civil War to Civil Rights as well as an article on Civil War Battlefields.
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whenintime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice...
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"With TimeSearch you only need to say what areas or themes interest you, and at what period, before you discover what surprises history may deliver. A previously unknown event may turn out to be just what you were looking for. And it not only arrives with its own built-in search mechanism. It even lets you decide which site or sites you wish to search - for related information or images."
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Welcome to a post that examines an amazing free collections of educational digital interactive programs and apps. You are sure to find something that will fit your classroom in the very near future...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Michael Gorman shares 15 tools located at ReadWriteThink that work with Language Art classes, providing short descriptions. An additional 42 tools that are available on the website that focus on Language Arts (although some of them would work with other courses, such as the Timeline, Venn Diagram, K-W-L Chart, and ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool, so teachers across the curriculum may want to also check them out. In addition ReadWriteThink has 8 mobile apps (and seven work on iOS and Android, 1 in iOS only). These apps include three focused on poetry: Acrostic, Diamante and Themes Poems as well as Alphabet Organizer, Trading Cards, Venn Diagram, Timeline and Word Mover. If you have not checked out ReadWriteThink is it worth checking it out. To go directly to ReadWriteThink: www.readwritethink.org
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What will the next fifty years bring in the world of social media, mobile, robotics and more? Our fifty year timeline shows you just what could be in store
Beth Dichter's insight:
Technology changes at such a rapid rate that it is tough to look ahead and envision where it will be in five years let alone fifty years...but that is what this infographic does. This timeline focuses on digital and mobile as well as big data, and references are provided for the information.
Gary Faust's curator insight,
May 22, 2013 10:01 PM
Very interesting. Product development is possible, but the human brain has capabilities that a computer sill not surpass in that time. I doubt we understand the human brain sufficiently at this time to speculate about a computer's comparitive ability. Good ideas for science fiction writers, though.
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From the first known school (in the year 2000 BC) to the Apple iPad and beyond, it's all in this interactive history of education timeline. IWhen you click on an event additional information is available. According to this post there are 85 entries on the timeline and the plan is to continue to update it. To go directly to the timeline, brought to you by edhistory.com go to http://edhistory.com/.
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Storytelling Timeline built in Javascript. This new tool allows you to pull in media from different sources. You can create a Timeline by filling in a Google spreadsheet, or use JSON (which provides a more detailed timeline). It is an open source project, free to download, and provides best practice to use (as in keep it short, pick stories with a strong chronological narrative, and include events that build up to major occurences). There are also many examples to view.
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The social network is rolling out a revamped profile design called Timeline that makes a user’s entire history of photos, links and other items much more accessible with a single click.
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whenintime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice...
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Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of important events, or build a timeline of your vacation. It's all up to you.
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PBS is a great resource and this post from Mind/Shift highlights a number of their best resources. The grade range spans Grades 2 - 12, with a focus on Grades 6 - 12. Several also include professional development opportunities available online to help with a specific resource.
What are the resources? The list is below. For additional information click through to the post.
* How to Make an Interactive Timeline
* Technology and You
* How to Make a Prezi
* The Art of Creative Coding
* Engaging Students in Lecture and Labs
* Teaching Civic Engagement Using Social Media
* Educaching
* Changing Students Lives Through Tech
To access these materials you will need to join PBS (which is free). Remember, there are many additional resources available on the PBS website.