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I constantly hear from teachers and students working on multi-media projects that it’s difficult to find good history related images. If that’s you, you need to check out Pictorial Americana by the Library of Congress. It’s an online database of images from early America up to 1899. The best part?
Images are presented for educational [...]

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Stephen Veliz over at Teaching in Tallahassee reminded me earlier that Geography Awareness Week is coming up during the week of November 16-22 and suggests that
it has never been needed more than now. Geographic illiteracy has swept across our nation over the past several decades. Consider the 2006 Roper study on geographic literacy:
Young Americans answer [...]

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Earlier this week, I popped off about pre-service teachers. That perhaps those college kids with the most potential to truly impact learning are making conscious choices to not be educators. That we’re losing kids who could be great teachers because they sense that perhaps they wouldn’t fit the typical mold of the K-12 educational system.
And [...]

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Already one of the most documented elections in history, The Google folks, together with PBS, have created the Video Your Vote youtube channel. Millions of videos have already been posted that document the democratic process in all its glory (and messiness!).
The Video Your Vote channel hope is simple:
we want this to be the most transparent [...]

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I’m a bit grumpy today.
(Sliced off part of my thumb cutting onions for a hamburger fry two days ago and it’s just been a pain trying to get things done left-handed.)
So . . . I’ve got grumpy things to say. It’s okay to disagree.
People have been suggesting for sometime that as soon as the latest [...]

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