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Create PPT projects to use as assessments with students.
Analyze iPod/iPad Apps. for Education: iTunes U, iBooks, USA Manual, Common Core, War of 1812, iAmerica, USA Manual, US History Timeline, First Hand History of America & World Figures just to name a few.
Align projects with NYS Social Studies Standards & CCLS
About Teachinghistory.org
Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. History education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible
Prezi is a communication tool that helps you organize, present, and share your ideas.
One of the greatest innovations in education was the blackboard. For the first time in history, teachers could present their lessons visually and engage students to participate in the conversation. The whiteboard has done the same for business—helping us to explore and share ideas more effectively.
Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas.
A famous NYS History web portal by Ms. Susan Pojer from Horace Greeley HS in Chappaqua, NY. This web portal has a ton of information to sort through. WARNING!! It just may take years to sift through everything she has on here!
About PowerPoint Palooza
There are over 220 PowerPoints located here! These presentations range in size from a dozen or so slides each to over 145 slides. Several PPTs contain large sound/music files. Therefore, they may take a while to load. Be patient! Save them, modify them, use them in your classrooms as you wish, BUT please do NOT run the PPTs from the site. Download them and save them on your own hard drive, it will provide a much smoother flow.
About Edutopia
Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement the strategies below. These strategies -- and the educators who implement them -- are empowering students to think critically, access and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and communicate with clarity and impact.
Apps are the future in education. There is an app for everything nowadays. We will use some common iTunes apps and iTunes U Resources on iPads & iPods: