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Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is a free, simple way to poll an audience. It is easy to set up a poll and to respond to a poll. Responses can be submitted via text, Twitter or the web. Poll Everywhere displays the poll results on a web page in real-time so you and your audience can follow along as the responses come in.
Pastelink
Pastelink is a great, easy way to share large files online. It is free to use and you do not need to sign-up or install software to use it. It is user-friendly and allows you to share files up to 250MB with others. If you sign-up you can share files up to 2GB. There is no limit to the number of files you can send. To use Pastelink, simply drag and drop the file that you want to share onto the Pastelink website and then Pastelink will create a URL for your file.
AASL – Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
The American Association of School Librarians has unveiled their “Best Websites for Teaching and Learning” list for 2012. All of the websites that have been selected are free to use. The website categories include Media Sharing, Digital Storytelling, Manage & Organize, Social Networking & Collaboration, Content Resources, and Curriculum Collaboration.
Map of Emergency Events
RSOE EDIS has put together an interactive alert map, based on data from Google Maps, that displays current worldwide emergency events. Emergency events include rail and plane accidents, floods, illness outbreaks, earthquakes and tsunamis, and nuclear events.
Middle East Protests: Country by Country
This is a neat interactive map of the Middle East from BBC News. When you click on a Middle Eastern country you are given information about the unrest and protests in that country.
LOC Primary Source Teacher Resources
The Library of Congress Teacher Page provides information for teachers who use use primary sources in the classroom. The information includes primary source classroom materials as well guides for using different types of primary sources in the classroom.
The National Archives’ Digital Classroom
The National Archives’ Digital Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans that make historical periods come alive for their students or choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed and are featured here.
EDSITEment
EDSITEment, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is great for educational material -suggested Websites and lesson plans – in literature/language arts, art/culture, social studies/history and world language.
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