New Month of May

April was a busy month with spring semester coming to a close and I did not have too many posts. I am hoping to deliver a new post once a week.

I wanted to share a list of education websites I have been putting together for educators. I am designing the list specifically for history educators but many of the websites apply to teachers within all fields. Please take the opportunity to go through the list and possibly visit some of the links. I encourage people to offer suggestions of worthy sites I do not already have on the list. I would like this list to grow and be continually updated. You can also see my contact information provided on the top so you have numerous ways to reach me. Check out my technology blog I created for a class this past spring where you can find course readings and reflections.

Jean O’Keefe – twitter: jeanoke16 – jeanoneducation@bogger.com – jeanonteched@blogger.com – jeanoke@gmail.com – (312) 259-5576

http://www.khanacademy.org/ Learn the flipped classroom approach and access educational teaching videos

http://zinnedproject.org/ Howard Zinn: A People’s History - Resources, Activities, Lessons

http://docsteach.org/ : National archives of documents/primary sources with some with accompanying lessons

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ : radio, television, podcast archive

http://www.choices.edu/ : history and current news for the classroom

http://www.icivics.org/ : The Democracy Lab

Lessons and interactive games (students can award the points they are in games to service learning projects who then get funded by organization)

http://www.antiprejudice.org/: Prejudice. Discrimination. Stereotypes.That’s what we fight.Students. Schools. Community.

www.donorschoose.org: award teachers money needed for classroom projects

www.rethinkingschool.org : organization with great publications and resources on how to reform schooling

www.prezi.com: create presentations similar to power point
http://www.evernote.com/: online note taking system

www.carbonite.com: backup everything online for a price per year

http://hootsuite.com/about organize all your social and professional networks here so you have one spot to view them all

http://www.zotero.org/ tool to help you collect, organize, site, and share you research sources

http://www.xtranormal.com/ if you can type you can make a movie with animated characters

http://www.socialstudies.org/cufa College and University Faculty Assembly

http://www.go2web20.net/ web 2.0 tools

http://education.washington.edu/cme/ Center for Multicultural Education (Seattle, Washington)

http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=253340431943588608 Summer Seminars: Professional Development NEH

http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html Workshops: Professional Development NEH

http://www.fpri.org/education/historyinstitutes.html Foreign Policy Research Institute: History Institute for Teachers