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Empower Students to Take Ownership of Learning | TeachHUB Not new ideas but still useful and relevant to see them listed here
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Guide to Best 100 SciFi and Fantasy Books – Flowchart with Amazon Links A great flowchart that tries to illustrate the conceptual relationship between various SF and Fantasy titles.
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Cool Sites for ESL Students A lot of links and sites for ESL students. Offers links to sites by category – general, listening, speaking, grammar, reading, culture, etc.
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Motion Soup: The Best Animation, VFX, Motion Graphics on Vimeo. on Vimeo
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Study: The Brains of Storytellers And Their Listeners Actually Sync Up | 80beats | Discover Magazine Interesting study. Brains of people engaged in some communication/dialogue seem to sync up!
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The Millions : Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs Post by Nick Moran. “The platform is perfectly suited for dynamic storytelling, and as a direct result, it is home to some of the friendliest book lovers around. However, the site’s SEO (or lack thereof) is regrettably unkind to Tumblr outsiders, and this leads to two things. On the one hand, the insularity stokes the kind of kinship that makes its community so tightknit. On the other, the lack of easy searching reduces each blog’s chance of attracting new (or outside) viewers”
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INFOGRAPHIC : How To Create An Infographic | MakeUseOf Creating a quality infographic is not an easy task and not everyone can do it properly. Here is an infgraphic that tries to give a step-by-step guide to haw to create a better one.
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iPads in the Classroom – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything The site offers many great resources for all things to do with technology and iPads, Several websites linked for ipad apps and productivity tools. Site also contains: Concept mapping, information literacy, literacy in the digital age, online tools and other useful resources.
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Penguin Unfriends Libraries « Agnostic, Maybe The Penguin press release explaining why it has joined the other publishing companies when it pulled the rest of its catalog from Overdrive. tags: e-books publishers libraries Penguin
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librarian.net » Blog Archive » let’s be honest about the ebook situation
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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center – Cincinnati, Ohio The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is an organization focused on historical and contemporary slavery issues. It has an agreement to distribute educational videos electronically to K-12 schools. It includes virtual exhibits on the history of the Underground Railroad, links to journals, genealogical resources and discussions of the issue of contemporary slavery
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Slavery in the North A thorough website dedicated to slavery in the North written by published author and historian
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Featured Document: The D.C. Emancipation Act “On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to a conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called “the national shame” of slavery in the nation’s capital.”
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The Emancipation Act “On August 1, 1834, the Emancipation Act came into force, after fifty years of bitter debate in Britain over the morality and profitability of slavery. It did not abolish servitude, but it was the first significant promise of freedom.”
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Rising Sun, Maryland ~ History of the Mason-Dixon Line The Official Government Website of Rising Sun, Maryland
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Visualizing Slavery – NYTimes.com“The United States Coast Survey produced one of the first maps to depict census data-and a powerful demonstration of the geography of the slave-owning South.
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Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews (American Memory from the Library of Congress) The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings.
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Slavery and the Making of America | PBS “Slavery and the Making of America’ offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.” From the PBS organisation
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Slavery Images “The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public – in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.”
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Digital Library on American Slavery “Underwritten by a “We the People” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.”
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Africans in America | Part 1 | Resource Bank Contents Part of a larger site – the PBS overview of African American history includes excerpts from primary sources and documents related to all three topics.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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