Interactive+American+History+Websites

=**[|innovation3 Interactive American History Sites Post]**= = = =**Transcript of Cover-It-Live Post for American History Teachers**= (Note: Some links may need to be revised. Leave a comment if you can help and I will edit on this page.)

Jamestown website at [|nationalgeographic.com] 10:06 Interviews from different perspectives - colonists and native americans...can we call them Indians? 10:07 American Rhetoric - **[|www.americanrhetoric.com]** - online speech bank. 5,000 full text speeches and videos. Huge repository 10:09 Looking at Gettysburg address as example. Shows written text, picture of Lincoln, original draft. Audio is recorded by historians with emotional music. Very cool. 10:10 Doesn't appear to have a search feature. More directory style 10:13 Viking Voyage - can use interactive map to follow voyages of Vikings with rich multimedia content clickable along the way. From http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/vikings/home.html 10:13 [Comment From Dennis] Learning a lot of useful things about American History? 10:14 This is going to be great info for my Am. History teachers.

10:14 Hi Dennis.

10:15 [Comment From Guest] Hi John I'm at an apple workshop. 10:16 10:16 [Comment From Guest] I'm going to pass this live blog onto our Am. history teachers in Falmouth. 10:16 Cool, hope I can capture the magic!
 * [|constitutioncenter.org/constitution]** - visual navigation of entire constitution. Hyperlinked, can drill down on specific phrases

10:17 [Comment From Guest] Where are you? 10:18 [|americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory] - Price of Freedom - Plays a Who am I? game. 10:18 I'm in room 12A on 4th floor 10:19 Can learn about individuals in the Civil War through their job descriptions 10:19 @Guest - WHO are you? 10:21 [Comment From Guest] I'm in your twitter network. Superintendent in Massachusetts. 10:22 [Comment From Guest] I'm at an Apple workshop with my Director of Curr & Instruc. 10:22 [|lewisandclark.state.mt.us] - look at pictures and diary entries of Lewis describing what he sees 10:23 10:25 Love the way the Brits talk about history..gives me goosebumps
 * [|bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars]** - English perspective (audio, video) of conflicts

10:26 on to next speaker... 10:26 got it dennisar. now I know who you are! 10:28 [|mdroots.thinkport.org] - Exploring Maryland's roots - can read along and hear text read. Hitting all learning styles. Can translate to more modern language so kids can better understand meaning. 10:30 same site, can create a civilization/sim city world. Very interactive. Will your crops die or your house get torched? 10:30 Underground railroad - **http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/**- hope I typed that in right 10:31 [Comment From dennisar] Looks like a lot of interesting links. What % are primary source? 10:32 @dennisar - not sure. lots of adaptations and dramatic readings of primary source texts. More slicked up interfaces might be more engaging than digging through government archives.

10:32 [|pathways.thinkport.org] again - Maryland and the underground railroad 10:33 [Comment From dennisar] Are you in Maryland? 10:34 Listen to passages (primary sources?) Following footsteps of slaves and their stories. Use them as writing prompts with visual, audio and text. 10:35 @dennisar you'd think! Maryland has an amazing Am. Hist. site!

10:37 Figure It Out - still on MD site. Answer questions using interactive activities 10:39 Secrets signs and symbols - pathways.thinkport.org/secrets - can design a quilt using symbology to get messages to slaves attempting to escape. 10:43 10:43 Texas Senate kids- 3d tours of the capital building 10:44
 * channelone.com/resources/specials/bl...... long url** - interactive timelines - showing stuff for Black history.
 * [|animatedatlas.com]** - mostly

[|nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor] - accounts of witnesses to attack. interactive maps to click on. timelines, radio reports. Really nice stuff. 10:45 10:46 VR movies of holocaust - can't read url.
 * [|ushmm.org/googleearth]** - Darfur layers within GE.

10:46 and we're done

10:47 email palnaum@lisd.net and they will email you comprehensive list. 10:49

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