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It's important for teachers to consider how best to use social networking for professional development.
Here are 10 basic guidelines of personal use of social networking sites for faculty:

1. The first rule is treat others online as you wish to be treated online!
2. Introduce yourself - existing members, and potential colleagues, will often reach out to you.
3. Use the same username on different platforms - it’s easier to communicate and establish contacts if you keep the same name.
4. Upload a… Continue

From Tom Daccord and Justin Reich's 2007 presentation at NCSS Annual Conference;

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This interdisciplinary creative writing/historical simulation activity calls on students to research the plight of homeless teenagers during the Great Depression and then create their own fictionalized account of a day in the life of a Hobo. Students posted their story on their blog and read each other's work. Students commented by articulating what they liked about the story they read -- and what made it seem authentic. Students were then interviewed in character and recorded as part of a "1930… Continue

Recollections of WWII is a directory of oral history collections and projects in the UK which contain recorded memories of individuals who lived through WWII. The collections include interviews with servicemen and women from many nations, evacuees and refugees, people who experienced the home front, and Holocaust survivors. The site is independent and non-profit and has been created to provide a resource for historians, students and researchers… Continue

A boon to researchers and educators, Google has opened up the Life magazine photo archives to the tune of two million photos, dating from the 1750s to today. It plans to enter all 10 million images from Life's photo library and they can be viewed by anyone on the Internet.
Google said they can be printed for free as long as they are not being used to make money.

Life's archive is a tremendous gateway to memorable events and individuals i… Continue