As a source of teaching ideas &
resources
 Go to the casahistoria
Teachers home page section
History teaching
resources on the web
But perhaps you want to begin on a more
philosophical note? If so use:
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History Internet Guide
Based on a paper : "Using the Multimedia Tools of the Internet for
Teaching History in K-12 Schools" Presented at : Computers and
History 95 Conference: "Information Technologies for History Education"
for the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale et de la Formation
Professionelle Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg in 1995. Still
valuable, even if many links are now defunct.
Professional
development
Nowadays much educational research is published
on the web. You just have to find it. Most government education departments
now produce research/reports/materials for their teachers to use. Being on
the web they are open to teachers everywhere. The Australian State Education
systems produce excellent materials that can be adapted and used
elsewhere. In England & Wales there has been a flood of government funded
research projects - so much it is impossible to keep tabs on it. Here though
are a few places to look for furthering that history career......
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AHA: Resources for Teachers
American Historical Association articles on the teaching of History.
Articles on
Teaching Issues and Concerns takes you to some very interesting
pieces on the site
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Center for History & New Media
George Mason University's Center for History and New Media website
presents history and historians in an accessible and engaging manner.
Historians review their favourite (as well as most over-rated) history
books, little-known historical episodes are presented, and a variety of
other useful resources are available.
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DCSF Research
& Statistics Link to the index of general research promoted by the
UK education department.
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Guide to the UK paperwork
Read it as it comes out! Click to this casahistoria page.
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pbs teacherline
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the PBS teacherline provides
professional teacher development through more than 90 online facilitated
courses.
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Professional Digest:
a journal of research for history teachers. Links to articles that aim
to offer teachers easy access to up-to-date and relevant knowledge
relating to best practice and research, national and international, on
the teaching of history. The Digest is prepared for the Australian Govt.
by Prof. Tony Taylor from Monash University, Director of the National
Centre for History Education.
 casahistoria
home
visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
2. How the internet can be useful to
your students
Before you start to use the web for
research with pupils:
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also encourage your students to
look at the casahistoria student guide to using the web
with hints
on
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how to find information
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finding useful (free!) programmes to
help them use the web for their research
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how to evaluate a site they have found
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how to understand the evidence found
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how to cite web research
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how to keep on the right side of the
law - plagiarism & copyright
a.
Guided
pupil research
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These are sites you can
direct students to to do limited "open-ended" research on topics of your
choice. These sites include texts as well as contextual documents. |
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Spartacus is
the key one: give site references as primary research materials. Useful
for
ages 13+
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History on the net Basic
information on most topics but each section is also well supported by
links to further, detailed research elsewhere on the web. Pupils may
find the site navigation too fiddly.
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Teacher
Oz's Kingdom of History: A database of topically organized internet
resources for use by students, teachers, and others. Focuses mainly, but
not exclusively on U.S. History.
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Active History,
Interactive website with
useful activities, puzzles to KS3 & 4
(ages 11-16). This is a World War II page. (Unfortunately this does
require users to register now making it more cumbersome for class use)
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About.com sections on
history provide links to topic based sites for ages 14+.
Unfortunately in recent years the site has become more and more
cluttered with ads, making it less easy for students to navigate....
The key portals are:
e. To give (interactive?) information to
pupils and parents
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Course outlines. This is a well designed example of A level
courses and can be drilled down to expand on the requirements and
key points of the unit
f.
Articles suited to student ability
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John Clare This
is a sample page from the excellent site of John Clare. Note the
structured use of selected articles in the links section
g. Revision
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Self Test
from the John D Clare site
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 Spider
charts on Queen Elizabeth. These are uploaded as a pdf for
students to download. Current Office allows you to turn any document
into a pdf easily
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IGCSE Revision sheet with info and links to
tests/exercises from an earlier casahistoria page
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Year 13 GCE Alevel Cromwell Revision An
example of mine for a UK school, during pupil study leave (including
emailing of answers)
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IB, K12 & A level revision
Page of my revision links to note form
revision pdf's and sheets used in class during the year(someone
always loses that vital sheet at revision time!
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Remember, work
can be emailed to you or you can include simple
reply forms like these.
h. Record of
school visits
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but remember the niceties in your
own particular country & culture re anonymity & the portrayal of
minors.
Or combine all of the above into: |
i.
School resource banks
Here is how some other schools have built
up their own resource banks using the web. These might include selected
links that cover all or most of the web uses outlined in this
section.
Of course you do not have to actually build a site like this
to get the benefit - you can use a smaller page of your own and on
it ask your pupils to use these ones! That is how casahistoria
started.
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ITS
Tutorial College Example of a concise, clear &
straightforward listing of key sites/resources on a page in the
school website.
- Greenfield School History
site of John Clare. A sit to aspire to!
Designed for school use primarily and set out in a very
structured manner with each section having a basic narrative and
documents with links to key areas in the format of the current
guided learning UK style textbooks. (includes the exercises used
by the school - good practice!).
- KMLA
World History Site of the Minjok Leadership Academy,
a boarding high school South Korea. Provides potted
histories of key periods/themes/country histories.
One depressing fact is that when recently updating this page I
discovered that a large number of the original school sites used are
no longer active. Many closed when the teacher-designer moved
on - a factor to be borne in mind when designing a school site.
casahistoria
home
visit
caféhistoria for updates and current topic news
3. History, IT & the web:
the academic bit.....
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Center for History and New Media CHNM produces historical works in new media, tests their effectiveness
in the classroom, and reflects critically on the success of new media in
historical practice. CHNM's resources include a list of "best" web
sites, links to syllabi and lesson plans, essays on history and new
media, a link to their excellent History Matters web site for U.S.
History, and more. Resources are designed to benefit professional
historians, high school teachers, and students of history.
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Essays on History and New Media
Very useful from the CHNM. Covers all aspects from teaching
approaches to essays on web design. Scroll down...
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History Internet Guide
Based on a paper : "Using the Multimedia Tools of the Internet for
Teaching History in K-12 Schools" Presented at : Computers and
History 95 Conference: "Information Technologies for History Education"
for the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale et de la Formation
Professionelle Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg in 1995. Still
valuable, even if many links are now defunct.
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History
Teaching: Pedagogical guides
Links to articles from UK SchoolsHistory site
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The
growth of ICT
Towards a New Literacy
"ICT is now being regarded as a new literacy, as
important for the future of our students as reading and writing have
been previously" Article of University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate.
So how can I
use the internet in my teaching?
Link
to the casahistoria teacher support page
So you want to build an
effective website? Link to the
casahistoria teacher
support page
Excellent articles from
American Historical Association on History and IT:
Plagiarism
casahistoria
home
visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
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