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Diocese of Harrisburg Teacher's Conference September 30, 2009 **
 * Integrating Technology Into the Social Studies

=Primary Sources=
 * Primary sources allow students to act like historians as they search for and evaluate first-hand accounts of historical events.
 * Can lead to development of historical thinking skills.
 * Online primary sources are referred to as digital primary sources.
 * Their availability has the potential to shift social studies instruction from teacher-centered to student-centered as they can encourage students to find the answers to questions.
 * Also allow history teaching to go beyond the textbook.

Where to Find Digital Primary Sources?
American Memory Project Valley of the Shadow Digital History Project History Matters

=Using Images= [|Flickr Creative Commons] [|Flickr] [|Google Images]

=Using Videos:= Discovery Streaming TeacherTube

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Stat Planet ScribbleMaps Gapminder-
 * Maps and Map Skills**
 * New York Times Immigation interactive map** - Learn about where various groups of immigrants came from

Sheppard Software Geography Games - They also have other social studies materials Geography Quiz - Take the quizes I like to Learn- Kids Geography Games: Purpose Games
 * Games**

=History:= National Park Service Web Rangers Smithsonian Virtual Tour Studying the Holocaust Harpers Weekly Online Discovering Lewis & Clark Civil War Preservation Trust

=Current Events= Today's Front Pages - Newspaper from pages from around the country and the world Newsmap- Sort and filter news color coded blocks that represent articles on the Internet News Map- click on the country and retrieve a list of articles about that nation BBC NewsMap- Click on the marker and get the link to the story Cable in the Classroom

=**Timelines**= XTimeline: Example of timeline about Lenin: Dipity - grabs items from other sites and compiles them on a timeline: Timetoast - create and share timelines: Hyperhistory

=Other Resources= Thinkfinity Teaching the Civil War with Technlogy Civil War Sallie