Made to Crave - Ch 1 Reflections

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lifecoachingforchristianwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/made-to-crave1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.lifecoachingforchristianwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/made-to-crave1.jpg" width="134" /></a></div>I just started reading <a href="http://madetocrave.org/" target="_blank">Made to Crave</a> a few days ago.  I'm only two chapters in, but I've decided to document the chapter reflections here.  If you've read this book, <b>please </b>feel free to give your feedback!  If you'd rather not follow along - I understand that as well.<br /><br />I'm going to steal the cover's tagline, because it summarizes what this book is about perfectly.  Made to Crave is about "satisfying your deepest desire with God, not food".<br /><br />I bought this book months ago and had it on my 2012 reading list.  It's 2012 the last time I checked, and so this baby was next on my list!  <br /><br />I think some of these questions at the end of the chapters are a little cheesy, but I'll go with it!<br /><br /><b>Chapter 1 - What's Really Going On Here?:</b><br /><div style="color: #351c75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #351c75;"><i>1. If you could personify your cravings based on your experience of it, what form might it take?  Would it be like the little orange Weight Watcher mascot (remember him?)  or would it take a different shape?  Describe what your craving looks like and how it behaves.  If you could sit down and have a conversation with this craving, what do you think it might say to you?  What questions would you want to ask it?  How do you imagine it might respond?</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.framestore-cfc.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero_720x406px/public/work/weightwatchers_showdown_30_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://www.framestore-cfc.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero_720x406px/public/work/weightwatchers_showdown_30_02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Honestly, I'd say when I think of what my craving might "look" like, I think of the devil!  You know that devil/angel shoulder thing like you see in the movies?  I think of it exactly that way - the devil whispering in my ear to "go ahead and eat that entire bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!"  There is always that tiny voice in the back of my head saying, "You don't need that Hilary".  But then, when the craving comes on strong, it's as though adrenaline starts pumping through me.   I <i>have </i>to do whatever I can to satisfy that craving, despite the little "angel" telling me I don't need it.  If I had a convo with this character, I'd imagine he (yes, definitely a man!) would be trying to convince me to eat all the wrong things in all the wrong quantities.  However, I wouldn't even want to converse with the bastard - I'd tell it to get lost!  I'd imagine him slithering away into the darkness, kind of like Ursula in The Little Mermaid - no doubt to reappear again later in another guise.  It's kind of hard to tell the devil to go to hell when he's already there!<br /><div style="color: #351c75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #351c75;"><i>2.  How do you respond to the idea that God made us to crave?  Have you ever pursued a craving that made a positive contribution to your life?  What do you think distinguishes that kind of craving from the craving that leads you to eat in unhealthy ways?</i></div><br />As you can see, these questions are loaded! :)  I agree with what the book says.  From a religious standpoint, I agree that we are made to have a 100% desire/craving for God, and nothing else.   But we are sinners, and that's just not how it is unfortunately.  I hope that one day I can look back and say, "I wasn't passionate about my current job, so I decided to pursue a career where I can help people - nursing - and it has made ALL the difference!"  That would then be a great example of where pursing a "craving" paid off in a positive way!   I think the distinction between positive impact "cravings" and negative/sinful ones is the ease at which they can be accomplished.  It's not hard to give in to a food temptation at all.  However, trying to pursue your dream career, your passion, that takes work and dedication and perseverance and faith - it's not a quick fix!   Anything worth having is worth working hard for!<br /><br /><i style="color: #351c75;">3.  If it's true that we're made to crave, how might it change the way you understand your cravings?  Do you believe there could be any benefits to listening to your cravings rather than trying to silence them?  If so, what might those benefits be?  If not, why not?</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgZ8I7yooqoeE0ekx3R6RgwFbDblpMRVc0oh1Z6Z2aBxv0T1Chejh2kZiZY7aQbJQVJKdez1tqkAzEZBw692ZpqoWTRUhQjr8sQDbaRPfk_A3PZ3zpkQCisFIYzKfC_YZnRmyY9JnZY8/s1600/does+this+serve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgZ8I7yooqoeE0ekx3R6RgwFbDblpMRVc0oh1Z6Z2aBxv0T1Chejh2kZiZY7aQbJQVJKdez1tqkAzEZBw692ZpqoWTRUhQjr8sQDbaRPfk_A3PZ3zpkQCisFIYzKfC_YZnRmyY9JnZY8/s320/does+this+serve.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br />I guess this is about realizing that it's not necessarily a bad thing that we have this emotion, this <i>desire</i>, within us that causes us to crave things.  The distinction is <i>what </i>we're craving and <i>why</i>.  So, we don't necessarily need to say to ourselves, "I wish I didn't have any cravings at all!"  We just need to crave the right things for the right reasons.  I think there is a huge benefit to listening to your cravings.  For example, I know I crave sweets a lot, but it's usually due to boredom, stress, sadness, loneliness, etc.  I really should be address those emotions, instead of drowning them out with food. <br /><div style="color: #351c75;"><br /></div><div style="color: #351c75;"><i>4. The Bible describes 3 ways Satan tries to lure us away from loving God: cravings, lust of the eyes and boasting (1 John 2:15-16).  Lysa explains how Satan used these tactics with both Eve and Jesus (in the book).  Using the list below, think back over the last 24 hours or the last few days to see if you recognize how you may have been tempted in similar ways.</i></div><i><br /></i><ul><li><i><b>Cravings</b>: meeting physical desires outside the will of God.  In what ways were you tempted by desires for things such as food, alcohol, drugs or sex?</i>  We have a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop near our house.  We just recently visited it for the first time!  WHAT A MISTAKE!!  Now every time I drive past it I have an intense desire for a glazed doughnut!  </li></ul><br /><ul><li><i><b>Lust of the eyes:</b>  meeting material desires outside the will of God.  In what ways were you tempted by desires for material things - clothing, financial portfolio, appliances, vacation plans, cosmetics, home decor, electronics, etc?  </i>Confession: I LOVE shopping.  This one is right up my alley.<i>  </i>What keeps me "in line" is that I refuse to go into debt, so I don't have a problem in that I have credit card bills that are never paid off.  However, that doesn't mean it's not a problem at all!  I have a nail polish addiction, and just this past weekend I caved and bought 2 Nicole by OPI polishes.  Didn't need them at all - but I gave into that desire.  There is nothing I need right now at all, but I desperately wanted to go clothes shopping and jewelry shopping this weekend.  I did a quick scan in Target of the jewelry and left with nothing (thank God!).  But yes, this is a problem for me.</li></ul><ul><li><i><b>Boasting: </b>meeting needs for significance outside the will of God.  In what ways were you tempted by desires to prop up your significance - perhaps by name dropping, exaggerating, feigning humility or other virtues, doing something just because you knew it would be observed by others, etc? </i> I am a flowery story teller, also known by most as "being dramatic".  It is a weakness - I want validation from my listeners that my story is enticing.  While this wasn't mentioned in the book, but can we say Facebook?  I mean, isn't that what FB is about anymore?  Posting pictures in order to boast about your life.  I'm guilty of this too!</li></ul><br /><i>Of the 3 kinds of temptations, which is the most difficult for you to resist?  Which is the easiest? Why? </i> The most difficult to resist is a tie between cravings and lust of the eyes.  I love shopping and I love eating.  It's a very close tie.  The least is boasting.  I would actually rather operate my life with integrity and humbleness and I have some great mentors who behave that way.  I just need to get there too.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuphC0493hl_30JbTQfdevrls5YUBHMyEP9iCbtUUAioI313J25ZYV_m1SSH2lrPTf_7p_MhECvRy5axelJ_GmDg8DrTpqb9YwsDUfZH61k7F-Oxzk1E0iQ6Y7BIeI80FkIENRJBTyvaE/s1600/live+in+such+a+way.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuphC0493hl_30JbTQfdevrls5YUBHMyEP9iCbtUUAioI313J25ZYV_m1SSH2lrPTf_7p_MhECvRy5axelJ_GmDg8DrTpqb9YwsDUfZH61k7F-Oxzk1E0iQ6Y7BIeI80FkIENRJBTyvaE/s320/live+in+such+a+way.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #351c75;"><br /></div><i style="color: #351c75;">5.  Jesus quotes the truth of Scripture to defeat temptation.  Have you ever used Scripture this way?  What was the result?  How do you feel about the idea of using this approach to address your unhealthy eating patterns?</i><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span> I have actually used this in the face of fear.  When we had the earthquake last year, I feel as though I had PTSD over it.  In fact, I'm still not over it, a year later.  The only thing that got me going to work again was writing down scripture on notecards and reciting them to myself on the way in to work.  Yes, it helped a GREAT deal.  It got my butt to/from work each day, and I couldn't have done it any other way.  I think I need to take this same approach to addressing my food cravings - no doubt I would yield the same results!<br /><br />I'm actually glad that I took the time to go through these questions, as much as I dreaded this :).  I learned a few things and I hope you did too!<br /><br />I hope your Monday went smoothly! <br /><br /><br />

Made to Crave Made to Crave - Ch 1 Reflections

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THE DARK SIDE OF GEO-THERMAL ENERGY

<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">I left Camp Galilee on the shore of Tahoe Saturday afternoon headed East on 50. From Fallon to Austin is one of Nevada’s loveliest drives. The red sun was setting behind me, then I went over a summit, down the hill, and the sun was gone leaving a pink sky in my rearview mirror. Darkness fell, then rain showers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Arriving in Austin around 9 p.m. I booked my room in the Pony Canyon Motel as usual, brushing aside the desk clerk’s disclaimers “no air conditioning” etc. “I’ve been here before,” I assured him. I have. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then I sauntered downtown to find everything closed! Everything! The only establishment with its lights on in the whole town was the Chevron Station. Austin was disturbingly dead on a Saturday night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sunday morning began with breakfast at the Toiyabe. Suzie the waitress has figured out I am not a tourist. I actually belong there, just occasionally. Then my time at St. George’s was great as always – Holy Eucharist plus a pregnant lady blessing afterward. The priest is going to be a grandma.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">After the service, we had lunch at the Toiyabe (best Ortega Burger in the West) and I learned why the town was so dead. It seems there were bar fights in different bars on Thursday and Friday nights. Austin has three bars so it sounds like two were closed by the fights and the other must have closed in solidarity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">As Rev. Darla, who also serves as the 9-1-1 Dispatcher, said, “”Austin has been stuck on a full moon for two years.” There has been one official knifing and there are rumors of an unofficial knifing. The bar where one of our church folks does his pastoral outreach is at odds with the bar where another spends some time. There was an altercation between a bar owner and a bartender involving law enforcement. What is going on ?!?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is actually a non-lunar explanation. It is the dark side of geo-thermal energy. For over a year, Austin was overwhelmed with well drillers and construction crews putting in a new geo-thermal plant – guys with quite a bit of money, way too much time on their hands, and no one to spend it with.  So they swept like locusts through the social milieu of Austin – then left. Things are still out of kilter. But St. George’s is there like a lighthouse. Austin will come to itself in awhile.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">I told the church folks I regretted not having arrived a night earlier so I could have attended the ruckus in the bar, feeling sure I could have been of some help, perhaps offering a pastoral intervention. They were not sure such an intervention would have been helpful. But I told them the story of how I had seen one Austin bartender go back to the kitchen, fetch a Bible, and fling it onto the bar appealing to Scripture to settle a dispute. They had not seen this side of him. But when I explained he was using the Bible to dissuade a patron from breast reduction surgery, they could imagine it. As I had wondered at the time, they wondered now what chapter and verse might address the cosmetic question. Indeed, the patron had asked this and the bartender told her she had to read the entire book. You can’t take verses out of context. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The afternoon drive down the Big Smoky Valley was just as engaging as the drive from Fallon to Austin. It is a variable and compelling landscape. The gasoline at the only station in Carvers is more than 30 cents cheaper than the gas in Austin. Something odd in that I think. Austin is high. Carvers is not low.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">There was rain in the Valley yesterday. Several times I even had my wipers on high. Not the norm. But when I turned right on 6 and drove on into Tonopah, it was desert weather again. In downtown Beatty, I slowed from 25 to 20 to allow three burros cross the street. I don’t know if they were wild but they were certainly unattended. They reminded me a bit of Chevy Chase, Gene Wilder, and Martin Short in The Three Amigos. They looked amused by it all. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">On through Cactus Springs and Indian Springs. Eventually the distinctive skyline of Las Vegas appeared in the distance and, as always, the closing words of Gilgamesh came to mind, “Lo, the walls of Uruk.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>

THE DARK SIDE OF GEO-THERMAL ENERGY

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/History-What-was-it-like-for-children-to-live-in-the-Second-World-War-3009087/">History What was it like for children to live in the Second World War - Resources - Share My Lesson</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is a set of 12 lessons about what it was like for children to live in the second world war. I love this set of lessons because it builds empathy and helps teach the story of world war 2 from a child's perspective.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ww2">ww2</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/resourcedetail.aspx?storycode=6080276">9/11 Handouts - Resources - Share My Lesson</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">The first handout on this page is a good overview of the timeline of 9/11.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Writing-Film-Review-World-Trade-Centre-6031566/">Writing Film Review - World Trade Centre - Resources - Share My Lesson</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">September 11 is coming up. While it is still very hard for many of us to even talk about this day, we have a whole 11+ years of our students who have no memory of this event. As teachers, we must get ourselves together to discuss and teach this event. As I've been reviewing the content on the share my lesson website, I've found a piece that I may consider in my own classroom, the world trade center film review piece. It has several films including "Saving Private Ryan" but also the film "World Trade Center" which would make for a good piece to use in the classroom.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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Software QA Engineer (Austin, TX)(C#, C++, .Net, QA, Testing) (#108521)

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Software QA Engineer (Austin, TX)(C#, C++, .Net, QA, Testing) (#108521)

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TURKEY’S SYRIAN POLICIES

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYpp4GJk2LuMS_irkrnZ01yuiVaL-vgs-MDJ1VrhQ7P0HcCFtd2qR7KbaP9ydcygj2QOIrZNuuIQmVem1_On06u400uFTMZpKzvSqi5VgTgEC7f_hivfKFahzXVOt7aslGPVWluaowmHz/s1600/alevi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYpp4GJk2LuMS_irkrnZ01yuiVaL-vgs-MDJ1VrhQ7P0HcCFtd2qR7KbaP9ydcygj2QOIrZNuuIQmVem1_On06u400uFTMZpKzvSqi5VgTgEC7f_hivfKFahzXVOt7aslGPVWluaowmHz/s320/alevi.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Halil M. Karaveli, via </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So far, however, TURKEY’S intervention in the SYRIAN civil war has demonstrated how TURKEY’S lack of “democratic depth” disables a constructive foreign policy in the service of stability and democratic reform in a region that was supposed to be TURKEY’S “strategic depth”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On August 11, U.S. Secretary of State <b>Hillary Rodham Clinton</b>, on visit in Istanbul, and her TURKISH colleague <b>Ahmet Davutoğlu</b> stated that the two countries are intensifying their cooperation in handling the crisis in SYRIA. The UNITED STATES and TURKEY are to set up a working group tasked with responding to the crisis, notably preparing for a worst-case scenario, the <b>use of chemical weapons</b> by the SYRIAN regime. <b>Clinton</b> and <b>Davutoğlu </b>also stressed the importance of preparing for a political transition in which vital state institutions in SYRIA are not compromised (which was the case in IRAQ after the fall of <b>Saddam Hussein</b>).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">US ENVISIONS: NEW SYRIAN GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL SYRIANS, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RELIGION OR ETHNICITY. NOBEL WISH BUT UNREALISTIC </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But although the U.S. and TURKEY both want to remove President <b>Bashar al-Assad</b> from power, there are nonetheless differences between the AMERICAN and TURKISH approaches. A new SYRIA, said <b>Clinton</b>, will need to protect the rights of all SYRIANS regardless of religion, gender or ethnicity. The TURKISH government is yet to issue a similar statement.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY SIDES EXCLUSIVELY WITH SUNNI REBELS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While there is growing concern in Washington that <b>Islamists</b> are gaining influence among the <b>Sunni rebels</b>in SYRIA – and increasingly also over the fact that ethnic and sectarian divisions are being exacerbated as the civil war grinds on – Ankara has so far desisted from speaking up in defense of ethnic and sectarian pluralism in SYRIA; <b>siding exclusively with the Sunni rebels</b>to whom it lends crucial support, political, logistical and military, TURKEY has positioned itself not only against the <b>Baath </b>regime, but also against the <b>Alawites</b>, from which the SYRIAN state elite is mostly drawn, and against the KURDS. Representatives of TURKEY’S ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) routinely denounce the SYRIAN regime as the “<b>Alawite minority regime</b>”, while the aspirations of the KURDS, who are manifesting a determination to take charge of their own destiny in northeastern SYRIA – in the region that borders TURKEY and the KURDISH-governed NORTHERN IRAQ – is condemned in the strongest terms by Ankara.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKISH POLICIES REGARDING SYRIA COULD BACKFIRE </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeking to bring about regime change in Damascus, Ankara has unleashed forces that it is having increasing difficulty coping with; in fact, the implosion of SYRIA puts TURKEY at an impasse: if nothing is done to prevent ethnic and sectarian divisions in SYRIA from getting further out of hand, these threaten to engulf neighboring countries, including TURKEY. Yet the remedy – a democratic SYRIA, where <b>Sunnis, Alawites, Christians, Druze; Arabs</b>and KURDS, are all equally accommodated – would also be a challenge to TURKEY, as it would encourage its own ethnic and religious minorities in their quest for constitutional reform and equality.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deniz Baykal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, the former leader of the main opposition party, the <b>Republican People’s Party </b>(CHP), and a member of parliament, recently called for a constitutional overhaul in order to prevent a SYRIAN contamination in TURKEY. <b>Baykal </b>argued that the <b>Alevis</b>, the country’s heterodox Muslim minority – <b>who are estimated to make up a fifth of the population</b> – must be constitutionally recognized and treated with due respect by the state. The former CHP leader pointed out that the <b>State Directorate of Religious Affairs</b>, which tends solely to the needs of the <b>Sunni</b> majority, needs to be reorganized in order to accommodate the <b>Alevis</b>. However, the ruling AKP remains unresponsive to the <b>Alevis’ </b>requests, notably rejecting their demand that their temples (“cem houses”) are recognized officially (<b>Alevis</b>don’t pray in mosques). Prime Minister <b>Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</b> recently remarked that “if we are Muslims, our temple ought to be one and the same”, and the speaker of parliament turned down the request of an <b>Alevi </b>member of parliament that a prayer room for <b>Alevis</b> be provided in parliament as a sign of official recognition.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY'S GAMBLE ON KURDISTAN OIL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-erratic-foreign-policies-all.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEYS SECTARIAN PREJUDICE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMMTLRNQWZiLubqp48zmW3mKAI2hPPWVzXPvWhDa_klSPDlQnnwyJEgzaSv4QhqV3T0w11HMIDkSdTUpfixuQJFu7e5LhxwueOx_dgYUnoOD3j161ChtGfllE5kFGtxkT9ZwJc1o5CHZC/s1600/142998355.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMMTLRNQWZiLubqp48zmW3mKAI2hPPWVzXPvWhDa_klSPDlQnnwyJEgzaSv4QhqV3T0w11HMIDkSdTUpfixuQJFu7e5LhxwueOx_dgYUnoOD3j161ChtGfllE5kFGtxkT9ZwJc1o5CHZC/s320/142998355.jpeg.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While the ruling <b>Sunni </b>conservatives of TURKEY reject the demands of the <b>Alevis</b>, ostensibly on the grounds that there are no differences between <b>Sunnis</b> and <b>Alevis,</b> they nonetheless do not refrain from singling them out as “the other”, even as non-Muslims, playing on the prejudices of the <b>Sunni </b>majority; that the <b>Alevis</b> are not really Muslims was indeed the implication of <b>Erdoğan’s</b>not so innocent remark that the mosque is the only temple for true Muslims. In the same interview, <b>Erdoğan</b> also referred to an Alevi temple that he had had bulldozed during his tenure as mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s as a “monstrosity”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As evidenced by the fact that representatives of the TURKISH government and the AKP routinely refer to the enemy in SYRIA as “<b>Alawite</b> minority regime”, there is a clear tendency to frame TURKEY’S intervention in SYRIA in sectarian terms; conjuring the image of a battle for the emancipation of the faithful Muslims from the oppression of the heretics cannot but fan sectarian prejudice and even hatred against those that are portrayed as related heretics. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hüseyin Çelik</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, a deputy chairman of the AKP, suggested that the critical stance taken by <b>Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu</b>, the leader of the CHP, had to do with his <b>Alevi</b> creed: “Why are you defending the <b>Baath </b>regime? Is it perhaps because of sectarian solidarity that Mr. <b>Kılıçdaroğlu</b> is endorsing the SYRIAN regime?” inquired the deputy chairman of the AKP.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In fact, the TURKISH and KURDISH <b>Alevis (Kılıçdaroğlu</b> is an <b>Alevi Kurd</b>) should not be confused with the <b>Arab Alawites</b>, or the <b>Nusayris </b>as they are also known; the latter are estimated to make up a third of the population in TURKEY’S Hatay province that borders SYRIA and around fifteen percent of the populations in the neighboring provinces Adana and Mersin. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: Alevis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> from TURKEY are commonly confused with <b>Alewites</b>from SYRIA and vice versa. For more background information regarding above mentioned subject see: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 5pt 31.5pt 7.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ALAWITES IN SYRIA AND ALEVIS IN TURKEY: CRUCIAL DIFFERENCES</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3284/alawites-syria-alevis-turkey</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is among those, Arab <b>Alawite </b>populations that the TURKISH intervention is SYRIA is provoking anger. The much more numerous TURKISH and KURDISH <b>Alevis </b>meanwhile, are not so much in solidarity with the Arab <b>Alawites</b> in SYRIA as they are vulnerable to the foment of <b>Sunni</b> resentment against presumed heretics. <b>It is above all in that sense that TURKEY’S entanglement in SYRIA, on the side of Sunnis, courts danger at the home-front; as Sunni conservatism is kindled in order to buttress the legitimacy of the TURKISH policy, tension is produced along the Sunni-Alevi fault line.</b> On July 29, the house of an <b>Alevi</b> family in the eastern province of Malatya was attacked by a <b>Sunni</b> mob, a reminder that sectarian tensions simmer dangerously.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THREE STATE DISINTEGRATION OF SYRIA – SUNNI, ALAWITE-CHRISTIAN AND KURDS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIVzmnlaa_m2oSccTZ8J3TaqrMNXmbbxCUTp7XmSHfuVXwRhG7-oNR-vjdPLPZ9cJet6JhVikTT33Bit6X9Dh2v-QASThZl6kqAQFZQN1UqclUrrJnLc7M6cSlLBRMaDhnfkbWwAmaAXG/s1600/new-syria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpIVzmnlaa_m2oSccTZ8J3TaqrMNXmbbxCUTp7XmSHfuVXwRhG7-oNR-vjdPLPZ9cJet6JhVikTT33Bit6X9Dh2v-QASThZl6kqAQFZQN1UqclUrrJnLc7M6cSlLBRMaDhnfkbWwAmaAXG/s320/new-syria.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The not so improbable disintegration of SYRIA – possibly into three states, <b>Sunni, Alawite-Christian and Kurdish</b> – would conceivably present TURKEY with a new challenge in the future, if alienated Arab <b>Alawites </b>in Hatay were to be inspired by the emergence of an adjacent <b>Alawite </b>state. However, much more portentous for Ankara is the emergence of a <b>self governing KURDISH region in northeastern SYRIA. </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ASSAD HAS PLAYED THE KURDISH CARD AGAINST A TURKEY THAT IS TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since mid-July, SYRIAN government forces have vacated the KURDISH-populated districts in the northeastern part of the country, effectively abandoning control to a coalition of KURDISH parties, among which the KURDISH nationalist <b>Democratic Union Party (PYD)</b> is the best organized. According to some accounts, a quite agreement had been reached between the al-<b>Assad</b> regime and the PYD. In any case, the SYRIAN regime and the KURDS are effectively allies, as the <b>Sunni</b>rebels are opposed to the KURDISH demands for equality; and by letting the KURDS set up a self governing region <b>al-Assad</b>has played the KURDISH card against a TURKEY that is trying to bring him down.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ankara has reacted sharply to the developments among the SYRIAN KURDS. <b>Erdoğan</b>warned that TURKEY would intervene were the KURDS to make any attempt to create an autonomous region; the TURKISH military would in that case cross the border and establish a buffer zone, <b>Erdoğan</b>vowed. TURKEY regards the PYD as the SYRIAN arm of KURDISTAN Workers’ Party (PKK), and fears that the area will become a safe haven for militants staging attacks in TURKEY. The leader of the PYD, <b>Salih Muhammed Müslim</b>, denies that the party has any organizational ties to the PKK, or that TURKEY is its enemy, and assures that no attacks will be staged across the TURKISH border. The SYRIAN KURDISH leader invites TURKEY to get over its “<b>KURDISH PHOBIA</b>” and institute a close relationship with the KURDS in SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">KURDISH MARCH TOWARD AUTONOMY GAINS MOMENTUM</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDO8eNrXWuf1M1daMLBspztTsM0o-lS7TrMpRp9OyoBUa0R8yaiMf-qlgE2XBAY9cmfscofe7GK74DFUh-CkH727xANQgzRu9oDQfKid5GXWm4okfAdbB08H2vZgj9c651s39sKu33q9tj/s1600/dist-kurdish.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDO8eNrXWuf1M1daMLBspztTsM0o-lS7TrMpRp9OyoBUa0R8yaiMf-qlgE2XBAY9cmfscofe7GK74DFUh-CkH727xANQgzRu9oDQfKid5GXWm4okfAdbB08H2vZgj9c651s39sKu33q9tj/s320/dist-kurdish.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The relationship that TURKEY has come to enjoy with the KURDISH regional government in NORTHERN IRAQ – an entity that was long viewed by Ankara as a threat to its vital security interests – could indeed serve as an example to emulate, but such an evolution of the relations with the SYRIAN KURDS is less likely as the KURDISH march toward autonomy gains momentum. That is bound to have significant cross-border repercussions in TURKEY, boosting the morale of the TURKISH KURDS and further raising their expectations; indeed, the emergence of a KURDISH region in SYRIA could prove to be an even more important game-changer than the establishment of KURDISH autonomy in northern IRAQ has been, since the ties of kinship and family are stronger between the KURDS of SYRIA and TURKEY.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The establishment of a <b>Sunni</b> conservative, <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> regime in Damascus – which can be expected to be opposed to the KURDS’ demands for equality, as that is the position of the <b>Sunni Arab</b>rebels – may be an exciting prospect for TURKEY’S ruling Sunni conservatives. But Ankara’s calculus could nonetheless change with the growing realization that <b>al-Assad’s</b> fall may not be as imminent as has been assumed, and that TURKEY stands to suffer from the ever more destructive effects of a prolonged civil war that ultimately brings about the disintegration of SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">To play a constructive role in SYRIA, TURKEY needs to transcend sectarian and ethnic divides, reaching out to the <b>Alawites</b>and to the KURDS, endorsing a pluralistic post-<b>Assad</b> nation. So far, however, TURKEY’S intervention in the SYRIAN civil war has demonstrated how TURKEY’S lack of “democratic depth” disables a constructive foreign policy in the service of stability and democratic reform in a region that was supposed to be TURKEY’S “strategic depth”.</span></span></div>

TURKEY’S SYRIAN POLICIES

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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/porsche-pavilion/">Porsche Pavilion</a> in Wolfsburg, Germany by HENN Architekten:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/porsche-pavilion/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Aug12-20.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/dose.html">BMW Plant Leipzig</a> in Leipzig, Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/25/image01.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><i>Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture</i></a> and <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><i>Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse</i></a>, both by Aaron Levy and William Menking:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/20/architecture-on-display-and-four-conversations/"><img alt="this week's book review" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/levy-menking.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's book review" width="510" /></a><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><b>**NOTE: The next weekly dose will be 2012.09.10. Daily doses will still be happening in the interim.**</b><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">World-Architects.com U.S. <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/projects/reviews/41">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/37729_lakewood_garden_mausoleum">Lakewood Garden Mausoleum</a> in Minneapolis, Minnesota by HGA Architects and Engineers:<br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/37729_lakewood_garden_mausoleum"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://www.world-architects.com/files/projects/37729/images/Lakewood01.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features Porsche Pavilion in Wolfsburg, Germany by HENN Architekten: The featu...

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54 Teaching and Lesson Plan Ideas for History Teachers #sschat

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99175982@N00/6362481725" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="World War I Medallion" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="208" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6116/6362481725_702772e515_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 240px;">World War I Medallion (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99175982@N00/6362481725" target="_blank">elycefeliz</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>Since I've recently given a set of my curated plans for math teachers, English teachers and general common core standards (see end of this post), I thought I'd share some lessons for history teachers. If you're a history teacher and not following #sschat on Twitter, you should.<br /><br /><ul class="diigo-linkroll"><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/History-What-was-it-like-for-children-to-live-in-the-Second-World-War-3009087/">History What was it like for children to live in the Second World War - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a set of 12 lessons about what it was like for children to live in the second world war. I love this set of lessons because it builds empathy and helps teach the story of world war 2 from a child's perspective.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ww2">ww2</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Writing-Film-Review-World-Trade-Centre-6031566/">Writing Film Review - World Trade Centre - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">September 11 is coming up. While it is still very hard for many of us to even talk about this day, we have a whole 11+ years of our students who have no memory of this event. As teachers, we must get ourselves together to discuss and teach this event. As I've been reviewing the content on the share my lesson website, I've found a piece that I may consider in my own classroom, the world trade center film review piece. It has several films including "Saving Private Ryan" but also the film "World Trade Center" which would make for a good piece to use in the classroom.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/resourcedetail.aspx?storycode=6080276">9/11 Handouts - Resources - Share My Lesson</a></div><div class="diigo-description">The first handout on this page is a good overview of the timeline of 9/11.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sept11">sept11</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/resourcecalendar.aspx?nbday=0&nbmth=6&nbyr=2012&evcode=2901">World War 1 Lesson plans</a></div><div class="diigo-description">June 28 is the anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1. As you discuss this topic, here are some activitiesa and lessons to help you. There are some "causes" activities to introduce World War 1 that may interest some social studies teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/92906299.html">“If I Were President…” CR Middleschoolers Headed to Regional Speech Contest | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News</a></div><div class="diigo-description">The woodmen of the world had a "if I were president" competition sometime back, but I think since this is an election year, it is time to bring back some sort of competition like this to our students. You can see the recording of this student's speech on this news media page.This might be a great activity for the fall or even as a summer assignment to begin researching and writing speeches.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/taxonomySearchResults.aspx?keywords=olympics">Search for olympics teaching resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">If you want to teach about the Olympics, the TES forum out of the UK is where the great content is being uploaded daily. There are two activities of note, one is Olympic Games: Now and then and another is about Greek Ideas and what has been passed down. Many interesting lessons by grade level.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/olympics">olympics</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6211708">In the news this week - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Topical studies are great. The London Marathon just happened and  marathons are increasing in popularity here in the United states. Here is a video about the marathon, but also lesson plans about the Battle of Marathon, information on training to improve fitness and just what it takes physically to train for a marathon. Health and history lessons here.<br /><br /></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pe_teacher">pe_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/health_teacher">health_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/health">health</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.steampunkemporium.com/steam.php?__utma=1.1127246098.1334865184.1334865184.1334865184.1&__utmb=1.11.10.1334865184&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1334865184.1.1.utmgclid=CNyIlqfYwa8CFQW0nQodzi2KaQ|utmccn=(not%20set)|utmcmd=(not%20set)|utmctr=steampunk%20costume&__utmv=-&__utmk=123485963">Steampunk Emporium -- Steampunk Clothing from Gentleman's Emporium</a></div><div class="diigo-description">I have to bookmark this site just for me. This Steampunk emporium has such great period clothing (had to buy some for a project for my child) that I just had to bookmark and share it. It took a good 30 minutes of searching before I found it. Great costumes and cool things to use if you're talking pioneer or early 1900's.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/costumes">costumes</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/steampunk">steampunk</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/drama">drama</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/History-WWII-Plans-3008041">History WWII Plans - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a lesson plan for younger students (grades 1-4) for discussing World War 2. There are lesson plans here. One is "how has life in britain changed since 1948" which could be used for any age in the US because often our documents focus on a US centric view. The other is "what was it like for children in world War 2" which is a fascinating way to approach this with any children. </div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplan">lessonplan</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elemchat">elemchat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/History-Skills-Bias-with-the-Simpsons-6192481">History Skills (Bias) with the Simpsons - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Using the Simpson's teach about bias and history in this middle school activity that includes interactive whiteboard resources, movies, and a handout.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplan">lessonplan</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.dipity.com/">Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A website that lets you find and create timelines. Powerful tool for history teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://animoto.com/play/dbG5XpDJn10OmZXikyqLjw">Animoto - Flat Classroom Project: Perspective Detectives</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This pitch for the project Perspective Detectives by Cynthia Sandler, one of our current class of Flat Classroom certified teachers completely left me awe struck and excited. Wow! What do you think? What a history project!</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom">flatclassroom</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globaled">globaled</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xxh-sS8Qoco">100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Minutes) - YouTube</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dare we do such a thing? 100 years in 10 minutes. Yes. It is on YouTube. This video is going viral. If you had to compile your last 20 years in 2 minutes or your 80 year life span in 8 - what would make it? This is one to watch and share. It is a bit upsetting as you see the war and devastation but I have to wonder if those are the things we remember.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/mypublicprofile.aspx?uc=1457079&page=1&SFBC_FilterOption=8">Holocaust Resources</a></div><div class="diigo-description">In the UK, Holocaust Memorial Day is the 27th of January. This is something that we should all discuss and cover in an age appropriate way. Actually, I have permission and show Hotel Rwanda to my class. I want the students to understand and know what happens in the world and that all it takes for bad things to happen is for good people to do nothing.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/holocaust">holocaust</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Holocaust-worksheets-6036661">Holocaust worksheets - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dyslexic friendly resources for teaching about the Holocaust.Notes and handouts.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/KS3-History-McCarthy-Trials-6047895">KS3 History - McCarthy Trials - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Talk about the McCarthy trials using archived film from the 1950's. </div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Series-of-3-lessons-on-Vietnam-War-6088861">Series of 3 lessons on Vietnam War - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Lesson plans about the vietnam war. This is a UK document and may give you different perspectives in your studies. Worksheets, powerpoints, and documents to use with this 3 lesson. It includes a lesson on military tactics.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Ending-Slavery-An-Unfinished-Business-6117426">Ending Slavery: An Unfinished Business</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is a lesson plan that you can use as a starting point if you choose to involve your classrooms in the movement to end slavery in the world. Could you imagine if we could leave a legacy of this one thing. Our job is to speak for the helpless and to encourage empathy and understanding for others in this generation of children. It isn't all about what you can get, but about what you can give. This booklet is out of the UK. "The antislavery movement was the first major campaign in Britain to involve ordinary citizens across all classes (as well as the slaves themselves) in the struggle to end the practice. As such it is a good example of how change can come about when people work together for a just cause. This booklet More…intends inspire and equip young people to take a stand against the continuation of slavery and injustice in the world today."</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/abolition">abolition</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Titanic-Timeline-6037947">Titanic Timeline</a></div><div class="diigo-description">As you think about next year, it is great to plan deep projects with historical meaning. As I was looking up things that happened 100 years a go in 1912, one jumped out at me. The Titanic Sunk on April 11, 1912. There are a ton of resources already available on this topic but it would make for an interesting project of some sort as the fascination with the event doesn't seem to have waned much.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/titanic">titanic</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6071622">TES collection World War II - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">This is an excellent set of world war 2 resources from the UK including videos and lesson plans. For elementary school.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGSf_xjFX0o&feature=related">Professor Boyer and class request Skype chat with Aung San Suu Kyi - YouTube</a></div><div class="diigo-description">I have a blog post about this going up on Sunday, but this Virginia Tech professor, John Boyer, used a youtube video to request a skype meeting with Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and on Monday they will be skyping at 7pm EAstern. Wow.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social">social</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/media">media</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_news">edu_news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=909">Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive | K12 Online Conference</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Dr. James  Beeghley (Jim as most of us know him) has a presentation on Wednesday at K12 online about how history and social studies should be taught using technology. He talks about early photography and a lot of other very cool thoughts that will certainly challenge the thinking and teaching of history teachers.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/freeresources">freeresources</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/researcher_thoughtleader">researcher_thoughtleader</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/War-pictures-powerpoint-6026060">War pictures powerpoint - Resources - TES</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Discussions of propaganda are great ones to have. Here you can see quite an assortment of World War 2 propaganda. Right now in the UK they are observing remembrance day so a lot of resources are being shared that we can use on this topic. It would be interesting to have students look for modern day propaganda? How about looking at US elections - do we have propaganda there? Just discussing that topic would be interesting.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-broward-school-supplies-20111028,0,3147055.story">Teacher Christina Lambard learned a lesson of her own this week when she tried to give her eighth graders a first-hand experience in "taxation without representation." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Taxation without representation lesson from history teacher Christina Lambard had parents calling the school to complain. A letter was sent home that said kids would be charged 25 cents a page and if unpaid they would get a zero. Usually the kids figure out the note is false. This year parents started calling the school before talking to the teacher. This lesson has been taught before without the hubbub . I think a bigger point here is that parents should learn to call the teacher first.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Education">Education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.trailmeme.com/trails/The_Story_of_the_Battle_of_Gettysburg">The Story of the Battle of Gettysburg on Trailmeme</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Trailmeme has a tool to let you "walk" through resources that have to do with a particular event in history. I haven't learned how this works yet, but thought you history teachers might take a look at it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org</a></div><div class="diigo-description">A student on netgened shared this with me based upon his topic "visual data analysis." This is an amazing repository of statistics shown in very cool ways. Great for social sciences.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/visualdatanalysis">visualdatanalysis</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://theweekinrap.com/">The Week in Rap</a></div><div class="diigo-description">EAch week the news of the week is posted in rap style format in a classroom-friendly format to this website. For government or current events - maybe this will help.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/currentevents">currentevents</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/technology">technology</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/vets">Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Veterans History Project Home page -- GREAT PROJECT!!!!</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-annotations"><li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner"><img alt="Veterans History Project" src="http://www.loc.gov/vets/images/vets-title.gif" title="" /></div></div></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.histografica.com/">HistoGrafica - Picture the Past</a></div><div class="diigo-description">For history teachers and others - a new online history museum for those who love history and want to share it.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://whscffshowcase.wikispaces.com/Social+Studies">WHS CFF Showcase » Social Studies</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Fascinating link for social studies and some samples. I LOVE how some web pages were inserted using bitty browser. What a cool tool. This site also features several dipity timelines. This is a GREAT site for history teachers to see.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/techintegrator">techintegrator</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2">web2</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators">Smithsonian Education - Educators</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence. This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/art_teacher">art_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government">government</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/professional_development">professional_development</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wowoftheweek">wowoftheweek</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/govt_business">govt_business</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/www_world">www_world</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ssch">ssch</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://gctgone.googlepages.com/home22">gctgone - A Place in Time</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Learn how to use Google maps and research to explore any point in history. This is a great lesson for history teachers from Cheryl Davis.</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Google">Google</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://culture.gov.au/">Australia's Culture Portal</a></div><div class="diigo-description">Australia's culture portal with tons of information about the culture of australia. Great for those living in Australia or studying about Australia. From Jo McLeay</div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_newapp">edu_newapp</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a><br /><br /></div></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-09-15T151705Z_01_N15182298_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SCIENCE-WRITING-DC.XML">Carved block may carry oldest New World writing | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.co.uk</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Oldest new world writing may have been discovered in Mexico.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome">Curriki - WebHome</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collaboration">collaboration</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/composition_teacher">composition_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/web2.0">web2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Website mentioned in time magazine article that comes out this week. Wiki based curriculum - first listed in November, but many people are talking about this.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/">BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/eelementary_teacher">eelementary_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>animated site for teachers. It is subscription but is a really fascinating way to augment what is going on in many traditional subjects with exciting web-based tools.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.eduref.org/">The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Thousands of lesson plans -- great place to share and look at information -- share this with all of your teachers!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/">A History Teacher: Dan McDowell</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/classroom">classroom</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:edtechtalk">for:edtechtalk</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Great lesson plans and webquests recommended by Bernie Dodge.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://umsimulations.wikispaces.com/">UMsimulations » home</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/creativity">creativity</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:edtechtalk">for:edtechtalk</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globalcollaboration">globalcollaboration</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/hz08">hz08</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/innovation">innovation</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature_teacher">literature_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/poetry">poetry</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/simulations">simulations</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/virtualworlds">virtualworlds</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>These are incredible simulations at the University of michigan where students are paired with K-12 students depending on the project and use creativity and writing to teach everything from history to the Arab Israeli conflict. Wow! Anyone can join.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/adamh/place_out_of_time">Adam Hellebuyck's Electronic Portfolio: Place Out of Time</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/online">online</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Place out of time simulation -- Arab Israeli conflict simulation.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://ppsblogs.net/brianmckee/2008/01/16/is-there-a-colonial-fair-fan-out-there-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-168">» Can Technology be Integrated with a Colonial Fair? Brian’s TRT Blog</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Brian wants ideas -- share. I posted on Classroom 2.0 recently asking for others to share ideas, and apparently not many have tried Colonial Fairs, or don’t associate them with technology. Has anybody done one with great technology ideas?<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.hippocampus.org/">HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum">curriculum</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elearning">elearning</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/free">free</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government">government</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/homework">homework</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/resources">resources</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Free help for all kinds of subjects. This is cool, I'm going to pass it along to my students.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/">Many Voices For Darfur » home</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/composition_teacher">composition_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfur">darfur</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfurposts">darfurposts</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/projects">projects</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialnetworking">socialnetworking</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>The projects that students are doing to add their voice to the outrage about what is happening in Darfur is amazing! Voicethreads, youtube videos, toondoos, zohonotebooks, blog posts... it is all here -- join in. Speak out!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://ed.voicethread.com/">VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfur">darfur</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/darfurposts">darfurposts</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pbl">pbl</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/projects">projects</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/voicethread">voicethread</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Voicethread about the genocide in darfur and adding voices to it. This is a fascinating method used by this teacher who had students analyze political cartoons and why they agreed or disagreed. Great project.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm">Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/art_teacher">art_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an amazing resource for art teachers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wow!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">World History : HyperHistory</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an important tool for history teachers to use. It timelines people, events, activities, and gives context for the things happening in the world -- a great place to discuss history.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.mapsofwar.com/index.html">Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maps">maps</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>A website that takes maps and uses them to teach all kinds of amazing history. These maps are excellent for demonstrating events that unfolded and trends and will allow for great conversation.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li><li><br /></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/index.html">The Library of Congress</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/government_teacher">government_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/librarian">librarian</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/libraries">libraries</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/library">library</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>The library of congress online. There are presentations, readings, and a wide range of information for teachers, assistive technology (audio tools). This is something all teachers should familiarize themselves with.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/">EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>First person accounts of almost any event in history. Empathy and teaching people how to see through the eyes of another is an important "sense of the conceptual age" (Pink) -- this gives you an empathetic view for history teachers.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Internet Archive: Wayback Machine</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/computerscience_teacher">computerscience_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/reference">reference</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>This is an archive that allows you to go "wayback" on almost any website -- this is great for discussing events of the last 12 years or so as well as the Internet in general and evolution of the Internet<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm">USA Geography - Map Game - Geography Online Games</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/educational_games">educational_games</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography">geography</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography_teacher">geography_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Cool website that tests on states, capitals, and geography.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies">iKnowthat.com - Online Multimedia Educational Social Studies (Geography and History) Games for Kids in Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary Grades</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/educational_games">educational_games</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geography_teacher">geography_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/librarian">librarian</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maps">maps</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Geography, History, and Social Studies page at I Know that -- a lot of map activities and other fun things along with a teacher's guide. Wow!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://mnemograph.com/app/viewer.php?uid=wright_brothers">Mnemograph :: remember, plan, learn</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tools">tools</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>A time line planner tool in beta test -- this is a really cool applicatin for history teachers. Fascinatinting.<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a><br /></span></li></ul></li><li> <div class="diigo-link"><a href="http://oceanofk.org/">Welcome to Ocean of Know</a></div><div class="diigo-tags">tags: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Import">Import</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/computerscience_teacher">computerscience_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/curriculum_director">curriculum_director</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary_teacher">elementary_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/for:wow2.0">for:wow2.0</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math_teacher">math_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a></div><ul class="diigo-comments"><li>Amazing project that has all types of materials in all subjects -- there are simply some amazing things to be found here! Math, interactive simulations for science and more!<span class="diigo-post-by"> - post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher">Vicki Davis</a></span></li></ul></li></ul><div class="diigo-ps"><br /></div><div class="zemanta-related" style="margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><h4 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles</h4><ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/89-lesson-plans-and-ideas-for-teaching.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/107143931_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/89-lesson-plans-and-ideas-for-teaching.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">89 lesson plans and ideas for teaching math - #mathchat</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/50-teaching-and-lesson-plans-that-rock.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/105130251_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/08/50-teaching-and-lesson-plans-that-rock.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">50 Teaching and Lesson Plans that Rock 8/7/2012</a></li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/common-core-standards-lessons-ideas-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/101135254_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/common-core-standards-lessons-ideas-and.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Common Core Standards: Lessons, Ideas, and Discussions #ccchat</a></li></ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=99a9c10f-381e-4434-8f14-a3600ceb0591" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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