by TeachCivilWar | Jun 14, 2009 | Famous Civil War People, Lesson Plans
Here is another cool use of VoiceThread for your classroom. Melanie Lewis is an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher in Virgina and has created a webpage called Lincoln Loved Learning. Mrs. Lewis has taken several images from the life of Abraham Lincoln and...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 7, 2009 | Lesson Plans
Wesley Fryer of the Moving at the Speed of Creativity Blog visited the Confederate Memorial Museum in Oklahoma and while touring the museum he took photographs of the various displays and then used Voicethread to post a narrated slide show to his blog. Check it out...
by TeachCivilWar | May 12, 2009 | Lesson Plans
Mr. T, an 8th grade American Cultures teacher at Hershey Middle School, is the author of the American Cultures 2.0 blog. While reviewing his blog recently, I noticed that he has developed two great uses of Web 2.0 technologies for teaching the Civil War. The first one...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 29, 2009 | Civil War Related Websites, Lesson Plans
I’m starting to use Google Earth more and more these days for different projects and presentations. So in addition to previous posts related to Google Earth, I was looking around for some resources today and happened onto the Pennsylvania Civil War Trails...
by TeachCivilWar | Mar 30, 2009 | Civil War Related Primary Sources, Lesson Plans
As many of you know, the Library of Congress has a website called Selected Civil War Photographs. This page makes browsing the photographs easy because they have a Search feature, a Subject browse, or you can look at photos from each year of the War. There is also...
by TeachCivilWar | Mar 21, 2009 | Civil War Related Videos, Lesson Plans
I have to admit right up front that I am not a big user of YouTube. I have viewed some clips that people have sent me but I’m not a regular user. That being said, someone sent me a link the other evening to a video of a Civil War Fife & Drum...
