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New Twines Created

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Image via Wikipedia

To honor families during African American History Month, I have created a new space at Twine to collect and share tools to inspire digital history projects: Family Stories.

Family Stories was started with 25 links to sites that show examples, lesson guides, or tools for the creation of online collaborative projects such as timelines, mapping, oral histories and digital slideshows or scrapbooks.

Twine is used for organizing, finding, and sharing information. Twines can be used for your personal interests and projects, or with groups and teams. Creating a Twine takes just a few seconds. Then you can invite others to join.

A second Twines that I’ve started is Brain Matters: Research Implications for the Education and Training of Teens.

You are invited to join in to build these collections, to locate other interests or to create your own Twines!

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TimeSearch

TimeSearch “Search the Web through Timelines” (and surprise yourself with what you find.)

Thanks to Zemanta for citing this new startup as a popular article. From TimeSearch’s results, you can move to related Google or History World items. You can also browse single search timelines, picture search or go to places in history.

History World is “an ever expanding history resource to Make history Make sense.”

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Picturing America

Teachers can check out the 40 art prints and resource book from the AHS Media Center.

Gallery view:
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=gallery

Select “Search” (at left) to view the study prints by number order:
The name of the artwork and artist are displayed beside the print.

Select “Themes” (at right) to view the study prints by categories:
Leadership
Freedom & Equality
Democracy
Courage
Landscapes
Creativity & Ingenuity

Picturing America was presented to each school in the Barrow County School District by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and is distributed in collaboration with the American Library Association.