1. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/- Top 100 Tools for Learning
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html-Camtasia is a tool that will let you record on-screen activity, as well as edit and enhance it, and share it in high-quality to viewers anywhere. Useful to create training, demo, and presentation videos, aka screencasts.
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html- A screen capture tool. Capture anything on your screen. It can capture the content of a scrolling window. You can grab all the images on a Web page, menus using a time delay, or make a video of on-screen actions.
2. http://www.cbc.ca/history/
http://canadianmysteries.ca/en/index.php
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.davidrumsey.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=quebec
http://www.chronozoom.com/
3. http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/education?showsubtab=education
4. Crash Course - World History (YouTube)
http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&desktop_uri=%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
Excellent video series that might be very useful for teaching a world history or world religion course. Make for engaging hooks.
The Art of Battle
http://www.theartofbattle.com
Engaging step-by-step resource to teach ancient battles (relevant for CHW 3M). Can be paired with an activity in which they play out the battle using figurines/toys (anything really).
5. googleplus
wordle
jeopardy labs
discovery channel (cross word generator)
historica
McCord museum
screen cast
I-movie
kanmatube
edmodo
prezi.com
pintrest
piktochart
youtube
ojen/husta
padlet.com
autorap (app)
newsela.com
edutopia
google apps (quizzes/survey)
6. Online Resources for Canadian and Social Studies
What is it?
Why is it useful?
How would you use it?
Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Excellent online resources. Great for essay research.
polleverywhere.com
Ask a question (multiple choice). Students can send in responses via laptop, smartphone
browser, even texting.
wordpress.com
Blog that allows students to answer questions the teacher asks through a given unit, with
responses that tend to be more polished and thoughtful because they are out there for all their
peers to see. As a teacher, you can then have them base on essay off some of those
responses.
CBC Archives
Lots of video. Lots of lesson plans on there, too. A great deal of resources.
virtualhistorian.ca
Lots of primary sources. A great deal of emphasis on historical thinking.
simpsonsforteachers.wikispaces.com
Breaks it down by subject, including world history, politics, sociology, economics, psychology.
Includes full lesson plans centred around an episode or clip of an episode.
thememoryproject.com
Use it to book veterans to visit your class.
myspace.com or facebook.com or FakeBook (ex. http://www.classtools.net/FB/homepage)
Make up profiles of historical figures you want your students to learn about. Add music they
would listen to, posts, photos, friends and likes. Make it come alive.
Twitter Feed
Every day post what the students will be learning that day. You could potentially do a week long
(or longer) price stock thing with it leading up to the stock market crash.
Museum Blogs
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Holocaust Museum in Montreal
War Museum in Ottawa
besthistorysites.net
Tons of different categories.
Lesson plans. Resources.