Web+2.0+Tools

There are countless ways to create content on the web. Here are a few cool and useful sites for you to check out and hopefully enhance your curriculum! Please note: EVERY SITE HERE IS FREE!!!

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If you have others you would like to explore, by all means proceed. The point is for you or your class to be the producer, not the consumer of content. //**
 * // Note: If you have other resources that you feel should fit here, by all means add them to the list.

__The following links are provided by Web 2.0 Guru:__ (PA Standards - [|Arts and Humanities] [|Civics and Government**] [|Geography] [|Economics][|History])
 * [|Humanities] learn about humanities
 * Genealogy Projects - [|My Heritage] and [|It's Our Tree]
 * [|History Channel] History events and programs
 * [|America on the Move] - historical tours of American history
 * [|HistoryNet] - tons of historical information here!
 * [|Factbook] - a wonderful collection of facts from all over the world
 * [|Calisphere] - history events and more
 * [|Smithsonian's American History] - a ton of great resources, search by topic and even time period
 * [|Library of Congress]
 * Chronology of US Historical Documents
 * [|Free Federal Resources]
 * [|National Council For the Social Studies]
 * [|PBS] - Social Studies
 * [|Curricular Resources] resources for curriculum concepts
 * [|Kathy Shrock's Page] resources for the history needs
 * [|On This Day] events from dates in history
 * [|ePals]- create cultural classroom exchanges with ePals email and blogs
 * [|Taking IT Global] create cultural awareness with networks, groups and events in TIG
 * [|TWICE] -Two Way Interactive Connections in Education
 * History Interactives - [|PBS], [|Digital History]
 * Time line Creators - [|Viygo], [|xtimeline] , [|dipity]- create free online timeline generators.
 * World Atlas [] Discovery's Interactive Atlas
 * [|World Atlas] - interactive atlas
 * [|Altapedia] - online color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
 * [|Scribble Maps] - create overlays on Google Maps - annotate and more!!! A+++
 * [|EconEdlink] - economic resources and lesson plans
 * [|Google Earth]
 * Economics []
 * [|Historical Aniversaries]- every date and all of the events
 * [|Mapme]- create collaborative maps of any location and share it in Google Maps.
 * [|Election 08 on Twitter]
 * [|Open Congress]- all you ever wanted to know and follow about Congress
 * The Oyez Project - US Supreme Court cases free audio, download, holdings and more.. A++
 * [|ShowWorld] - a new global perspective compare populations, energy, products, technology and more... watch the globe change
 * [|Track This Now -]track any event around the world and read the varied perspectives on the top
 * [|The Living Room Candidate -] digital archives and information about presidential candidates
 * [|World Wide Panorama] - panoramic photos or tours from all over the world
 * [|Ancient Egypt] - learn about ancient Egypt
 * [|Xpeditions] - National Geographics interactive activities, lessons, resources A+++
 * [|Maps of War] - get real information and locations about any War
 * LegSim - legislative simulations
 * **Interactive Atlases** - [|http://www.alov.org/sample/world.html] - when country is clicked it changes color
 * [|http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-atlas.htm]
 * [|http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/] very nice with tons of detail
 * [|http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/maps/interactivemaps.html]
 * [|http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/]
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 * [|UUorld] - explain the world in maps
 * HSI - where History and CSI collide, student solve case studies about historical events. A great tool!