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APU History Program

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.

Teaching Global Studies with Technology Workshops at Harvard University

In 2010, EdTechTeacher will be offering a four part workshop series in conjuction with four area studies programs at Harvard University. These face to face workshops will occur once a month at the ends of January, February, March, and April. Each workshop pairs content instruction in a global region from Harvard faculty with technology intergration instruction from Tom Daccord and Justin Reich. The workshops will be held at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and they cost only $20 each! Graduate credit from Framingham State College is available. We hope that many of you can join us. To learn more and sign up, visit Teaching Global Studies with Technology Workshops Series at Harvard University - Tom Daccord

New Lesson on Haiti from Choices

Our friends at Choices have a new Teaching with the News lesson up on Haiti, sure to be helpful for those of you teaching the crisis. Visit our History Today page to learn more and find the link.- Tom Daccord

Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology
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"Regardless of content area or level of expertise, Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers is an extremely valuable resource for teachers hoping to realize the tremendous opportunities that technology offers for powerful learning in the twenty-first century classroom."
-Alan November

The Best of History Web Sites
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The Best of History Web Sites is the quickest path to a rich variety of content, including multimedia presentations, lesson plans and activities, primary resources, interactive quizzes and games, virtual tours, maps and more. Unique to this print resource are easy-to identify content categories, grade level recommendations, and two special introductory chapters.


Teaching with Technology Workshops.
Learn about EdTechTeacher's "Teaching for the 21st Century" Professional Development programs and our summer teacher workshops. Tom Daccord and Justin Reich travel to schools around the country and abroad and we offer technology integration workshops each summer in the Greater Boston area. Teachers leave our workshops with techniques and lesson plans that they can use in their classrooms the very next day.

Learn about our workshops.

Teaching for the 21st Century
Professional Development Program
Our EdTechTeacher 'T21' program provides cohorts of teachers the opportunity to develop their technology integration skills over a one year period with coaching and support of educators who have extensive experience teaching with technology.

Participants in the program leave with a greater confidence in their computing skills, practical approaches for integrating technology in the curriculuthoughtful computer use in their schools.

T21 program details

EdTechTeacher.org is dedicated to helping teachers incorporate technology effectively into the classroom. Our goal is to use technology to creative active, student-centered learning communities.

We not only write and speak about technology, we practice what we preach! Our projects have been showcased across the country.

Our technology integration projects and activities engender student creativity & empowerment.
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