WJC Technology

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

You may have noticed Google Maps users have sometimes posted photos in geographical locations that show up as clickable thumbnails to “explore the region.” After you click on one to enlarge it, you get a larger window, but after that….you can click again….. and in a new screen Panoramio opens and you get a panoramic slide show featuring Google Earth and Google Maps users’ photos.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10184954

I got these at home so can’t tell you that all will be available at school due to the filter:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/bios/

http://www.black-collegian.com/african/aaprofil.shtml

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/afroambios.html

http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/

http://mail.avon.k12.ct.us/~kbolch/blackhistorymonth

http://www.gpschools.org/ci/ce/multi/bhmes.htm

http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory

 http://edselect.com/black_history_month.htm

POETRY AND PODCASTS

Another inaugural poem, “American Baptism:”www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZ1AaZOnQo

Rosa Parks Tribute Poem (podcast):www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5039032

Author Interview-Kennedy Center Performing Arts Series (webcast):www.kennedy-center.org/education/pwtv

Becoming Billie Holiday interview and excerpts:www.wbgo.org/realfiles/jrnl2008/081219/article2.ram

Negro League Hall of Famers (podcast):www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237052

Reading at Peabody Library, Vanderbilt University: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/audio/2008/10/13/podcast-childrens-author-and-poet-carole-boston-weatherford.66262

SLIDE SHOWS

Slavery Slide Show: www.caroleweatherford.com/SlaverySlideShow.pdf

Jim Crow Slide Show: www.caroleweatherford.com/JimCrow Powerpoint.ppt

SLAVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom- Study Guide: www.tracievaughnzimmer.com/Moses.htm

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom–Author Q&A: www.caroleweatherford.com/moses.htm

Harriet Tubman Bookmark: www.caroleweatherford.com/MosesBookmark.pdf

SEGREGATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement: www.sitins.com/index.shtml

Birmingham, 1963 lesson ideas (page 24): www.plcmc.org/bookhive/NCCBA/NCCBABooklet2009.pdf

She Shall Overcome-School Library Journal interview: www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6515267.html

Rosa Parks Tribute Poem (podcast): www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5039032

TRUE ADVENTURES

Matthew Henson Reading Group Guide: www.walkeryoungreaders.com/2003/wbcontent/books/henson/HensonOwensGuide.pdf

Leadership Lessons from the Black Lifesavers: http://www.caroleweatherford.com/leadership.htm

SPORTS

A Negro League Scrapbook: www.caroleweatherford.com/baseball.htm

Pledge to Remember the Negro Leaguers: www.caroleweatherford.com/mso26248.pdf

Negro League Hall of Famers (podcast): www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237052

Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive-Reading Group Guide: www.walkeryoungreaders.com/2003/wbcontent/books/henson/HensonOwensGuide.pdf

JAZZ

Black Music Timeline and Discography: www.caroleweatherford.com/jazz_lesson_plan.htm

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane-Study Guide: Coltrane study guide

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/activityguides/9780805079944AG.pdf

Becoming Billie Holiday-Reading Guide: www.becomingbillieholiday.com/billieguide.pdf

Billie Holiday Book Club Event Guide: www.becomingbillieholiday.com/LadyDaysLiterarySalon2.pdf

Becoming Billie Holiday interview and excerpts (podcast): www.wbgo.org/realfiles/jrnl2008/081219/article2.ram

NOTE: found this site at home so I am unsure whether it can be accessed on school computers.

http://www.teachertube.com/

It had to happen: the extension of the YouTube model to YouTheTeacherTube. This site, unaffiliated with the online video-sharing powerhouse, is a Web bazaar for teachers to browse and post professional-development videos. Viewers can learn everything from how to teach electromagneticism to the best tips for creating an in-class laser show to the mathematics of musical-instrument strings. One of the most popular videos is of Mrs. Burke rapping a math lesson. In garb that would please the Sugar Hill Gang, she breaks down the two most important principles of geometry in rhymes and signs (it’s more entertaining than it sounds). TeacherTube doesn’t have the expanse of YouTube (yet), but at least you won’t have to weed through endless clips of kittens chasing string.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

The site offers teachers in grades preK-12 rich passageways into the arts, health and fitness, math, language arts, and social studies, and pays special attention to early-childhood educators, library media specialists, and technology coordinators. Though the lesson plans are free, the site also offers the option of purchasing award-winning PBS documentaries — with curricula — such as Eyes on the Prize, seven discs of America’s civil rights story. A hearty “Hurrah!” from teachers for PBS’s effort.

http://www.hotchalk.com/mydesk/

NBC has opened its news archives to teachers via the HotChalk interface. Created exclusively for K-12 classrooms, the archives date to the early 1930s and include more than 5,000 video resources, with an emphasis on U.S. history. Steve Capus, president of NBC News, explains, “In many ways, through our reporting and coverage of world events, we write the first draft of history every day.” As first drafts may show biases and be incomplete, it is often students who, with a greater understanding, come to revise them. In releasing these first glimpses of history past and present, NBC tenders a wonderful gift to education and to progress.

The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that

• inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology
• engage students in the excitement of learning
• enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance

eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.

http://www.emints.org/

http://www.mrdonn.org/

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/integ_tech_lessons.htm