TAH-TECH

**...﻿** ...  ...  Log on to the CREC-TAH twitter account at [] (user name CREC-TAH, password crectah) and search for information on the TAH topics you studied this past year and/or for information on pedagogy. Identify two-three individuals or organizations that you could follow to increase your knowledge of these topics. Determine whether or not this would be a useful teaching tool. || || **....**  ...
 * [[image:ExploringNewFrontier.jpg width="304" height="43" align="center"]] || //Anne Raymond, July 2011// ||
 * =[|Popplet]= ||  ||
 * **Popplet** is a clever mind-mapping, brainstorming, and idea-collection and display app that makes it easy to gather your thoughts and accumulate many groups of ideas in individual “popplets.” Each popplet you create consists of one or more sets of linked “popples,” which are rectangles of any size that can include drawings, photos, and text. - MacWorld
 * Assignment:** Create a 5-6 slide popplet that relates to your TAH studies this past year. Include images and text || [[image:Popplet_Sample.jpg width="208" height="126" align="center"]] ||
 * =[|YouTube]= ||  ||
 * ** Illustrative YouTube videos: **
 * [|The History of Slavery in America], [|Surviving the Holocaust], [|Evaluating Videos]
 * Assignment:** Find YouTube videos that relate to your TAH studies this past year. Identify at least one that you could use with your students. || [[image:You_Tube.jpg width="156" height="78" align="center"]] ||
 * =[|National History Education Clearinghouse]= ||  ||
 * Designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom by making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible.
 * Assignment:** Explore the website. identify 2-3 resources that you could use in in class and/or in preparing lessons
 * Other sites:** **[|National Holocaust Museum]** || [[image:HistoryEdClearinghouse.jpg width="255" height="82"]] ||
 * =[|Twitter]= ||  ||
 * Developed as "a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Twitter has quickly become a popular new form of online communication with over 300 million registered accounts and an estimated 200 million tweets a day.
 * Assignment: **
 * =[|Apps]= ||  ||
 * An abbrievation for application, the term apps is now commonly used to describe small programs that can be downloaded from sources such as iTunes and run on mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, Blackberries, etc. As of July, 2011 there are an estimated 425,000 apps available through iTunes and a record number of 15 billion apps have been downloaded. Truly a force to be reckoned with.
 * Assignment:** Explore and evaluate the history related apps provided for you. Using the Apps icon explore what else is available through iTunes. How might you use apps for your learning and/or your teaching? || [[image:one-billion-iphone-apps.jpg width="165" height="87"]] ||
 * ==[|Podcasts and iTunesU]== ||  ||
 * According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a podcast is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player" The generally accepted definition has expanded to include video as well as audio.
 * Assignment:** Explore iTunesU through iTunes and podcasts through iTunes or other sites to get a sense of the vast amount of information that is available through this technology. Identify at least one iTunesU program and a podcast related to the TAH topics you studied this year that would be of interest to you. Determine whether or not these resources would be useful as a teaching tool. || [[image:itunesU.jpg width="126" height="126" align="right"]][[image:podcast.jpg width="88" height="87" align="left"]] ||