Primary Sources from World Digital Library

 

A couple of Septembers ago I posted about this great site for primary sources.  To see the post click here.

There is a search box in the middle of the page but at the top left hand corner there is a drop down menu titled "Explore".  You will then have the choice to search by Place, Time Period, Topic, Type of Item, Language, Institution.  The other icons at the top are Timelines (which has a WWI timeline), Interactive Maps and lastly Themes.  

Factitious - Fake News or Alternate Facts

 

I posted about this site back in October 2018 (click here).  They now have a pandemic version of their site.  The website gives a news-story with its source and your job is to decide whether it is real or fake news.  I believe with what is happening south of the border this is very topical.  To see the website click here. 

Newspaper Map

 

Similar to last weeks Novels On Location, Newspaper Map shows you the map of the world.  You can zoom into a location and then click on the purple button to get the name of the newspaper there.  You can then click on that newspaper to read it.  You can also click up in the top left hand corner and put in the location you are interested in.  To see the website click here.

Metaphorically Speaking

 Good Friday morning.  Here is a little something for your English class.

Have a great weekend.

Novels On Location

 

Novels On Location is a website that allows you  to search the world map for novels that are located in a location that you are interested about.  You can click on the feather that is located on the location you are interested in and a text box will pop up to describe the book.  You can also query in the search box at the top.  To see the website click here.

Word Clouds

 

Yesterday I posted about "3 participation strategies for live video instruction".  One of the ideas is using Word Clouds.  I strongly suggest using Word Art.  I have posted in the past about Word Clouds.  Click here to see the previous posts.   To use Word Art click here.

3 Participation Strategies for Live Video Instruction

 

The following article from Edutopia has 3 strategies to help you with your online classroom and student engagement.  To see the article by Monica Burns click here.

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