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Join us on ITunes U
Looking for other ways to access Library of Congress resources? You can now find us on ITunes U. This site includes historical videos from the Library’s moving-image collections such as original Edison films, a series of 1904 films from the Westinghouse Works and original videos such as author presentations from the National Book Festival, the "Books and Beyond" series, lectures from the Kluge Center, and the "Journeys and Crossings" series of discussions with curators. In addition to iTunes U, the Library of Congress is also connecting new audiences to its vast resources via the Library’s blog, a Twitter feed, a page on Facebook and a YouTube channel.
Topic Guides for Chronicling America
The staff working on Chronicling American has provided a list of topics guides to the newspapers included in Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ ). Each topic guide (e.g., Baseball's Modern World Series, Ellis Island, or the Russo-Japanese War) includes subject-specific terms (including name usage, historical language, unusual spellings, etc.) and dates that can be readily used to search this topic in Chronicling America, as well as a list of sample articles found in Chronicling America.
Join us at the American Association of School Librarians Conference, November 5-7
Are you coming to Charlotte, North Carolina for AASL? We will be in booth 161 in the exhibit hall. There will be in-booth presentations every half hour including sessions on our new Teachers Page, the World Digital Library, TPS-Direct, our new our new online professional development system, and teaching with maps. In addition to being in the exhibit hall, we will have conference sessions on our new professional development modules and using books as hooks to primary sources. Hope to see you in Charlotte!!
Prepare for Veterans Day with Two New Primary Source Sets
Two new primary source sets from the Library of Congress can bring your students face to face with American war veterans. Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project and Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation let veterans tell their stories firsthand through interviews, diaries, photographs, and drawings. All these items were collected by the Veterans History Project, and they're accompanied by teacher guides and analysis tools that make them easy to use in the classroom. You can find these primary source sets and a teacher’s guide to analyzing oral histories at the following url’s: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/struggles.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Oral_Histories.pdf
Young Readers Toolkit
The Young Reader’s Toolkit has been updated for 2009 and provides tips on how to create local reading celebrations. The Young Readers’ Toolkit helps to bring the National Book Festival into libraries, schools and homes across the country. The Toolkit features information about National Book Festival authors who write for children and teens, podcasts of their readings, teaching tools and activities for kids. This interactive resource also shows educators, parents and children how they can host their own book festival.
The Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and the Center for the Book invite everyone to join them and the Consortium of Latin American Studies program for the awarding of the Americas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature to Yuyi Morales and Margarita Engle, the authors of Just in Case: A Tricksters Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book and The Surrender Tree: Portraits of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 17th from 10am-12 noon in the Mumford Room in the James Madison Building at the Library of Congress. The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. Please call 202-707-2013 to confirm your attendance.
42explore: Thematic Pathfinders for All Ages - We believe in life-long learning and encourage people of all ages to explore information. Our primary audience is students who need starting points for a particular project.
AboutSchool.com - Educational site for students (K-12), teachers and parents. Categorized by grade level with subjects.
Meta Description: [ This school education site will help students, teachers and parents succeed in all school subjects ]
Apples4theteacher - Newsletter features articles on topics of concern for teachers such as classroom discipline, socialization for homeschoolers, and parental involvement. Page also has educational games for students.
Meta Description: [ Apples4theteacher.com offers interactive educational activities and online games for teachers and homeschoolers. Educational games are categorized by subject - Language Arts online games, online Spanish games, online Science games, Social Studies educational activities, Educational Math games, Fo... ]
e-Grants - The Department of Education's (ED) portal site for electronic grants. From e-GRANTS you may access all of the Department's web-based grant systems.
Edu_RSS - Your one-stop source for today's top writers in educational technology. We retrieve weblog RSS feeds from across the web and store them here.
KidsConnect's Research Toolbox for Students - Online research toolbox for K-12 students.
Meta Description: [ KidsConnect's research toolbox for students. It will help you become more comfortable with the research process. In KCTools you'll find help with four basic phases of the research process. It begins with ]
Learn.co.uk - Learning resources for the UK national curriculum From The Guardian, UK.
National Center on Educational Outcomes - Provides national leadership in the participation of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students in national and state assessments, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements.
Meta Description: [ National Center on Educational Outcomes provides national leadership in the participation of students with disabilities
and limited English proficient students in national and state assessments,
standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements. ]
Teacher's, Parent's, and Youth Professional's Page - Miami University, Oxford, Ohio presents information for parents, teachers, and students and additional resources regarding learning issues that confront our students in today's classrooms.
The Education Revolution - Considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world. The Alternative Education Resource Organizationis non-profit organization founded in 1989.
The KIDS Report - A biweekly publication produced by K-12 students as a resource to other K-12 students. This is an archive; it is no longer active.
The McGraw-Hill Learning Network - Showcases K-12 materials and content in a Web-based community. Features educational programs, interactive textbooks, productivity tools, lesson plans, and games for students, teachers, and parents.
What Works Clearinghouse - Established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
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