Technology for Social Studies

After having the flu all week, I really do not feel up to posting a lot on my blog. I've decided to post some of the sites that I found this earlier this week. Hope they are helpful!

http://www.geocities.com/lorikrane/TechSS.htm Using Tech to Teach S.S. This site offers links to articles, lesson plans, online tutorials, standards, software, etc.

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/integrating_tech_ss.phtml Integrating Technology in the Social Studies Class Fortunately for social studies teachers, many aspects of study in the content areas lend themselves to technology integration. Whether it be researching and creating spreadsheets with data, generating graphs or charts, or creating Web scavenger hunts, ideas abound for using technology in your social studies class today. Using your standards as a guide, modify any of the following ideas to fit your curriculum goals.

http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss1/currentissues/socialstudies/article1.htm This is a journal article: Guidelines for Using Technology to Prepare Social Studies Teachers

http://home.att.net/~rmmwms/other/ssteachers.html This site provides numerous links for social studies teachers

http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Technology_in_Social_Studies This is a WIKI based on Technology in Social Studies

http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-social-studies-lessons Students fire off ideas for using digital tools to teach history and current events.