Using Diigo in the Classroom
Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo:
-Save important websites and access them on any computer.
-Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.
-Search through bookmarks to quickly ...
Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten – 03.02.2011
Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverstehen mit authentischen Materialien. Nutzen Sie die Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Donnerstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.KAIRO: Nach neuen Unruhen hat die ägyptische Armee begonnen, in Kairo eine Pufferzone zwischen Demonstranten und Anhängern von Präsident Mubarak herzustellen. Panzer und Soldaten gingen auf dem Tahrir-Platz in Stellung, um die beiden Lager zu trennen. Nur Stunden zuvor waren auf dem Platz Schüsse aus Schnellfe
Introduction #01 - Could Something This Good Actually Be Free?
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! In this inaugural Introduction Lesson, Carlos and Natalia let us in on the best deal around: the Free Audio offered in every lesson published at SpanishPod101.com. How can I download it? Where is it available? For how long will I have access to it? Get these questions and many more answered [...]
Jennie Wade: Maid of Gettysburg
Jennie Wade was a 21-year-old civilian girl who was killed during the battle at Gettysburg. This video gives a brief overview of the battle at Gettysburg while discussing the life of Jennie Wade, the Maid of Gettysburg, and her family.
Web Gaphic Organizer
This short video discusses how to use a web as a graphic organizer. While the topic being webbed, the U.S. Constitution, is for older students, the concept can still be useful for the younger ones as well. (1:48)
The Venn Diagram
This video shows how to use a Venn Diagram. These are used to help organize your thoughts when writing a compare/contrast essay. The topics being compared in this video, Edward Cullen from the Twilight books vs. the classic Byronic Hero, are best suited for older students; however, younger students could get the idea of how to set up and use a Venn Diagram. (2:11)
The Venn Diagram
This video shows how to use a Venn Diagram. These are used to help organize your thoughts when writing a compare/contrast essay. The topics being compared in this video, Edward Cullen from the Twilight books vs. the classic Byronic Hero, are best suited for older students; however, younger students could get the idea of how to set up and use a Venn Diagram. (2:11)
Feng Shui investment outlook
Sectors associated with earth or fire will be strong plays in 2011, says Feng Shui master Raymond Lo.
UK shops bank on Chinese customers
As the Chinese celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, London department store Harrods has begun accepting China's domestic debit and credit UnionPay card.
Saved by Righteous Among the Nations Vartan Mkrtchyan
The survivor, Josef Tarashinski, and his wife Knarik Shakhbazyan tell about the circumstances of Josef's escape from the Drobitskiy Yar killing site, and about the meeting his future rescuer, Vartan Mkrtchyan, a 16-year-old Armenian, who lived in Kharkov with his mother and sister. Thanks to his efforts and the help of Vartan's extended family Josef Tarashinski lived to see the liberation in August 1943.
For more details, click here:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/Mkrtchyan.as
Saved by Righteous Among the Nations Vartan Mkrtchyan
The survivor, Josef Tarashinski, and his wife Knarik Shakhbazyan tell about the circumstances of Josef's escape from the Drobitskiy Yar killing site, and about the meeting his future rescuer, Vartan Mkrtchyan, a 16-year-old Armenian, who lived in Kharkov with his mother and sister. Thanks to his efforts and the help of Vartan's extended family Josef Tarashinski lived to see the liberation in August 1943.
For more details, click here:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/Mkrtchyan.as
1907: Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, Reviewing Stand 2
This image is a photograph of ladies seated in a reviewing stand, probably for a parade. Margaret Olivia Sage is seated at the middle of the stand. She is wearing a dark coat and hat. The other ladies are wearing light-colored clothes and large hats trimmed with flowers. There are several children in the stand, as well. The stand is draped with striped bunting. Several men and boys on foot, including a uniformed policeman, and a uniformed man on horseback are in front of it. Mrs. Sage is leaning
1852: St. Paul's Female School, Syracuse, New York
This image is a photograph that appeared in the *Syracuse Herald*, August 8, 1906, showing the students and faculty of St. Paul's Female School in Syracuse. Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage was a teacher at this school when this photograph was made. The children and teachers are arranged in rows on the ground in front of a building, probably the school or the church.,This grainy image of the pupils and teachers of St. Paul's Female School, Syracuse, New York, survives only in a newspaper clipping. We
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, Portrait 7
This image is a oil portrait of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. She is shown seated on a bench in Central Park, feeding nuts to a squirrel. She is wearing a hat and coat. A muff and handbag are on the bench to her right, and a scarf is draped over the bench to her left. There is an open bag of nuts on her lap near the squirrel.,This portrait depicts Olivia Sage on a rustic seat, probably in New York's Central Park, feeding squirrels. She felt passionately about animal welfare and bird protection, c
1902-11-26: Mrs. Sage and the Mayflower Society Part
This image is a newspaper clipping. It describes Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage's decision to let her Mayflower Society membership lapse because of her opposition to their smoking policy.,This short news item shows how Margaret Olivia Sage used her socially prominent position to pursue various efforts to reform other people's behavior. Resignation from the Mayflower Society, an elite genealogical society, would have been too drastic a step for one who had exerted considerable effort to establish an
1917-02-21: Kellas, Eliza, to Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage
This image is a typewritten letter from Eliza Kellas to Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. The writer thanks Mrs. Sage for a donation to the Russell Sage College of Practical Arts and indicates that part of the money will be used to construct a new building.,Principal both of the new Russell Sage College of Practical Arts and of the Emma Willard School, Eliza Kellas finds a moment to write to the college's benefactor. She tells Olivia Sage about plans for expansion and for teaching "Secretarial Subjec
1889: Act of Incorporation, Woman's Hospital in the State of New York
This image is an 1888 reprint of the 1857 official document marking the incorporation of the New-York Woman's Hospital in New York City. This reprint appeared in the 1888 annual report of the Woman's Hospital.,The New York Woman’s Hospital was the initiative of a group of socially prominent New York women who rallied their resources (and those of their husbands) to support the fashionable surgeon, J. Marion Sims, a newcomer to New York, and to provide him with an arena for his innovative pract
Latinas/os Lawyers in Government
9th Annual National Latina/o Law Student Association Conference: Latinas/os Lawyers in Government
Roads to modernity, 1789-1945
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught Autumn/Spring Semesters 2010/11.
This module addresses the nature of ‘modernity’. It explores the ideas and historical experiences that transformed societies in Europe and around the world during a series of epic journeys from the distant past to the near present. In the autumn semester lectures and seminars provide a broad chronological survey of major events from 1789 to 1945. The focus is on key e
