Letters to the Editor

Editor's Notebook

The Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century

By Paul Resta, Betty S. Flowers, Ken Tothero

This interactive website with digitized resources from 12 presidential libraries offers students a close-up look at key moments of a president's term.

Sounds Good to Me: Using Digital Audio in the Social Studies Classroom

By George B. Lipscomb, Lisa Marie Guenther, Perry McLeod

Recent innovations in audio content, such as streaming, podcasts, and vodcasts, engage auditory learners and enrich the classroom experience.

For Kids, By Kids: Our City Podcast

By Tony Vincent, Mark van't Hooft

Young people eagerly plan, research, write, and edit a podcast that tells the history of their city when they know that this creation will have an authentic listening audience.

Listen Up: Studying the American Labor Movement Through Oral Histories

By Cheryl Mason Bolick, Lisa Norberg, Dayna Durbin

A growing collection of digitized oral history interviews on topics such as labor, civil rights, and women's issues, allows students to hear firsthand about the experiences of individuals during critical periods in American history.

Exploring Complex Social Phenomena with Computer Simulations

By Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson

New technological tools that imitate real life phenomena, such as agent-based modeling and simulations, help students explore how individual actions can contribute to the emergence of social patterns.

Discovering Africa through Internet-based Geographic Information Systems: A Pan-African Summit Simulation

By Andrew J. Milson, Kathleen M. Gilbert, Brian D. Earle

World geography students discover Africa on their own with Internet-based interactive maps and geographic data.

The Course of the Republic: American Responses to Technology in the Nineteenth Century

By Meghan McGlinn Manfra

This overview with teaching activities on the Lowell textile mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson offers creative approaches to studying the political and technological changes of the nineteenth century.

Building Connections and Community: The Roles Self-Reflection and Technology Can Play in Tolerance and Democratic Education

By John M. Fischer, Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Zeb Kellough, Jen Presla

Participants in this international expedition are using new forms, such as I-movies, chat rooms, and posting narratives and images online, to record and share their experiences.

The Great Firewall of China

By Shawn Healy

Teaching Activities by Michelle Parrini