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Person, place, or thing that provides firsthand information about something. Examples include oral histories, letters and other original documents.

• A District Leaders Guide to Relationships That Support Systemic Change
  An 18-pages document that describes how schools can create "communities that work" to initiate and sustain a reform agenda for school improvement.
• American Memory: Historical Collections
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
• Antartica: On-line Expeditions
  The goal of the scientific project is to study the components of a polar desert ecosystem and the interactions between them over long temporal and broad spatial scales.Incorporated into this objective is an on-line educational project for schoolchildren, focusing on the environment and ecological awareness.
• Archives of African-American Music&Culture
  Archives of African-American Music&CultureWeb site devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for the purpose of research and study of African-American music and culture.http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc.
• Are You Ready?
  The cover story from NEA's on-line journal, this article discusses how some teachers are using technology in their classrooms to enhance student learning.
• Artic Studies Center
  The Arctic Studies Center is the only U.S. government program with a special focus on northern cultural research and education.
• Bad Wolf Press
  Musical plays for musically timid teachers. The website allows one to listen to musicals that have been developed to be performed by children.
• Black History Pages
  The Black History Pages contains links to African American resources from early times to the present.
• Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators
  Black Wings, an on-line Smithsonian exhibit, tells the story of how one group of Americans overcame obstacles to break into aviation.
• Digital Blackboard: History Matters
  Fifty-seven web-based assignments that are models for integrating new media into the classroom. Sample topics: Red Hot Jazz; Reservation Controversies; Watergate and the Constitution.
• Digital Divide Network
  This comprehensive Website provides feature stories about digital divide; current research; discussion lists;and a method for finding public access technology in your town.
• eDesk: A Review of Recent Evidence on the Effectiveness of Discrete Educational Software
  A 119-page research report about the effects of discrete software on student learning. Report also identifies areas where more research and evaluation is needed.
• EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
  The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. EDSITEment is the product of a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities.
• Getting the Media Message
  The purpose of this 3 year research project is to examine whether the content of media, experienced by 6th, 7th and 8th graders reinforces or hinders the development of gender and racial diversity in the Informational Technology workforce.
• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course
  Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
• Integration of Technology in the Classroom
  This report explores issues and concerns relating to the pedagogical uses of the new technologies for learning across the curriculum. It calls for greater support for teachers in learning to use technology effectively in the classroom.
• K12 Handhelds
  K12 Handhelds, Inc. provides schools with integrated solutions for handheld use in education that include: planning, professional development, hardware, software and applications, educational bundles, implementation and support, and assessment.
• Latinos, Computers and the Internet
  A comprehensive fact sheet about Latinos and the digital divide. Includes information about Internet access, computers at home and technology used in employment.
• Native American Indian Art
  Numerous examples of Native American art and types of art are described and pictured to use in art education projects and curriculum.
• Ology
  A cleaver, animated site with activities related to "ology", the study of something. Website includes activities about genetics, paleontology,astronomy and biodiversity.
• Plants of the Lewis and Clark Journals
  A project developed by middle school students. Includes background information, list of plants, and images of Lewis and Clark.
• Project WhistleStop - Harry S. Truman
  Project WhistleStop enables educators to work with the original source material of the Harry S Truman Presidential Library; to use technology and primary sources in project based learning experiences in the classroom; and to develop an on-line resource of original Truman Library documents, photographs, records, cartoons, and other archival material for student research projects.
• Project-Based Learning: A Primer
  An article from TechLearning about project-based learning -- what it looks like, the role of technology and how it relates to school reform.
• Secrets of Great History Teachers
  Interviews questions for distinguished history teachers address why and how people teach history. Teachers using this resource can get new ideas, as well as honor outstanding people.
• Technology Standards Matrix
  A matrix of technology standards for students with "applied learning standards" and "edtech matrix" (necessary equipment, materials, etc.) .
• The Anacostia Museum and Center for African-American History and Culture
  Focuses on modern African-American history and culture.
• The Learning Return on our Educational Technology Investment
  This 35-page paper identifies the major research findings related to technology use and,based on these findings,attempts to draw out implications for how to make the most of technology resources. Focuses on pedagogical and policy issues related to technology.
• Understanding Educational Quality: Where Validity Meets Technology
  On Nov. 8, 1998, Dr.
• Women Working, 1870-1930 a digital collection of primary sources for teaching, learning and research
  Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
• Women's History Workshop
  Web-based curricular modules on women's studies and United States history for use in history, English, and social studies courses, grades 3 through 12. Also includes workshops for teachers on Women's History topics.