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Teaching, Technology, and Map Sources

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Cornell University Library Historical Monographs
• Curriculum/Lessons Plans and Syllabi
  • Curriculum
    (resources for teachers and administrators of American Studies programs), includes:
    • A Brief Guide to Interactive Multimedia and the Study of the United States
      (dated, but still quite useful)
  • EdSitement: The Best of Humanities on the Web
    (includes History and Social Studies, with lesson plans, National Endowment for the Humanities)
  • Fathom: Source for Online Learning
    (content developed by member institutions)
    • Locating the Victorians: Technology, Culture and Empire
  • Syllabi
    • Dynamic Syllabi
      (part of Curriculum Resources for American Studies Programs)
    • Syllabus Project
      (from American Academy of Religion, some history)
    • World Lecture Hall
      (online course materials, with search engine)
• Digital Book Index
• Maps
  • Ancient World Mapping Center
    (University of North Carolina)
  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
  • Historical Maps
    (from the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota)
  • Links to Map resources
    (History Cooperative Historian's Web)
  • Map History/History of Cartography
    (search engine and 3,500+ annotated links)
  • Mapping History (The Darkwing Atlas Project)
    (interactive maps and atlases in European and American history)
  • Maps and Mapping Sites
  • Outline Maps
    • from Eduplace.com
    • from Perry-Castañeda Library
  • University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• National Center for History in the Schools
  (materials and coverage of national and world history standards debate)
• Technology and Website Construction
  • Computing with Accents, Symbols, and Foreign Scripts
    (includes ALT codes, from Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technology)
  • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
    (metadata standards and encoding guidelines)
  • eLearning - CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver MX Extension
  • postgreSQL
    (open source database)
  • random.org
    (random integer integrator, for tests, research)
  • Useit
    (Usable Information Technology, web guidelines)
  • Webmonkey
    (resources for web developers)
  • Web Standards Project
  • Web Style Guide
  • W3C World Wide Web Consortium
    (vital source of best practices for web construction, includes css validator and html validator to test code)