Primary and Secondary Sources |
We often look at, and need to find, primary and secondary sources for writing papers and learning about what happened during a certain era of history. On the left are several excellent sources that you can use to help you in your search for sources.
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The American Yawp |
Digital History |
Digital History is an educational website that has a crazy amount of primary and secondary documents, articles, historical images, and more. This is an incredible resource to use in search of reliable information.
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How to Submit Assignments
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In all of my classes, we utilize technologies like Google, to enhance learning. The button on the left will lead you to a step by step document, explaining how to upload an electronic assignment (google doc, or google slide) to your course submission folder.
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Summary Codeing |
As you write summaries for history class, I will make comments by using a 'coding' method. If after I have graded a summary of yours, you see comments of just a letter, click on the link on the right to figure out what I want you to know.
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TedTalks
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TedTalks are fun, short talks that get you thinking! I use them all the time in my classroom and just listening them when I'm in the car, cooking dinner, going for a walk, whatever. TedTalks give experts in their given fields a stage to propose thought provoking, ground breaking results, and alternative ways of thinking. Here are two links to Ted.com (Home of TedTalks) and also to the TED radio hour, from NPR. The TED radio hour is a podcast (an audio-only downloadable program) that takes highlights from 3-5 TED speakers and combines them to give ideas about a central topic.
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Citing Sources |
We will be doing a lot of writing in history class, and one term you will hear a lot during your writing career is plagiarism. Which is basically steeling credit for the work another person has done. To make sure you don't plagiarize, you must cite the sources you used when writing a paper. If you have a source that needs citing, try using one of the links below. The Purdue Owl, based out of Perdue University, guides you step by step in how to correctly cite any kind of article into any format you could ever imagine. EasyBib takes it one step further. You look up your source on the EasyBib website, then they give you a variety of completed ways to cite your sources. However, Easybib does not teach you how to cite the source, nor does it have every source or every format available to you. If they don't have it recorded, you're out of luck.
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