Cynthia Dwyer

The Problem with Textbooks

Edutopia's "The Muddle Machine: A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education". A great article about how textbooks are "written". This article supports why teachers shouldn't rely on their textbooks for all of the content that they teach, and should instead just use it as one of several supplemental materials. http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine

MSNBC.com reports on "Textbook debate in Texas over sex education: Battle over birth-control references has national implications".
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5469437/

"Doing It By the Book" - An interview with a N.Y. based educational publisher giving an insider's view of the textbook industry. http://corporatemofo.com/society_and_antisocial_tendenc/doing_it_by_the_book.html

Articles compiled by Illinois Loop regarding the problem with current textbooks and the industry. http://www.illinoisloop.org/textbooks.html The Washington Post, "Why Don't We Fix Our Textbooks", was forwarded to me by Mary Stears, a teacher who took this class. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56501-2005Mar22.html

N.Y.S. Social Studies Curriculum Resources

S.S. Tool Kit

Virtual Learning System

Instructional Strategies

Digital Images

Google Art Project

A chronology of U.S. historical documents. This includes links to original documents as well as several good web site resources on specific topics. http://www.law.ou.edu/hist

The SUNY Stonybrook map collection. View "Long Island Maps & Their Makers" as well as "New York State Maps". http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/libmap/nymaps.htm

Erie Canal photos and tour

Child Labor Photos

Digital History - Ethnic America

Professional Cartoonists Index - view the "Teacher's Tour of the Index"

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's Archival Resource Catalog

Matthew Brady's Civil War Photographs

Video in the Classroom

Thirteen Ed On-line National Teacher Training Institute: Why Use Video in the Classroom & Video Resources. http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video4.html

Discovery Education On-line If you want to try this service, you can log-in as me: username: cyndwyer password: cynthia

WebQuests

Link to the WebQuests that I've made

QuestGarden

Tech Trekkers

Best WebQuests

Games & Simulations

Google Earth