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Chrome Extensions for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Diigo : An educator friendly social bookmarking service, this extension allows you to highlight portions of web pages, add sticky notes, archive, and bookmark. A must have for educators! Click & Clean deletes typed URL''s, browsing history, Flash cookies, and other types of online activity.

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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

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Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” Schonfeld is a longtime leader in the library community and is a program director at Ithaka S+ R a nonprofit education consultancy. The Internet Archive was active. And that's something that's really important to bear in mind.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

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Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. and elsewhere.