Daily Bookmarks 06/06/2008
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Online collection of primary sources related to Wisconsin’s history. Copyright specifically allows educational use; many sources are old enough to be public domain.
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The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871
Primary source material from the Peshtigo fire (which happened the same night as the Chicago fire).
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Directory of open source software applications, sorted by function. Includes a tag search function.
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Sandra Day O’Connor: Game Designer | Game | Life from Wired.com
Not what I would have guessed she would do for a career after retiring from the Supreme Court. Sanda Day O’Connor is helping develop an educational game to teach students about the legal system.
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O’Connor believes that America’s youth aren’t learning enough about civics, and thinks that the educational power of videogames is just the thing to change that.
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The game “lets students engage in real issues and real problems,” O’Connor said. It will allow them to “step into the shoes of a judge, a legislator, an executive — teach them how to think through and analyze problems, take action and voice opinions to their elected
representatives.”
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