Teaching Social Studies in Virtual Space

Project Information

Section 1: Educational Media & Social Studies Education

This book will highlight, evaluate, and recommend different media and methods for leveraging learning through the use of technology. The main focus of the work is on exposing new and novel formats for teaching in a virtual environment. Everyone is invited to contribute, especially tech-savvy educators, students, and members of the wiki community.

To do:
Outline still under construction. Please contribute to the outline by introducing new forms of educational media that can be integrated into the social studies classroom.

A standardized format for the essay on each educational medium is proposed:

  1.1 Introduction & Background
  1.2 Definitions
  1.3 Ethics
  1.4 Instructional Use
  1.5 Conclusions and Recommendations
  1.6 Examples & Exemplars
  1.7 Resources
  1.8 References

Educational Media

Section 2: Example/Exemplar Resources

This section is intended as a place were teachers and contributors can post social studies [example units, lesson plans, activities, & class projects] that leverage educational technology in order to help teachers teach or students learn social studies. It is also a place where teachers may post the results of various online projects their classes have done.

This section is also intended to inform the first section concerning various educational media. The content in this section will act as a rich resource for contributors that are highlighting various educational technology media. Contributors can draw examples, illustrations, and anecdotes from this section in order to discuss the employment of educational technology meaningfully in their contributions to the first section of this book. The hope is that contributors who are not educators by profession will not be deterred from adding their ideas for lack of direct experience in the classroom. Rather, they can draw on the [example units, lesson plans, activities, & class projects]within this database in order to illustrate their ideas.

Lastly, the contents of this section will serve as ideas and suggestions for how to implement educational technology within the social studies classroom upon this book's completion. Therefore, these resources will serve as both examples and exemplars.

Resources by Subject Area