Technology Tool Blog #2

The technology website that I found is The National Archives Website video section that has a lot of primary source videos about the economy and different things that affect it. The website address is http://video.google.com/nara.html. Even though it is through Google, you know it is reliable because it works through The National Archives website. A lot of the videos are 10 min-30 min, which seem long for elementary students so you would have to cut it to the exact spot you would like to show your students. There are a lot of videos and it would be hard to watch them all, because they are so long, to find the right one you wanted. But it is also beneficial to have so many video sources because there are a lot of subjects that go with each video. It is also really cool because the videos are filmed in the past so some of them are black and white and they are some news coverage from the past. The actual National Archives websites, www.nara.gov, has a lot of primary source documents as well. I would use this website to find pictures and documents that I will use to teach my students from that era of time. I think that it is important to teach with primary sources because it directly takes the students to that time period. The website is a little difficult to figure out. There is a teacher section that you can go to and search and it sorts out what wouldn’t be very beneficial to teach elementary students. Once you figure out how to get to the teacher website and find what you need, it is a very useful website to teach any social studies topic. The videos also work well with Zamzar so you can convert the files and use them whenever, not just when you have the internet.