Title: It’s Constitution Day!

Jokes:

A beginner rider at the stables was trying to saddle a horse. "Excuse me," said the old hand, "but you are putting that saddle on backwards." "How do you know," snapped the student. "You do not know which way I'm going."

On Our Mind:

First week back to school . . .

Constitution Day Resources . . .

Cybrary Man: http://cybraryman.com/constitution.html

Bill of Rights Institute

Primary Resources

Current Events & the Constitution

Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

Constitution Day Quiz

Interactive Online Module: Madison’s Notes Are Missing

Essay Contest

Michigan Department of Education Resource: The Toledo War

ConstitutionFacts.com: Constitution Quiz

ConstitutionFacts.com: Founders Quiz

Naturalization Test

National Constitution Center: To Sign or Not to Sign? (VII Amendment focus)

Interactive Constitution

Town Hall (Debate) Activity

Founders Biographies

Use a Bio-Cube with the Founders Biographies. (requires online access)

10 Ways to Teach Biographies (Education World)

Constitution Newswire: Connect current events to Constitutional Issues (relevance)

United States National Archives Resources

Biographies

Constitutional Convention Simulation

Teaching with Documents Lesson: Delaware’s Ratification of the Constitution

Teaching the Constitution Lesson Packet (US Archives charges for this.)

Teaching with Documents On-line Workshop

(Note: There is a video conferencing component which requires students to be up to speed at the appointed time.)

National Council for the Social Studies (membership required)

It’s My Right: Card based activity teaching the Constitution.

Frederick Douglass: The Constitution and Slavery; a classroom debate.

Internet Guide to Teaching the Constitution.

Listeners:

Thanks to @Mthman & @rushtheiceberg for the recommendation on Twitter!

Best wishes to Kevin at Honey Grove on his new blog!

From the Twitterverse:

Advisory:

Tech Tools:

ThoughtAudio:

http://www.thoughtaudio.com/

Reading Logs

http://www.readinglogs.com/

How Safe is your password?

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

Voki: Animated avatars

Webspotlight:

47+ Alternatives to YouTube:

Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. That is why I originally wrote what became one of the most popular posts to ever appear on Free Technology for Teachers, 30+ Alternatives to YouTube. That post is now fourteen months old and I've come across more alternatives in that time. Also in that time span some of the resources on the list have shut down. So it's time to update the list.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/47-alternatives-to-using-youtube-in.html

News:

California testing iPads as Algebra Textbook Replacements

A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads in an attempt to prove the advantages of interactive digital technologies over traditional teaching methods.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/117625-california-testing-ipads-as-algebra-textbooks