http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline This blog provides news related to the Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:22:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Presidential Timeline Project team will be hosting a 4-day teacher institute, July 9-12, 2009, on The University of Texas at Austin campus.  This year's conference is titled The Social Studies Classroom: Presidential Decision Making, Historical Reasoning, and Digitized Primary Sources.  The conference will feature scholars from the fields of ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2009/03/25/inaugural-presidential-timeline-summer-teacher-institute-from-july-9-12-2009-in-austin-tx/ All of our educational activities should be back to full functionality now, but we are having some trouble with the Gallery. We're working on it as we speak and expect the problem to be resolved quickly. http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/12/01/trouble-with-the-gallery/ We're currently experiencing a problem with our educational activities not displaying properly in Internet Explorer. They are working fine in all other browsers that we have checked. We are working as we speak to resolve the problem. http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/11/20/problem-w-ed-activities-in-ie/ We've improved the printing capabilities within the Presidential Timeline to facilitate printing of the documents/images that are contained within the Timeline. Anytime you are in the Record Viewer window you can click the PRINTABLE button at the lower right. Originally, the only printing option available was to print the page ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/10/13/improved-printing-capabilities/ In an effort to provide avenues for study in emerging social studies scholarship, the Presidential Timeline Blog offers an ever-growing resource list for interested educators and/or enthusiasts.  The list will focus primarily on issues related to historical thinking and the use of primary sources in the social studies classroom.  You ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/09/03/check-out-our-recommended-reading-list/ The NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) originally released its Curriculum Standards in 1994. Rather than being a set of content standards for various disciplines within the social studies, the Curriculum Standards describe a thematic approach that can serve as a framework for the creation of a rich and ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/06/25/ncss-updating-curriculum-standards/ I'm currently reading Sam Wineburg's pivotal volume - Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. The book looks at traditional views of how history is and has been taught, but ultimately at what history instruction has the potential to be - a vehicle for ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/03/21/historical-thinking-and-other-unnatural-acts-charting-the-future-of-teaching-the-past/ I am delighted to announce that we have added several hundred new objects to the Presidential Timeline. Initial additions were made to the Carter timelines, many of them related to the Iran hostage crisis, but also including some others from Early Life and Career. These objects were added entirely "by hand" ... http://blogs.edb.utexas.edu/presidential_timeline/2008/03/03/new-objects-on-presidential-timeline/