Mrs. Ackerman's Tech Pages

Welcome!

Pages created by Kim Ackerman, Library Services Coordinator at Adams12 Five Star Schools, Broomfield, CO. USA

Online Resources for Classes

Language Arts & Social Studies:
In The First Person - a free, high quality, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English.  The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.
 
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google - Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
 
iCue from NBC News - thousands of videos on current topics and hundreds of games to learn about the topics.  Wow!
 
Music from history - sound recordings from various time periods from the National Museum of American History.
 
Films from history - an archive of historic films from the 1920's to present.
 
American Memory Collection - national archive of primary sources
All Topics Covered:
Frontline full version videos from PBS - years of amazing videos on a variety of current topics. 
 
studio4learning.tv - short video tutorials on all educational topics.  Easy to follow and fun!
 
Business and Finance:
Planet Money Daily Podcasts - from National Public Radio.   Current news on our economy.