CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.2+N.19

**RONDA'S CORNER** **HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY**
 * FEBRUARY 14, 2012**

**MARY ANN MEANDERINGS**

**Virtual Museums** [|Digital objects of history] The National Archives: [|http://www.digitalvaults.org] (and it has the really neat feature that students can make a “movie” to tell a story with the items they identify, or you can create a “treasure hunt”). Titanic Exhibit: [|http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibition/5_3.html#Titanic] Museum Box: []

Revolutionary War - [|http://timeline.americanrevolutioncenter.org] This does a timeline of the war but shows objects from that period. If you click on the object, it gives a little history of the object. For example, at the time of the Boston Tea Party (December 1773), the timeline shows a French Gorget. If you click on it, it would show a description. This might give some good examples to show what would be in a Revolutionary War time capsule.

Professional Development Free - BooklistOnline. [] I have taken a couple, they are not bad. I like them because it exposed me to new literature - which is still a need for me.

Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak

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