PuertoRicoWebsites

We have collected all of the links recommended our mentioned during our three day workshop:

__**Participant Sites:**__ [|http://www.mapr.org/] Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico [|http://www.guamhumanitiescouncil.org] [] Picturing America, Picturing Guam teacher resource and classroom presentation [|www.museocontemporaneopr.org] [] La exhibición En Rieles: otra forma de movernos por Viejo San Juan explora la importancia de integrar los medios de transportación colectiva y la necesidad de proveer alternativas como un sistema de tram en la ciudad de San Juan. Incluye una impresionante [|maqueta] de 38' de largo hecha a escala 1:87.

__**Mentioned during the Workshop:**__

__NMAH/SAAM Museum Website Examples__ [] //¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art// [] A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection [|http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/puerto/]Children's resources related to Ponce Carnival, featuring an outstanding children's book by a Puerto Rican woman author [] NMAH online exhibition for //On the Water// with materials on pirates

__Webconferences:__ Art of Science Webinar:[| http://www.smithsonianconference.org/shout/conference-change/]Listen to archived webinar, download Observation Journal, view Virtual Graphic Facilitation. For more information on Virtual Graphic Facilitation, visit:[| http://www.learningtimes.com/what-we-do/online-conferences/virtual-graphic-facilitation/] Upcoming (August 3-4) virtual conference on September 11: Teaching Contemporary History[| http://smithsonianconference.org/september11/]

__Web and Social Media Tools:__ [|1. www.weebly.com/] Create a free website 2. [|www.twitter.com] Send short (140 characters or less) messages to your followers NMAH's General Audience Twitter account [|www.twitter.com/amhistorymuseum] NMAH's Educators Twitter account [|www.twitter.com/explorehistory] [|3. www.flickr.com] Create a free account to upload pictures, add descriptions, and allow users to tag and comment NMAH's Flickr page ( []) 4. [|www.facebook.com] Create a page for your organization and share updates/photos/links with fans 5. [] Create a blog tool (one of the simplest interfaces for updating available) 6. [] Create a blog tool (has a few more features than tumblr) 7.[| http://hootsuite.com/] Manage your Twitter and other Social Media accounts

[] free online community for teachers and other educators. Feel free to invite your teachers to participate, create your own groups, connect with JennyAtAmericanHistory. []

[|omeka.org] //Omeka// is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections

[] Flickr's Creative Commons website allows you to use or offer photographs under a creative commons license, an alternative to full copyright.

[|http://arago.si.edu] Arago, a model for interactive content sharing from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. Teachers can use the tool to create online exhibitions that they annotate with their own information, questions, activities, or notes.

[] American Art Museum student podcasting page.

__** Educational Sites with Rich Media: **__ [|www.artbabble.org] ArtBabble is a new kind of video site dedicated to art and artists. It offers high definition video that features content ranging from contemporary to classical.

[|www.smarthistory.org] Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

[|www.metmuseum.org/toah] The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History provides an overview of the history of art as illustrated and represented in the Museum's collection.

[] Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

[] Your guide to modern art: artists, movements, ideas and critics.

__**Learning Games:**__

// [|www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/**launchball**/] // Fantastic educational puzzle/problem solving game.

[] A series of games that teach about different periods of history. (Mummy Maker and Pyramid Challenge are especially good.) [|http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/launch_gms_hunt_ancestor.shtml](Archaeology game)

[] Art games from the Tate Museums in the UK. Art Lab is an award-winning conservation game.