Finding Photos on Flickr

For those who are not familiar with it, Flickr is a way for users to share their photos online. Users can make them public or private depending on how they want to share them. The great part about Flickr is that users can tag their photos so they are searchable...

Introducing Civil War Sallie

As part of her Pa Middle School Computer Fair project, my daughter has created a very cool project.  Based on an idea called Morpheus Fortuna, she has created an educational “follow me” project to get kids to learn more about the Civil War and using...

Civil War Casualties

In order to better understand the impact that the Civil War had on the United States, it is important for students to review data of how many soldiers were killed, died from disease, died as a prisoner of war, and died in accidents. Information such as this was...
Google Time Line Feature

Google Time Line Feature

UPDATE:  AUGUST 2016 – This feature is no longer available Thanks to Chris C over at the Sparks of Hope Blog for this one: Did you know that Google has a timeline feature? Go to Google.com and type the following into the search box: civil war view:timeline...