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General Resources

Podcasts

Education

Visions of Education: https://visionsofed.com/
Have You Heard: https://haveyouheardblog.com/  
BustED Pencils: ​https://bustedpencils.com/ 

Disciplinary / General Interest

This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/
RadioLab Presents: More Perfect: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect/
  • Series on SCOTUS
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History: http://revisionisthistory.com/
Code Switch: NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
  • "journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting"
Embedded: NPR: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510311/embedded
  • In-depth reporting on topics, beyond what you see in the typical news cycle
The Daily: New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily?mcubz=0&_r=0
Freakanomics Radio: http://freakonomics.com/archive/
Presidential: Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/
  • Each episode profiles a president -- you'll learn how historians would describe a blind date with each of them
Stuff You Missed in History Class: http://www.missedinhistory.com/
On Being: https://onbeing.org/
On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/
 

Video Resources

TED Ed: https://ed.ted.com/
Crash Course: http://thecrashcourse.com/courses
C-Span Classroom: https://www.c-span.org/classroom/
 

​Creative Commons images (with few or no restrictions)

Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/
Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
World Images Database: http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/
 

Virtual Communities/blogs

C3 Teachers: http://c3teachers.org/
Social Studies Chat: https://sschat.org/
Edutopia: https://www.edutopia.org/latest
Teaching US History: http://www.teachingushistory.co/
  • Home
  • Membership
  • Educate
    • Professional Developments
    • Instructional Resources
    • Subject Resources
    • Special Topics
    • Kentucky Resources
    • Contemporary Perspectives
    • General Resources
  • Conference
  • Inform
    • Social Studies Teaching and Learning
    • SSTL Submissions
  • Advocate
    • KCEC
    • KCEC Resource Page
    • KCSS Position Statements
  • Contact