About Us
The Center for Teaching History with Technology aims to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. The Center provides a multitude of free online resources as well as workshops and consultation services.The Center for Teaching History with Technology was created by Tom Daccord(B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Universite de Montreal), veteran high school history teacher, and instructional technology specialist. Mr. Daccord is creator and webmaster of Best of History Web Sites, an award-winning portal that receives upwards of 112,000 visitors per month and a million visitors a year. He is also president of The Center for Teaching History with Technology, an organization with 1200 subscribers, whose mission is to to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Mr. Daccord is also the creator and webmaster of "Teaching Literature & Writing With Technology," designed to help English and Language Arts teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. A "laptop teacher" who has instructed in a wireless laptop environment for the last six years, Mr. Daccord has been featured in the Boston Globe ("Making Tech Connect," December 29, 2003) for his contributions to teaching with technology. He has presented on educational technology topics at the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, the Laptop Institute in Memphis, the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Technology Conference, and also runs various onsite and online technology workshops. He also serves as a consultant to the WGBH American Experience New Media team and has recently been contracted by Neal-Schuman Publishers to write a reference work on history web sites.
The Center for Teaching History with Technology is co-edited with Justin Reich (B.A., M.A. University of Virginia ), Justin Reich has taught wilderness medicine for the SOLO school in New Hampshire and World History and Topics in Modern History at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Mr. Reich developed a variety of new curriculum and lesson plans around chatting, blogging, and other projects based on new and emerging technologies.
Special thanks:
Dr. Arnold Pulda (B.A. Bard College, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is director of Gifted and Talented student programs for the public schools in Worcester, MA. Until recently he taught U.S. History at a high school in Worcester and has also taught middle school history. Arnold Pulda was a National Semi-finalist in the Technology & Learning Tech Leaders of the Year Competition and has written a lesson plan on Jackie Robinson that appears among the Library of Congress's collection of teacher resources. He has also written lesson plans for Assumption's "E Pluribus Unum" web site. He has published articles on technology and teaching in Meridian , the Library of Congress Newsletter and Classroom Connect.
The Center for Teaching History With Technology thanks John Raymond for his advice and general contributions to the creation of this site. An Educational Technology Consultant and publisher of The New Curriculum, an online educational technology journal. Mr. Raymond is the creator of TieLab (Technology-in-Education Laboratory), The History Lab, the Local Historical Archives Project and a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Commission on Technology. He helps organize the "Teaching with Technology" program of the CAIS Summer Technology Conference and is a former high school history and philosophy teacher.
The Center for Teaching History With Technology reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient enrollment.
