Thursday, December 4, 2014

Tech Tidbit: ContextU.com

This week's Tech Tidbit video spotlights the American History research site ContextU, which is currently in beta test mode, and features 4 study units to this point, "American Revolution", "The New Nation", "Causes of the Civil War", and "The American Civil War".




Each unit has four main features: Timeline, Map, Cause & Effect, and Groups.  The Timeline feature allows the user to see a timeline of important events in that era of time, as well as important people in history who were alive during that time, as well as events that were happening around the world during that time in history.  The Map feature displays markers on a map that display where important events in that era took place.  The Cause & Effect feature organizes people and events into factors that contributed to that era of history, as well as results of what happened during that time.  Finally, the Groups features lists important people and events in the order that they happened in a streamlined view.

ContextU.com is in beta test mode, which means that additional features will be added as time goes on.  Regular users of this site might want to bookmark the site and return frequently to see what has been updated and made available.

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