As my students embark on a journey westward with Lewis and Clark, I wonder what kind of interactive resources are available through the iPad. I want students to experience something that integrates primary documents, gripping graphics, narrative text, key terms, maps, and more. Am I asking too much?? So I found something neat: Lewis & Clark--Into the Unknown on PBS (see link below). This site had some, certainly not all, of the components I was looking for...but it needs Flash. So out of luck. Now, what's up with this oversight? It seems that many tools are inaccessible on the iPad because of the lack of Flash player. Is there a remedy in sight? Is there a loophole in the system? Or, am I forever limited to a similar, but not so slick, interactive on National Geographic?
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html
Note: I tried to add a screenshot I created of the PBS site. Blogger wouldn't save this post with the image. Is the file too big? How do I work around that? Last year, I learned to save it as a JPEG, but I couldn't remember how to do it. Ahhh, I LOVE technology!! (60 minutes later when I should have been grading papers...)
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