http://www.storyofstuff.com/

I like the basic colors of the website and also the interactive icons. The videos are also pretty engaging in terms of information on the specific topics.

This website is an interactive immigration website. It shows a virtual tour or ellis island and also has an option where you have an oral history scrapbook and people can publish any memories.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/

http://www.thibaud.be/

The drag-able rolodex style navigation on this site is really really cool, and there are a lot of nice little touches (like the papery sound effects or drag inertia) that would be awesome on a timeline.

http://www.history.com/videos/immigrants-detained-at-ellis-island#guided-tour-of-ferry-building-at-ellis-island

a website with videos about Ellis Island…

I recently found a website that has a collection of links to interactive history sites:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

From what I’ve seen so far, they’re extremely interactive, colorful, and organized. I think they’d serve as great examples for our website!

Here are two of the links on the site that I liked in particular:
http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do
http://dohistory.org/

I think I remember that it was an assignment to post interesting websites to this category. Sorry if I’m jumping the gun here… 😮

This is an art website, I think it’s innovative because you can handwrite and hand-draw comments: http://tewi.us/tegaki/

This is a pretty cool website, it’s very pleasing to the eye and it has really good use of streaming audio and dialog boxes: they don’t annoy you but engage you.  I also like the way certain images enlarge and sometimes multiply when you click on them: http://irinashabayeva.com/

I’ve added a new category, “Websites We Like”.  I encourage you all to post websites you find that are interesting or contain an element you think might be useful for our site on East Harlem.  Just post these to the class blog and categorize them as a ‘website we like’.

Here’s one with demographic information on East Harlem that I thought might be helpful and another site with great data and maps of East Harlem.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the table of contents on this site.