Tuesday Bonus Post: Historypin!

Last night I had the opportunity to join Amy Sample Ward of NTEN Nonprofit Technology Network for the unveiling of the new and wonderful Historypin app and platform. I went intrigued and left enamored; Historypin is a phenomenal and completely free resource for students and educators across the grades and around the world.

I have had an extremely difficult time containing my enthusiasm about this project, and I hope you will, too. Check it out and spread the word!

From their website:

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.

Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.

Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

Historypin has been developed by the not-for-profit company We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google.