Pinning down history stories

Here's an example of a creative way of engaging and helping readers at the same time. Canada's National History Society has hired an Education Program Coordinator, Joel Ralph, to develop online newsletters to highlight articles from The Beaver and Kayak and get them into the hands of teachers. Even cooler, however, he is hoping to expand a pilot project he worked on last summer in which, using Google Maps, readers are able to locate Beaver stories geographically, following 'pins', colour-coded by subject, in a map of Canada. To find out more, go to the new blog that Ralph is offering.