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Primary Sources 2.0

"The future of research is digital"

• Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change: harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gutenberg-2-0

• "Stanford Ushers in the Age of Bookless Libraries" (NPR)

• "Digital Challenges for U.S. Public Libraries"(NPR)

• David Weinberger on "Digital Knowledge Properties

Inquiry Based Learning: Open Research and Guided Inquiry

1. meaningful question or activity
2. relevant and credible sources
3. engaging and interactive process

Best of History Web Sites: Research

Select History/Primary Source directories & activities:

• National Archives & Records Administration - (Social Media and Web 2.0) • Library of Congress for Teachers -Using Primary Sources • Gutenburg Project • The Avalon Project • University of Virginia Etext Center (Scholar's Lab) • C-Span Video Archive (article by NY Times) • Primary Source.org • EDSITEment lessons • Yale Digital Commons (Open Access) • Yale U: European History • Gallica (France) • National Archives (UK) • BBC Motion Gallery • In the First Person • Internet History Sourcebooks • Critical Past • Calisphere (California) • Art History (Museums & online resources)

Reading Like a Historian (Stanford History Education Group)

New ways of interacting with primary resources

• Digital Vaults • Turning the Pages Online Gallery • Crisis in Darfur • Civil War Faces on Flickr • Monticello Explorer • The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History • Why did Slavery Emerge in Virginia? • Tenement Virtual Tour: • Virtual Tour of the Vatican • A Tour of Ancient Athens

US Holocaust Memorial Museum World Memory Project

New tools for interacting with primary resources

• Sribd • Issuu • Buzzword • Google Docs • myebook; many others!

Issuu & Issuu Youtube tutorial channel

Example of an Issuu Customized Primary Source Reader

Scribd & Scribd 101 Tutorials

Example of a Scribd Customized Primary Source Reader

Scribd vs. Issuu Youtube video

Google Docs Youtube tutorial channel

Myebook

Wix (Flash website Creation Tool)

THWT page on e-books

THWT page on note-taking and archiving

THWT page on social bookmarking

Mapping & Statistics Resources (Supplemental Resources to Explore)

Mapping Worlds

World Mapper

Our Changing World

Conflict History (War & Conflict Across the Globe: Timeline & Map)

Gap Minder

National Geographic Mapmaker Interactive

THWT page on Mapping

History Classroom 2.0 Blog Post: Mapping & Statistics 2.0

Workshop Reflection

Take a few minutes to compose an email reflection on the one day Primary Sources 2.0 Workshop.

What is your favorite resource we explored?
How might this impact & change your classroom practice?
Include a link to a resource
Provide any additional thoughts & resources that may be helpful

Send your email to: primarysource20@posterous.com

All of the emails will be automatically posted to a blog about this workshop:

www.primarysource20.posterous.com

Exit Survey

Please complete our workshop survey before you leave. Thanks!

Discussion Forum

Please introduce yourself!

Started by Tom Daccord. Last reply by Cara Hamilton Aug 4, 2011. 33 Replies 0 Likes

Please tell us a bit about yourself...

I am introducing myself.

Started by Nicole Pelletier Aug 4, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Hi. I am Nicole. I teach AP World History and World History. I added a photo of myself, so I hope it shows up. Anyhoo, looking forward to learning a lot more. Though my brain is pretty fried after…Continue

What I want from the seminar -

Started by Patrick D. Niles Jun 30, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

New ways of teaching primary sources and to start to use technology differently than in the past few years. More and more research will be done on the internet and I would like my students to be able…Continue

Hi,