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Women's History Sources - Primary Sources in Archives, Historic Sites and Museums, and ... - 40 views

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shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 15 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 15 Mar 11
     
    Women's History Sources is a collaborative blog that serves as a current awareness tool for anyone who is interested in primary sources at archives, historic sites and museums, and libraries. Some of the types of sources that the blog covers: * New exhibits in archives, libraries, and museums * New digital collections (artifacts, diaries, oral histories, photos, etc.) * Featured objects/documents from other blogs and websites * "In the News" - stories that feature original documents or artifacts. * "On this Day" - digital resources that are related to an event on a specific date. * Recent books that include letters, diaries, photographs, etc. Audience 1. Archivists, Librarians, and Museum curators/personnel 2. Historians 3. College students 4. K-12 Teachers 5. General public with an interest in women's history Geographic Coverage Although the initial emphasis has been on women in United States history, the blog will become international in scope as the list of contributors grows. Contributors The blog will include archivists, historians, librarians, and museum professionals. Please contact Ken Middleton (ken.middlet@gmail.com) if you are interested in being a blog contributor.
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Reintroducing students to Research - 144 views

homepages.gac.edu/...LakeForest.html research resources tools
shared by Marc Hamlin on 01 Dec 12 - Cached
  • First, we think research, broadly defined, is a valuable part of an undergraduate education. Even at a rudimentary level, engaging in research implicates students in the creation of knowledge. They need to understand that knowledge isn’t an inert substance they passively receive, but is continually created, debated, and reformulated—and they have a role to play in that process.
  • we recognize that research is situated in disciplinary frameworks and needs to be addressed in terms of distinct research traditions.
  • research is a complex and recursive process involving not just finding information but framing and refining a question, perhaps gathering primary data through field or lab work, choosing and evaluating appropriate evidence, negotiating different viewpoints, and composing some kind of response, all activities that are not linear but intertwined.
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  • learning to conduct inquiry is itself complex and recursive. These skills need to be developed throughout a research project and throughout a student’s education.
  • the hybrid nature of libraries today requires students to master both traditional and emerging information formats, but the skills that students need to conduct effective inquiry—for example, those mentioned in your mission statement of reading critically and reasoning analytically—are the same whether the materials they use are in print or electronic.
  • Too often, traditional research paper assignments defeat their own purpose by implying that research is not discovery, but rather a report on what someone else has already discovered. More than once I’ve had to talk students out of abandoning a paper topic because, to their dismay, they find out it’s original. If they can’t find a source that says for them exactly what they want to say—better yet, five sources—they think they’ll get in trouble.
  • In reality, students doing researched writing typically spend a huge percentage of their time mapping out the research area before they can focus their research question. This is perfectly legitimate, though they often feel they’re spinning wheels. They have to do a good bit of reading before they really know what they’re looking for.
  • she has students seek out both primary and secondary sources, make choices among them, and develop some conclusions in presentations that are far from standard literary criticism. One lab focuses on collecting and seeking relationships among assigned literary texts and other primary sources from the second half of the twentieth century to illuminate American society in that time period.
  • For this lab, groups of students must find ten primary sources that relate in some way to literary texts under discussion and then—here’s the unusual bit—write three new verses of “America the Beautiful” that use the primary sources to illuminate a vision of American society. Instead of amber waves of grain and alabaster cities, they select images that reformulate the form of the song to represent another vision of the country. At the end of the course, her final essay assignment calls upon all of the work the previous labs have done, asking students to apply the skills they’ve practiced through the semester. While students in this course don’t do a single, big research project, they practice skills that will prepare them to do more sophisticated work later.
  • Marc Hamlin on 01 Dec 12
     
    What are our assumptions about how students get research done in the humanities? How do those assumptions affect our instruction, and what really is our students' approach to research?
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History Journeys: Awesome Stories - Primary Sources and the Stories Behind Them - 112 views

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shared by Michael Sheehan on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 05 Feb 13
     
    Extensive collection of history related resources and the stories behind them.
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Well Endowed By Our Creator: Did George Washington Really Invent Viagra? | text2cloud - 6 views

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  • anonymous on 27 Feb 12
     
    Can we use the current primary season to turn attention back to primary sources from U.S. History--the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the writings of the nation's first president? I'm trying to find a way to write about these matter that has a chance high school and college students. Thus, satire, parody are in the mix.
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Milestone Documents  ·  Your primary source for historic texts and analysis. - 87 views

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shared by Jennifer Carey on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Carey on 05 Aug 11
     
    Great resource for primary sources.
  • Dianne Hugdahl on 06 Aug 11
     
    Yes I would agree. National History Day must tool.
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America in Class | primary sources for history & literature teachers - 89 views

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 08 Sep 13
     
    The National Humanities Center presents America in Class®: primary and secondary resources, online seminars, and lessons for history and literature teachers.
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Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools - 2 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
  • Traditional education in areas like phonics, the chronology of history and mental arithmetic remain but modern media and web-based skills and environmental education now feature.
  • The skills that let kids use Internet technologies effectively also work in the real world: being able to evaluate resources critically, communicating well, being careful with strangers and your personal information, conducting yourself in a manner appropriate to your environment. Those things are, and should be, taught in schools. It’s also a good idea to teach kids how to use computers, including web browsers etc, and how those real-world skills translate online.
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  • I think teaching kids HOW TO use Wikipedia is a step forward from ordering them NOT TO use it, as they presently do in many North American classrooms.
  • Open Source software is the future and therefore we need to concentrate on the wheels and not the vehicle!
  • Core skills is very important. Anyone and everyone can learn Photoshop & Word Processing at any stage of their life, but if core skills are missed from an early age, then evidence has shown that there has always been less chance that the missing knowledge could be learnt at a later stage in life.
  • Schools shouldn’t be about teaching content, but about learning to learn, getting the kind of critical skills that can be used in all kinds of contexts, and generating motivation for lifelong learning. Finnish schools are rated the best in the world according to the OECD/PISA ratings, and they have totally de-emphasised the role of content in the curriculum. Twitter could indeed help in the process as it helps children to learn to write in a precise, concise style - absolutely nothing wrong with that from a pedagogical point of view. Encouraging children to write is never a bad thing, no matter what the platform.
  • Front end stuff shouldn’t be taught. If anything it should be the back end gubbins that should be taught, databases and coding.
  • So what’s more important, to me at least, is not to know all kinds of useless facts, but to know the general info and to know how to think and how to search for information. In other words, I think children should get lessons in thinking and in information retrieval. Yes, they should still be taught about history, etc. Yes, it’s important they learn stuff that they could need ‘on the spot’ - like calculating skills. However, we can go a little bit easier on drilling the information in - by the time they’re 25, augmented reality will be a fact and not even a luxury.
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
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U.S. History Lessons | Stanford History Education Group - 59 views

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shared by Stacy Olson on 16 May 13 - No Cached
    • Kevin Walsh
      Kevin Walsh on 16 May 13
       
      Great website with tremendous resources and lessons using primary sources!
  • Kevin Walsh on 16 May 13
     
    Great resource of primary sources for American History.
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Primary Source Analysis Tool - Library of Congress - 76 views

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  • Stacy Olson on 19 Mar 13
     
    Web tool form recording responses to a primary source.
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Primary Source Document List - 80 views

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  • Derek Allison on 01 Jul 12
     
    Click to expand for each topic .. primary source documents
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Archiving Early America - 84 views

www.earlyamerica.com primary source social studies education resources
shared by Kelly Boushell on 19 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Kelly Boushell on 19 Jul 11
     
    Here at Archiving Early America you will be rewarded with a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings come to life just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than 250 years ago.
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Teacher Resources | Library of Congress - 6 views

www.loc.gov/teachers resources libraryofcongress primary sources teacher resources CommonCore
shared by Kevin Kaeser on 19 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tanya Hudson on 19 Nov 12
     
    "The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations."
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American History Resource Center - 61 views

www.wadsworth.com/...AmerHis-ch01.html socialstudies history ushistory maps images pictures documents primarysources timeline
shared by Derek Allison on 01 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Derek Allison on 01 Jul 12
     
    USHistory resources: primary source documents, maps, timelines, images, and more .. really an amazing set of information to be used.
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100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars » Online Universities - 2 views

www.onlineuniversities.com/...h-engines-for-serious-scholars search searchengine academic googlescholar
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Oct 12
     
    "Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they're working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn't wasted on unprofessional resources."
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Search the Digital Archives - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 19 views

www.jfklibrary.org/...arch-the-Digital-Archives.aspx primarysource JFK history media audio speeches
shared by Steve Ransom on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 25 Jan 11
     
    Great resource here for history topics. Access to all kinds of primary sources, including audio files, related to the JFK administration.
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Heutagogy Explained: Self-Determined Learning in Education | Schoology - 12 views

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  • Xiaojing Kou on 23 Apr 20
     
    "nd parallel with how people learn best outside of a school setting. The teacher serves more as a coach-a valuable resource to be tapped if necessary, but not the primary source of knowledge."
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Random Thoughts on History: Why does history keep changing? - 43 views

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shared by Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      Read this article about why history changes and answer the questions that are the sticky notes throughout the article.
  • But, how we view something of the past is largely due to our own past and present experiences.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      What do you think the author means in the highlighted text "but how we view something of the past is largely due to our own past and present experiences"?
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  • Secondly, but along the same lines as the above explanation, is that the people writing history change as well
  • The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s brought many women historians into what had largely been a male dominated field and introduced new perspectives and told new stories that had previously been undiscovered (unfortunately, due to lack a of male interest) or ignored (unfortunately, due to a lack of male interest).
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      What new perspective could women bring to the study of history? Why would it be different then a mans perspective?
  • History was once written largely only through limited primary sources; letters, journals, diaries, and newspapers, and of course, secondary sources-what others had already written. But historians not so long ago began to "think outside the box," and by using sources such as estate
  • inventories, court documents, and even oral histories, these historians opened up a world of new information.
  • Locating new information of course changed how we saw events of the past, and only naturally new interpretations developed...and in this way one could say history changed.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      How would new information change history? 
  • Lastly, and related to the third, is that the availability of research sources have changed...largely through technology
  • All of this makes researching much easier and much less frustrating for the historian, and it allows him or her more time to make critical decisions, and to explore avenues that would not otherwise be considered.
    • Julie Sully
      Julie Sully on 25 Nov 14
       
      Why would having access to all of these resources benefit historians?
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WORLD HISTORY SOURCES - 96 views

chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources history sources primary sources reference tools
shared by Jennifer Carey on 23 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Jennifer Carey on 23 Jul 11
     
    Great resource and ideas for teachers of world history in high school and college
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