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Introduction to the Library of CongressGet an overview of the digitized materials and K-12 resources from the Library of Congress. Supporting Inquiry with Primary Sources Teachers and students demonstrate how primary sources can be used to support inquiry learning. Inquiry encourages students to draw on their prior knowledge, personal experiences and critical thinking skills to construct meaning.

At Quakertown High School, cyber teachers are using screencasting to teach students. Cyber students are using screencasting to teach other students. At Palisades High School, the library media specialist is creating screencast tutorials and posting them online for students, staff, and the public to use as a resource. The multimedia communications teacher is asking her students to develop screencasts to serve as tutorials or product comparisons. Screencasting is a tool that can be used by teachers or students to: *demonstrate any online or electronic process *provide feedback and/or assessment of an online document or presentation This webinar will show examples of various types of screencasts and teach you how to create a screencast and make it accessible to your students via digital curation or other methods. NOTE: You do need to enter your name and email address to attend, but once you enter that information, the webinar will start to play.

Scroll down the page to find 20+ archived sessions from the Discovery Educator Network's Spring Virtual Conference (4/20/13).