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Alan Edwards

Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History - 2 views

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Mesopotamia

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  • Alan Edwards on 07 Nov 09
     
    This website on Mesopotamia and early civilizations is maintained by The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. It provides a wealth of information about the early civilization between the two rivers and includes great photos of artifacts, teaching materials, and interviews with archaeologists. For students, it might be fun to use this site as a webquest, where they would have to explore the site to answer questions.
Alan Edwards

Race & Place: An African American Community - 0 views

www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/...index.html

African American History The South Webquest Virginia Oral Newspaper Map Timeline

shared by Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
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      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      This website was created and maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History, the Carter Woodson Center for African and Afro-American Studies, and the University of Virginia. You can contact these folks about the project via email.
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      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      The site emphasizes a great holistic approach to studying an African American community in Virginia after the fall of the Confederate States of America and up through the first half of the twentieth century. They include oral histories, maps of Charlottesville, census reports, city records, political materials, personal papers of residents, newspapers (including two African American papers), as well as images.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      For educators, I think this might be a great way to teach Jim Crow and/or Reconstruction in the South through exploratory web quests. If the students have access to computers in a school, they could investigate the website at their own pace and answer essential questions or pose questions themselves for others to answer. Also, teachers could use the primary sources as classroom aides for their students to examine.
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