Return to: Library of Congress Ad Hoc PLC

Meeting Agenda - July 21, 2009 - 12:00 pm Pacific

1. Introductions

2. Intentions, individual and group

3. What Library of Congress has for us (from self-study to the sources themselves)

4. Possible outcomes - Collaborate on lessons for kids

5. Possible outcomes - Outside recipients of our work-- NECC session on teaching with primary resources, distributed PLC, other ideas? OPB History Detectives (for educators), Gilder Lehrman.

6. Plan of attack

7. Next meeting - Week of August 17-21.

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Resources (please add)

NOTES

Could we use government and geography as a shared theme? DBQ essays would be part of the process. Document-based questions.

Interests - Where might we go together? 

Lesson study - what works. What else? 

Lisa: Always looking for new ways for students to learn. Excited about the materials. Need to learn to learn from primary sources.

Christine: Digital storytelling with primary source docs could be very interesting. Need to learn to evaluate docs so they can write the essay for the state standards.

Linda: primary sources a fascinating way to get kids to wonder and think like a historian. Local history documentation has been interesting -- deeds, maps, wills. Philly Hist Society. Used the novel Fever as a start.

Lisa: Less primary sources in the West. Help David make a connection.

Where we get Primary Sources

LOC is more than flat documents - audio, personal narratives, oral histories, local music, film.

Local Historical Societies - Trunks that come to schools...

Do we want to do a shared project? 

David and Lisa are interested in shared project. Linda too.

Lisa describes her geography project here. She's going to clean up her wiki.

https://southparisgeography.wikispaces.com/

Introduction to primary sources:  What's in my pockets?  - Read the section from TPS direct (Jane will link).

Kids could do voice threads where kids collaborate on (historical figure?)

Jane asks: What's the research requirement for kids? What would kids

Christine describes here: 

Technologies for connecting

OOVOO - video with a crew.

Elluminate  - Steve Hargadon - Connection to PBS Teachers Network

CILC.org - Video Conferencing organization that content providers contract through. Proprietary PolyCom or Tandberg Video-Conferencing System... (Some of the best events are offered through this)

Elyse Luray - Historian (based in ...?)

Jane to pull up names of the LOC people she met. 

Dennis Grice and an 8th grade teacher + Paul Bogush and his kids each serve as science experts to the 4th/5th grade kids in OR and NY.

Go through some of the modules in the LOC so we have a common framework.

Select some modules  - Report out -