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Meeting Agenda -August 18, 2009  --- 10:00 am Pacific

1. Welcome Paul, Joyce, Terry, Sara H
2. Tech Trivia
   1. Sharing sources: Join PBL group in Diigo - organize bookmarks with tag LOC  http://groups.diigo.com/groups/projectbasedlearning See the current ones: http://groups.diigo.com/projectbasedlearning/bookmark/tag/LOC
   2. Migrate to a Google Site, have project spaces there everyone can lurk on/contribute to?
3. Update on what you found on LOC-What Library of Congress has for us (from self-study to the sources themselves)
4. Updates on project idea(s)
5. Planning
6. Update: 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.
7. Next meeting - TBD

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NOTES

Joyce suggests making google custom searches that narrow the parameters. Break it down for indivual projects

Different media present different research challenges. LOC tools for visual analysis are helpful. History Detectives also has a page that recommends ways different media are approached.

Jane suggests migrating work to a Google Site, folks agree. She will invite others to same.

Terry and Linda and Joyce recommend the use of local resources. Example: Department of digital projects at the Northern Illinois (or Missouri? - Mark Twain's Mississippi.)

Neat idea: Have students become curators of what they learn ... the reflection part is really helpful.

**Consider the opportunity to actually create primary sources, through interviews, photographs (William Penn)**

Jane's looking for a touchstone - human migration, settlement, exploration and settlement,

**Field tripping - kids visit as historians might, kids learn to represent... they take you on virtual walking tour. Kids could be docents. Illustrate using primary sources, both created and found.