Overview

Today’s class will focus on finding and curating historical content – in this case images. Our focus will be on sourcing material that is in public domain using our historical archive resources.

Most materials are in the public domain if they were produced before 1923. I see this as roughly equivalent to everything that happened in the world up to and including World War I! If you’re looking for newspaper articles in Chronicling America, they are available up to 1963.

Primary sources produced by the federal government are normally in the public domain both before and after the magic copyright date of 1923. That explains why we as teachers can use the fabulous oral history interviews of former slaves collected between 1936 and 1938 by workers from the Federal Writers’ Project.

Class Session

a. Class will open with a discussion of last week’s class. Our focus will be on teaching strategies that work and our impressions of using Parlay.

b. Next, Peter will share some information on public domain and Creative Commons. Students will use the Creative Commonssearch tools to find a suitable image for a “featured image” for last week’s post.

c. He will also share strategies for searching using a selection of historical archives.  Students will then practice:

1. find a historical image
2. download it
3. get citation information and source URL
4. adding image to practice post
5. include citation with active hyperlink back to source in image caption 

See student assignment and resources here https://edmethods.com/classes-21/class-2-take-a-closer-look-2/