by
Ann Canning
This is the week that all participants will have an opportunity in class to have a Zoom conversation in a break-out room with an assigned classmate. During that 20-minute time slot, you will be sharing ideas for adding to each other's Network Album and asking questions about how the album's primary sources can be used in a community of learners.
You have found many unique primary sources during this Leadership course, and your comments on our Canvas Discussion Board indicate that you searched both loc.gov and tpsteachersnetwork.org successfully. This week, we ask you to review your album description and the teacher notes section that is included in every primary source. If you have not already filled in some of these sections, add some specific inquiry questions and match your primary sources with one of the TPS inquiry strategies that you have experienced in class or earlier.
As you review the album created by your assigned peer review partner, we encourage you to share these observations about their album:
- One gem or outstanding primary source included in this album.
- One question you have about the album.
- One opportunity for adding to this album.
Thank you for this close read of primary sources and deep dive into the archives at loc.gov and this Network.
--Ann Canning
Welcome to the 2024 Spring Leadership Institute hosted by the TPS Eastern Region! This group is going to be your "go to" spot on the TPS Teachers Network during our six weeks together.
Your final project for the Institute is to create an album in this very group that has primary sources and inquiry learning activities for the learners you work with. Next week, your assignment is to identify a topic and audience to consider when searching for specific primary sources at loc.gov and here in this Network.
We hope that you will review the albums posted by your classmates and dialogue with them about their sources. We also hope that you will take advantage of the Ask A Mentor feature on the Network Home Page. The 16 Mentors are skilled at searching and using primary sources in many subjects and many age groups. Your request form for resources will be forwarded to someone interested in the subjects that you have chosen.
I am looking forward to your work and this group's exchange of teaching and learning ideas.
What original and creative albums have been developed for our Fall Leadership Institute! I am impressed with the variety of topics, the different formats and the sheer number of primary sources that you have found. Thank you for responding to your classmates and many thanks to the Network mentors and others in the Network but outside of our class who have suggested sources. I appreciate all comments as well as the thumbs up "like" response.
As you prepare for your peer review this week and then your class presentation during Week VI, here are a couple of tips repeated from our Week IV Module to improve your album's content and presentation look.
- Adding an image to replace the link you have for a text file or exhibit or collection. (Video Tutorial)
- Inserting a YouTube Link that will display as an image in your album
(Video Tutorial)
These enhancements will draw your viewers into the source more often than the link and title. When I download an album either as a webpage or a pdf to use with educators or students, it is the images followed by the descriptive text that works best for inquiry activities.
--Ann Canning
Greetings!
I am excited to report that there are 21 albums started here in our TPS Leadership Institute Group for our summer class. The topics are varied and timely and the primary sources you are finding are going to go far to engage students in deep historical inquiry.
This week, we hope that you will add tags that will help other Network members find your work. Go beyond the tags provided for subject and grade level and add some custom words for keywords that others may use to search for your topic.
And now that you have gained some experience searching at loc.gov and inside the TPS Teachers Network, why don't you apply your searching skills to one of your classmates' albums and find a primary source to share in a comment posted to their album. It is always amazing to me to see how a second set of eyes can uncover a different result list at loc.gov!
The best way to browse the most recent albums in our Group is to click on the album icon in the top banner for this group. (It looks like a photograph) That will open up all the albums and the default sort is is latest first. The first 21 in this sort will be from our Summer 2023 class.
Happy hunting to all of you!
--Ann Canning
Greetings to all new members of this group who will be attending our TPS Eastern Region Summer Leadership Institute (July 6-August 8,2023)
This is going to be the Network place for you to give and take away ideas for using primary sources for inquiry learning!
I am looking forward to reading about what you discover and how you plan to use primary sources with your community of learners.
What a robust group of albums have been emerging right before our eyes in this class! I am impressed with the variety of topics, the different formats and the sheer number of primary sources that you have found. Thank you for responding to your classmates and many thanks to the Network mentors and others in the Network but outside of our class who have suggested sources. I appreciate all comments as well as the thumbs up "like" response.
As you prepare for your peer review this week and then your class presentation during Week VI, here are a couple of tips repeated from our Week IV Module to improve your album's content and presentation look.
- Adding an image to replace the link you have for a text file or exhibit or collection. (Video Tutorial)
- Inserting a YouTube Link that will display as an image in your album
(Video Tutorial)
These enhancements will draw your viewers into the source more often than the link and title. When I download an album either as a webpage or a pdf to use with educators or students, it is the images followed by the descriptive text that works best for inquiry activities.
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