June 2, 2009
*** We are nearing our capacity for this event so please complete your online registration
at http://beta.lva.virginia.gov/lib-edu/teacher-workshops.asp to reserve your space!***
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Edward L. Ayers, noted historian and president of the University of Richmond
"Making the Past Present: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Classroom"
Dates: June 22–23, 2009
· JUNE 22, 2009, 7PM EVENING RECEPTION
· JUNE 23, 2009 REGISTRATION BEGINS AT 8:30 AM, KEYNOTE AT 9AM, WORKSHOPS 10:15 AM - 5PM; LUNCH PROVIDED
Sponsors:
LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES NORTHERN VIRGINIA PARTNERSHIP, and PATRICK HENRY COMMITTEE AND ST. JOHN’S CHURCH FOUNDATION
Registration:
Visit http://beta.lva.virginia.gov/lib-edu/teacher-workshops.asp .
Cost: $25.00 per person
Description:
Teaching and Learning with Digital Primary Sources: A Conference for Virginia’s K-12 Social Studies Educators that will explore and demonstrate how teachers can find and use the Library of Congress and the Library of Virginia’s Digitized Primary Sources to enhance social studies instruction through interactive presentations and hands on activities. Educators will learn strategies for finding and using digitized materials to invigorate social studies inquiry in the classroom.
Professional Development:
Attendees will receive a certification of completion that may be turned in for professional development points with the Virginia Department of Education.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edward L. Ayers, "Making the Past Present: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Classroom"
Dr. Edward L. Ayers is currently the president of the University of Richmond and previously was the Dean of Arts and Science at the University of Virginia. A historian of the American South and pioneer in digital history, Ayers created The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, a website that has attracted millions of users and won major prizes in the teaching of history.
Session Titles: (When registering please indicate top 3 session choices.)
· Discover the Library of Congress
How do primary sources challenge and inspire our memory, reason, and imagination? Through a TPSNVA model activity, Images Draw You In, participants will discover the amazing breadth and depth of the Library of Congress’ digital primary sources and ways to find and use them to connect to students’ experiences and the curriculum.
· The Art of Reading Primary Sources
Your students can read primary sources such as documents, letters, photographs, maps, and paintings from the Library of Congress’ American Memory collections. Explore reading strategies that do “double duty” as historical inquiry strategies to challenge students to read, think, and use what they know about a subject to make sense of the material.
· Using Primary Sources to Build Big Ideas
How do we know when our students really understand something? How can we use primary sources to develop flexible understanding of ideas and concepts central to our discipline? Based upon the Teaching for Understanding, or (TfU) framework, participants will actively explore, investigate, and use digital historical sources that demonstrate different perspectives to build and assess student understanding
· New Technologies and Digital Primary Sources – Introduction to Primary Source Learning
New technologies provide opportunities for students to ask questions and make discoveries with digital primary sources. Participants will receive an introduction to Primary Source Learning that allows teachers to create an individual portfolio, access a searchable database of field tested learning experiences, and utilize online tools that develop students’ content knowledge, challenge thinking patterns, and develop 21st century literacy skills.
· Practical Movie Making with Digital Media
Learn how you and your students can become movie-makers by creating digital documentaries using primary sources and other digital media. This session will feature the web-based tool, Primary Access, from the University of Virginia.
· Virginia Resources, Regions, and Revolutions
Experience Virginia’s legacy and diversity through primary sources. Interact with Library of Congress materials related to Virginia’s economic resources, geographic regions, and revolutionary moments in American history through hands on activities that can be replicated with students.
· Liberty or Death: Securing the Blessings of Liberty
This session will use primary source documents to examine and describe the role of Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, English common law tradition, and the Virginia Company of London Royal Charter in shaping the thinking of American colonists. In addition the session will explain John Locke’s theory of natural rights and how Locke’s ideas and Patrick Henry’s protests are articulated in the Declaration of Independence.
· Shaping the Constitution: Resources from the Library of Virginia and the Library of Congress
This session will be a one-stop shop for documents, images, historical and biographical information related to the Founding Era and subsequent amendments to the US Constitution that brought African Americans and women in to the American body politic in the 19th and 20th centuries.
· Mining a (Digital) Treasure House: A Guide to the Online Resources at the Library of Virginia
In this session, participants will receive an overview of the digital content available for the Library of Virginia web site VirginiaMemory.org, including online photographic collections, legislative petitions, business records, and broadside, all of which can be used to bring Virginia and US history to life in your classroom.
