Testing tools and AI - ideas what to try with some tool examples
Gail Petri 2012 ISTE presentation
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Free Digital Resources for Educators
Gail Petri, Education Resource Specialist gail.petri@gmail.com
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ISTE
San Diego, California
June 24-27, 2012
• Primary Source Activity
• Overview www.loc.gov
• What’s New Online
• Questions/Discussion
Gail Petri
gail.petri@gmail.com
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151.6 million
items
838 miles of
bookshelves
470 languages
22,000 items
arrive daily
10,000 items
added to the
collection daily
34.1+ million
items online
1.7 million
visitors
source
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Come visit
Why use primary sources? BOOTH
4641
for handouts!
Engage students...
Develop critical thinking
skills...
Help them construct
knowledge...
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Photo Analysis Activity
Form is:
Downloadable
AND
Fillable
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Observe this image
for 30 seconds…
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Jot down your
…observations
…reflections
…questions
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Bibliographic Information: This photograph was taken
by Russell Lee in June, 1941 in San Diego California.
Caption: Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security
Administration) camp for defense workers. This family is from
Minnesota. The man came to San Diego ten months ago and enrolled
in a vocational school. He started to work at Consolidated Aircrafts as
a riveter and is now a clerk in the machine shop. Before his family
came out three weeks ago he lived in a cabin for which he paid twelve
dollars per month. He said it was alright for a man but that he wouldn't
take his wife and children into such a place. He got a furnished
apartment for his family--it was two rooms, rental eleven dollars per
week. His wife soon discovered that there was inadequate hot water
and was overrun with roaches and rats.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000020751/PP/
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Pair/Share:
How might you
use this type of
activity with your
students.
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Tips for
navigating
www.loc.gov
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NEW
Object Display
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Toolbox
NEW
On many
pages
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NEW
Tools
NEW
Global
Search
NEW
Professional
Development
NEW
Blog
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NEW
Teachers Page - Professional
Development Resources
Poster Session
Tuesday 4-6
Free Online
Professional
Development
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NEW Teachers Page - Blog
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NEW
collection,
exhibit and
event highlights
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Save the
date!
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NEW
Read the list…
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NEW
Exhibitions
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NEW
historical
recordings
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NEW
historic
newspapers
Concurrent
Session
Tuesday
10:30 – 11:30
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NEW
global
resources
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Many NEW ways to
stay connected!
• Facebook • RSS/E-Mail • Podcasts
• Twitter • Blogs • Webcasts
• YouTube • iTunesU
• Flickr
• Ask a Librarian
• All ways to connect • Contact Us
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Just a few of the many
NEW
content resources!
• (Prints and Photographs) Carol Highsmith – California Images Coming
• (Prints and Photographs) War of 1812 Pictures
• (Prints and Photographs) Frances Benjamin Johnston Garden Lantern Slides
• (Veterans History) World War II Images for Download
• (Webcast) The Transit of Venus (June 5, 2012)
Have fun exploring www.loc.gov
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You will be
AMAZED
at what you
can find!
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Questions??
Visit Booth 4641
gail.petri@gmail.com
Notas do Editor
Aerial view of Capitol Hill featuring the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building behind the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007683665/
View of Dome in the main reading room in the Jefferson Building.
Aerial view showing the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, with East Capitol Street on the left and the James Madison Building on the right, Washington, D.C. (Carol Highsmith 2007) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007687112/
This handout is available for download on the Teachers Page. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/additionalresources/downloads/
This graphic organizer can be found on the Teachers Page and can be used in all analysis activities along with Teacher Guides available for each type of primary source format. (Teachers/Using Primary Sources/Teacher Guides and Analysis Sheets/Primary Source Analysis Tool) http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
Look closely at this image for 30 seconds. Click to view image.
Participants note what they observed. Click - Observing is only the first step and the process is circular. You may have ideas about what is happening in the picture. We all bring prior knowledge to our observations. What thoughts or reflections do you have about this image? What more would you like to know? What questions? Share a few with the group. Model the online analysis tool.
Read Caption: Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. This family is from Minnesota. The man came to San Diego ten months ago and enrolled in a vocational school. He started to work at Consolidated Aircrafts as a riveter and is now a clerk in the machine shop. Before his family came out three weeks ago he lived in a cabin for which he paid twelve dollars per month. He said it was alright for a man but that he wouldn't take his wife and children into such a place. He got a furnished apartment for his family--it was two rooms, rental eleven dollars per week. His wife soon discovered that there was inadequate hot water and was overrun with roaches and rats. What happens now – were you engaged – would you like to find out more?
Share for a minute with neighbor; share aloud; The LOC has millions of primary sources to choose from.
Observing is only the first step and the process is circular. You may have ideas about what is happening in the picture. We all bring prior knowledge to our observations. What thoughts or reflections do you have about this image? What more would you like to know? What questions? Share a few with the group.
Click to go live - get to know the layout of the page. - 3 columns – about the library – the stuff – what we do
Bottom half of page
This now searches the entire LOC site – one stop shopping -
Searches can now be narrowed down in many more ways..
Simple, clean layout – starting with 9,500 maps from Geography and Maps Division - improved zoom features - works better on mobile devices. Sample map: Bird's eye view of San Diego, California 1876 http://www.loc.gov/item/75693100 - DEMO page showing zoom features
Toolbox available on many pages – you can subscribe to related news and blogs; you can share, e-mail or save information.
New on the Teachers page-
15 modular activities in Build and Deliver – all downloadable and ready to use in pdf format 6 Online Modules - Earn a certificate of completion by taking the Library's self-paced interactive modules. Each multimedia-rich program delivers approximately one hour of staff development.
Subscribe to the blog – e-mail or rss – for News and Events; Primary Source Highlights; Primary Source Starters; Teaching Strategies and Teaching Tools.
Moving back to the home page - check the highlights on the top left for quick links to new collections, exhibits or events. Click on the icon and you will go
Click to link to Exhibits page.
Click to link to National Jukebox.
Chronicling America provides free access to millions of historic American newspaper pages. Listed here are topics widely covered in the American press of the time. We will be adding more topics on a regular basis. To find out what's new, sign up for Chronicling America’s weekly notification service, that highlights interesting content on the site and lets you know when new newspapers and topics are added. Go live to show Recommended Topics
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: Promote international and intercultural understanding; Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
The Library of Congress is acquiring 4,000 digital images documenting present-day California from distinguished photographer Carol M. Highsmith, who is traveling throughout the Golden State. Highsmith is photographing California during the next several months, in cities large and small, from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary celebration to El Centro’s vegetable fields and the world-famous Yosemite National Park. Highsmith’s California project is made possible by funding from the Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace. The collection will provide a valuable visual portrait of California at the beginning of the 21st century and will be given to the Library copyright-free. The images will be housed in the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division. These photographs are part of Highsmith’s This Is America! project, which will document America state by state over the next 15 years.
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing masses of children playing over, under, and around an enormous elephant - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005678564/
Domes of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building and the U.S.Capitol, Washington, D.C. (Carol Highsmith) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011630583/