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Learning Page Chat, October 16, 2003: Immigration...The Changing Face of America LeniD joined the room. BjB: when Leni shares a URL it will appear as a hyperlink TaunjaC: Is this where the immigration chat is going to take place? BjB waves hi to Leni BjB: Yes, Taunja MidgeF: also waves hi to old friend Leni PaulaR: You are at the right place. TaunjaC: Thank you! LeniD: Hello BJ and Midge :-) Hi William, Taunja, Paula and Allison! BjB waves hi to Leni again AllisonHa: hello PaulaR: Hi Leni. TaunjaC: Hello WilliamP: hey LeniD: Some old friends and some new ones are here tonight...this will be fun! MichaelH joined the room. MichaelH waves BjB: Hi, Michael. Ready to get us started? LeniD: I have so much to show you tonight, that I'd like to get started...Hi, Michael...just in time to kick off our chat! MichaelH: Hi, Leni, BJ! I'm all set MichaelH: Welcome to tonight's Learning Page Chat. Leni's got some great resources to share tonight, so let's get started! We'll start with introductions... anyone like to start us off? BjB: I'm an art teacher in Pennsylvania and a helpdesk volunteer for Tapped In WilliamP: I would like to introduce Leni MichaelH gives William the floor LeniD: Go for it, William :-) WilliamP: I was KIDDING! LeniD: LOL! I'm Leni Donlan. I coordinate the Learning Page project at the Library of Congress. MidgeF: I'm a technology consultant, author and amateur genealogist living in Massachusetts. I have a Web page on Ellis Island for teachers. MichaelH is a technology curriculum facilitator in a small school district in southwestern Indiana AllisonHa: I'm an elementary technology coordinator from Georgia, USA PaulaR: I am an eighth grade literature teacher from Pickens, SC. WilliamP: I am a musician from Nawlins TaunjaC: I am a 5th grade LA/SS teachers in sc MichaelH: Leni, I think that's everyone for now:) LeniD: Thank you so much for joining us this evening. In just a minute, I'll be sharing with you resources you can use with your students, with your staff, or by yourself as you develop plans to teach about immigration. Before I do this, however, let's take a moment to think about how you can effectively USE primary sources with your students. LeniD: I know some of you attended yesterday's chat with John Raymond. John is doing some wonderful work with models and tools for "doing" history. MidgeF: It was cool. LeniD: And what is "doing" history? SueHu joined the room. LeniD: Well, think about how students work with hands-on, inquiry based science problems or experiments. SueHu: Am I in the right room? AAM? LeniD: Sue, this is the Learning Page chat ...I hope to see many AAM participants here. GailP joined the room. LeniD: We are talking about "doing" history...and comparing it to doing science. GailP: Ahhh - like yesterday MidgeF: good bumper sticker (genealogists do history) LeniD: Setting the stage, Gail :-) PaulaR: That makes it more fun...less boring LeniD: Good one, Midge! MichaelH: more insightful... what did the source mean versus reading an interpretation by a history text LeniD: Students have... raw materials to use...they have a process to follow...and they have to "figure something out" (form an hypothesis) based on the results and observations of their process and their teacher's guiding questions. LeniD: Right on, Michael! LeniD: To "do" history, one can use this same model. Provide the raw materials; provide a process; guide their thinking with challenging questions; provide time for investigation; and require an "outcome" allowing students to show what they have discovered. LeniD: What are the raw materials? MichaelH: photos... LeniD: What might the process be? LeniD: It could be the "observe, think and ask"
process described in the Looking
Into Holidays Past...Through Primary Sources activity from the
Learning Page: MidgeF: I feel a new project coming on KathleenR joined the room. MichaelH: reminds all to check what Leni is showing us, but come back here in a couple of minutes MidgeF: I just used this page with a class! LeniD: GailP is the author of this wonderful activity. LeniD: Wow...that's great, Midge. GailP: Thanks, Leni LeniD: Perhaps you will want to use the graphic
organizer offered in the activity to have students record their
process. MichaelH reminds all the graphic organizer opens as an Adobe Acrobat file... :) AllisonHa: nice activity sheet GailP: The organizer is simple, but it works for any
kind of primary resource! And here is the Fall
version of this activity. MidgeF: even genealogy GailP: right, Midge! LeniD: This organizer is one of my favorite tools.
I'm going to move you along, since there is still much to show... DougGst4 joined the room. PaulaR: This is neat! LeniD: So...as I show you resources, think about how you will set the stage... what you will have your students do... how you will guide their process... and how you will have them share what they observe, what they know from prior knowledge, what they "think" they know (hypothesis)... and what they want to find out! TaunjaC: I think before guiding them, you must introduce them to the material, so they have some idea of what the content is. PaulaR: The kids might even have artifacts that they could bring in. TaunjaC: That would be good, bringing in their prior knowledge AllisonHa: Reading an article, short story, excerpts from a book might help introduce GailP: And when they do that, they begin to have ownership of the project! LeniD: Now..are you ready to take a look at some resources from the Library of Congress? MichaelH is ready LeniD: Let's start with some Lesson Plans...from the Learning Page to your classroom... For high school... MidgeF: This is just right for the workshop I'm doing LeniD: For the upper elementary and middle school crowd... RosalineJ joined the room. AllisonHa: D the R Hole looks like a really good learning
experience GailP: the great thing is that you can use part or all of these lessons and adapt them to your own class WilliamP: Whoever wrote this one HAS to be a genius: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/dream/index.html PaulaR: Neat project on the last URL LeniD: LOL...good one, William :-) SueHu: great resource MidgeF: Leni buys lunch tomorrow SueHu: sounds good to me AllisonHa: william did you create it? it looks like a WebQuest LeniD: Super...yer on, Midge! WilliamP: Wish I had, but no MidgeF: Has Bernie Dodge seen this? AllisonHa: what was funny then - william? LeniD: I created America Dreams with my American Memory Fellows partner, Kathleen Ferenz, in 1997. :-) WilliamP: LENI wrote it AllisonHa: ok - i suspected someone in the room did LeniD: It is a WebQuest and Bernie has had it on the WebQuest page for some time, now. MidgeF: Good SueHu: can we see it? LeniD: See what you started, William? :-) Please share it again. WilliamP: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/dream/index.html LeniD: Thanks :-) PaulaR: Great job, Leni....You are the genius. LeniD ::::blush::::::: MidgeF: WebQuest writing is a lot of work. LeniD: Yes, it is, Midge. TaunjaC: Don't say that, we have to write one in the near future. LeniD: But they are a great deal of fun to create, Taunja! TaunjaC: I hope so, I have looked at many and they seem to be very helpful in integrating the traditional curriculum and the tech. standards LeniD: Its a good model, Taunja. LeniD: Moving you along... Have you seen the Learning
Page Collection Connections? They provide contextual information about
a specific collection...and suggested teaching strategies to try. Here
are some examples to use for a study of immigration: KimberlyJ joined the room. LeniD: This collection connection is wonderful... SueHu: I love the photos LeniD: Great, Sue! SueHu: I needed this about 1 month ago! I'll have to go back and show my students TaunjaC: Me too, we just finished our immigration study. LeniD: I'm sorry to hear this is a "day late" for some of you :-( TaunjaC: Will these sites be available next year too? AllisonHa: someone just used the picture of the three boys as a critical thinking lesson. Which one do you think is the leader of the group GailP: But there is NEXT year :-) LeniD: And now ...resources for your students.... SueHu: My home state! LeniD: Port
of Entry (another Learning Page activity) LeniD: So much to show...so little time :-) MidgeF: I'll add that to my Ellis Island page LeniD: Are you hanging in there, folks? MichaelH is good :) LeniD: Today in History... MidgeF: I use that site with elementary teachers SueHu: GREAT! AllisonHa: i wish i had lots of time to explore... LeniD: It works through middle school, Midge. PaulaR: My husband just went to EllisIsland.com and found out about his grandfather coming in to the US. I will have to show him this, too. LeniD: Excellent, Paula. :-) GailP: Students in my colleague's 5th grade, the class made an immigration scrapbook - they divided into groups (Ellis Island, medical, housing, etc.) and researched the topic for primary sources. Each group entered a page or two into the scrapbook! They dressed in "costume" and invited other classes to their primary source event! A memorable event! SueHu: interesting MidgeF: http://www.midgefrazel.net/ellisisland.html LeniD: It was a WONDERFUL project, eh Gail? PaulaR: great idea, Gail LeniD: Thanks for your URL, Midge! TaunjaC: Great idea, I may use it next year PaulaR: Thanks, Midge. MidgeF: I have grandparents that came thru Ellis Island but I haven't put them up on the page yet LeniD: We will keep checking back, Midge :-) LeniD: And for you, the teacher/librarian/media specialist... LeniD: From the Local History and Genealogy Research
Center... LeniD: That may be helpful to you, especially, Midge. MidgeF: yummy PaulaR: Wow... nice, Leni GailP: have you seen the wonderful movie of immigrants
getting off the ship? Scroll down on this
page MidgeF: Thomas Edison's movie...yup got it. TaunjaC: The kids love movie clips that show life "back then" SueHu: That's great LeniD: From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division... GailP: When we had our "immigrant event" we had this looping in the background. LeniD: Nice touch, Gail :-) GailP: Thanks Leni LeniD: From the Learning Page, a workshop for educators
- The Second
Wave: European Immigration from 1850 - 1920 MidgeF: It's so great having real pictures TaunjaC: The is the time period I cover. Thanks! LeniD: There is so much on the Library's web sites...hope we can help you to find "just" the right resources. PaulaR: My car looks more comfy than his! HA LeniD: A Learning Page feature, Immigration:
The Changing Face of America KathleenR: Fabulous! MidgeF: I know I found an image of the canopy over Plymouth Rock before the one that is there now but I can't find it again. KathleenR: Put the sound up! MidgeF: Our Pilgrim Immigrants GailP: Keep visiting this site - new content is added frequently! GailP: I love that sound file - Leni can tell you where to find it? LeniD: We just put up the section on German Immigration last week :-) PaulaR: Cool sound. RosalineJ: Great sound file. GailP: Leni, tell what ethnic groups will be coming.... LeniD: The sounds
can be found here... LeniD: We are working on African American right now...then Italian, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Scandanavian... KathleenR: If we put a sound file or graphic from your collection, how should we correctly cite it (in a citation section)? PaulaR: I wondered what that page had to do with the price of cakes in Pie Town???? GailP: Native American, Irish, Mexican, German...are complete. GailP: What did I forget? LeniD: Chinese:-) LeniD: Paula, the sounds files can be found from the links on that page :-) All the resources from the feature are there. TaunjaC: Wow you really have them categorized. This would be helpful to those teaching about how different cultures have settled different areas of the USA LeniD: Very much so... LeniD: and that leads beautifully into the next thing I want to share... LeniD: And now... MidgeF: drum roll SueHu: ooh GailP: I knew this was coming - get your taste buds ready LeniD: You and our students can help us tell America's
stories through.... KathleenR: Leni, if I link a sound file from LC to my web site, how do I correctly cite it? Just link it or indicate it was "obtained" from you? MidgeF: food GailP: Kathleen, we'll help you answer this later :-) KathleenR: Wow, That is set up so well. LeniD: Kathleen, there is a good section on copyright and citing sources in "getting started" on the learning page. TaunjaC: What do you mean? KathleenR: Ok. SueHu: this is great--students will love this site TaunjaC: FOOD? LeniD: We hope they will contribute to it, Sue. PaulaR: yes...Everyone can relate to food!!!! LeniD: Taunja, the foods of our nation tell much about our diverse culture, don't they? KathleenR: Can we contribute to this site--I mean food recipes? Or is it complete? MidgeF: William needs to put up immigrant Nawlins food SueHu: especially when you're 9 months pregnant, like me! RosalineJ: Food tells so much about a persons ethnicity. PaulaR: recipes from regions ...like the Foxfire Books LeniD: You can definitely add to this! TaunjaC: Yes, so the kids share recipes? LeniD: Yes :-) LeniD: AND their stories. PaulaR: Great LeniD: And join us soon in these projects... MidgeF: needs smell-a-vision GailP: The stories add so much to the recipes! SueHu: I have a Mexican girl that has wanted to share recipes with the class. LeniD: Please have her share, Sue! SueHu: I will. LeniD: Interviews
with Today's Immigrants GailP: Midge, coming in next months version! LeniD: And America
Dreams MidgeF: I expect so much from the Web LOL TaunjaC: Great, the kids would love this, and this could be tied in to LA standards, I usually use recipes to teach and assess writing instructions GailP: Well, how about the nation, Sue! LeniD: Perfect Taunja :-) KathleenR: Thanks. Had a good time. LeniD: I'm going to leave you at the Immigration
Community Center on the Learning Page: PaulaR: Can't wait to share... and read recipes from students LeniD: Here, you will find this month's featured theme, Immigration, with all the resources I just showed you (and MORE) in one place... SueHu: Thanks BJ: Next month's LOC discussion is November 20 LeniD: Looking forward to getting them, Paula! GailP: We'd love your input to our bibliography sections! TaunjaC: The kids would not only love to share their own recipes, but they would enjoy trying new foods. I would enjoy trying them too. Class Activity??? LeniD: And while you are in the Community Center, take a look at the upcoming themes...and join us again for one of our monthly, themed chats! GailP: Native American theme is coming up! PaulaR: Thanks for an enlightening evening. SueHu: Had a good time, LeniD LeniD: We want to have an office potluck, too, Taunja...it's definitely a class activity! MidgeF: How about Plymouth Rock ? I live near there and am working with the Pilgrim Hall Museum LeniD: You were a great group...we hope you got some ideas and found some resources that you can use. PaulaR: ? MichaelH applauds everyone! GailP: And come back next month :-) SueHu: Thanks again! LeniD: Yes, Paula? TaunjaC: Thanks, BYE PaulaR: Thanks WilliamP: Thanks, you guys always do a great job! (may I call you guys?) GailP: And visit the Learning
Page MidgeF: Love to... got lots of ideas RosalineJ: Thank you for the discussion LeniD: Thanks, William. You may call us guys :-) KarenL: Thanks, Leni. Great session! BJ waves goodnight. MichaelH waves LeniD: William...we will be in New Orleans in June...at NECC! LeniD: Thanks, Karen :-) WilliamP: REALLY??? KarenL: Ooh, I plan to be in N'awlins with you guys! MidgeF: Nice job. I have a couple questions for later.... MichaelH would love to go back to NECC LeniD: Midge, thanks for adding so much. MichaelH was in San Antonio in 2002 GailP: We will be at NCSS in Chicago, too! WilliamP: You'll be able to recognize me, because I'll have a rose in my teeth. MidgeF: I spoke at NECC (and I was scared) GailP: Can't wait, William! WilliamP: Gail does WONDERFUL bibliographies LeniD: Sounds as though we will have expert guides:-) GailP: Thank you William - GailP: But you have helped us immensely MidgeF: Night! LeniD: Gail does a great deal of wonderful Learning Page content. GailP: Keep your titles coming WilliamP: Thanks. GailP: Native Americans is next! GailP: Oh Leni - blush GailP: Bye! LeniD: Bye William :-) LeniD: Thanks for your help, Michael :-) LeniD: Night Karen and Gail. GailP: This was a good discussion tonight, wasn't it! MichaelH was glad to help out LeniD: It was a terrific group! |
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