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Poster: "Dimartino, Lydia" <DIMARTINL@BURGIN.K12.KY.US>
Subject: Re: '98 Fellows' lessons
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Hello, everyone!
This is our official "posting" of our field-tested lesson. You can
find "That's Entertainment" at:
www.burgin.k12.ky.us/21.htm
Hope everyone is healthy. Oh, and by the way, Laura is going to
have a baby!
Lydia DiMartino
Burgin Independent Schools
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> From: Judith K. Graves[SMTP:jgrav@loc.gov]
> Reply To: American Memory Fellows
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list AMFELLOWS
> Subject: '98 Fellows' lessons
>
> Hi Everyone,
> '97 Fellows remember well the angst of lesson development, testing,
> and
> writing!! They feel your pain of non-working computers, promises of
> classroom wiring, software glitches, end of term reports conflicting
> with
> lesson development demands, life issues, and on and on and on.
>
> I also know what you are doing this year, incorporating new materials,
> seeing if they work, finding the black holes that don't pop up until
> you
> are in them, trying to cram one more thing into already overcrowded
> schedules, and then the little problems of life - family, friends, and
> -heaven forbid- sleep!
>
> On April 1, road-tested lesson plans are due to the Library. Don't
> let
> that send a shudder through you.... I don't want to see anything
> final at
> this point - it's just too soon for everyone. On that date - not
> before -
> I would like to have an email message from each team telling me your
> team's
> status, with a URL where the lesson resides (if there is a URL). If
> the
> lesson isn't up anywhere (with time constraints and technology
> glitches, it
> would be a wonder if it is!), we'll use email and/or fax. We'll use
> whatever works for each team.
>
> I know the previous paragraph sounds terribly forbidding, but here's
> the
> reason why I want to check in with each team:
>
> Remember my talk at the institute when I said that we want good
> lessons,
> not fancy HTML? That's still true. Trust your professional judgement
> and
> create what you feel is the best lesson with the topic and materials
> you've
> chosen.
>
> Your lessons will reside on a website, not in a file folder or on
> paper.
> Writing for the web is as different as writing for the newspaper is
> from
> writing a composition or paper. By stepping into the process in
> April, I
> hope to guide you through the final writing process. The Library has
> a
> writing style guide and a technical style guide that we must follow.
> It's
> my job to help prepare your lessons to comply with that style. The
> Fellows
> Toolkit has some information on web style that will be helpful to you.
> Look at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/amfp/toolkit/intro.html
>
> In addition, we are writing for an audience that may know nothing
> about
> American Memory or using primary sources in learning. I'll also be
> looking
> at your lessons for ways that we can help this audience be successful
> with
> these lessons. I'll also be looking for ways that we can best present
> your
> lesson so that your ideas and creativity shine through.
>
> Please don't feel that you should know this technology or these
> guidelines
> already. And please, don't feel that you should give me the completed
> lesson on April 1. And please, please, know that just as your
> facilitators
> have been cheering you on throughout the school year, I'm going to be
> your
> staunchest cheerleader from now until your lesson's completion.
>
> We are about to embark on the writing process cycle, with feedback,
> drafting, feedback, mechanics. We'll work through the phases as time
> (and
> life) allows.
>
> Hope everyone has a great spring break,
> Judy, m.h.
> (It's snowing on the crocus and daffodil buds today. Sigh.)
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> Judith K. Graves
> Education Resources Specialist
> National Digital Library Program
> Library of Congress
> Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
> jgrav@loc.gov
> (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
>
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