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Poster: Carolyn Karis <ckaris@URBANSCHOOL.ORG>
Subject: Re: presenting AM with students
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Deborah Samaké and I (98 fellows) asked kids to join us for our presentation
of The Grandparent Project at CAIS (California Association of Independent
Schools). The kids were great and the teachers/administrators in attendance
were greatly impressed by the students. The students explained how they had
selected their research topics from their interviews and did a shortened
version of the oral presentation with visual which they had done as part of
the 20th Century History Course. We also brought some of the visuals and
papers done by other students. The students present helped to explain these
and answered questions from the audience. We had about 75 people in
attendance and the kids handled themselves very well. They also told us they
enjoyed gaining some insight into what teachers do at conferences.
I would second Monica's enthusiasm for this type of collaboration and
presentation. After the class work, our kids demonstrated the self-confidence
and knowledge that we said were our projects goals. They also added some new
insights.
Carolyn
Carolyn Karis
Herbst Library
Urban School of San Francisco
1563 Page Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
ckaris@urbanschool.org
AMFELLOWS@loc.gov writes:
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>Poster: "Monica R. Edinger" <edinger@DALTON.ORG>
>Subject: presenting AM with students
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>Has anyone else done conference or workshop presentations of American
>Memory with students? I decided to give it a try last week at the
>National Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference this past
>Thursday and was really pleased with the results. If you enjoy
>presenting, can do so without getting too anxious (and, thus, making the
>kids anxious), and are flexible I recommend it as a different way to get
>the word out about American Memory. What follows is how I went about
>doing this for anyone interested.
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>My main point though is that is that I urge everyone presenting this stuff
>to get the actual kids in to your presentations as much as you can. If
>you can't bring the kids then bring their work, videotape of them work,
>whatever helps people see the site USED by kids.
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>So, has anyone else tried something similar?
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>Monica
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>Monica Edinger
>The Dalton School
>New York
>edinger@dalton.org
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