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Poster: "Judith K. Graves" <jgrav@LOC.GOV>
Subject: NEH summer institute
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Hi Everyone,
This is a summer institute sponsored by NEH and run by a '98 Fellow, Arnold
Pulda. Perhaps y'all might know some folks who would be interested in
attending. Whatever Arnold does will be timely, challenging, and enjoyable.
Judy
A New Media Classroom Summer Institute on "Local Events, (Inter)National
Significances: Using Local Materials in Teaching U.S. History and Culture"
Location: Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Date: July 16-July 21, 2000
Registration Deadline: 2000-04-21
This weeklong institute is open to secondary and college teachers,
librarians and media specialists, community and museum educators.
The New Media Classroom, An NEH Summer Seminar: The American Social History
Project (CUNY) and the American Studies Association's Crossroads Project
announce that Assumption College will host one of eight regional summer
seminars funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The seminar
is dedicated to bringing educators together to investigate ways to
incorporate effectively print and electronic media in various teaching and
learning environments. The 2000 AC-NMC summer institute, organized around
the theme of " Local Events, (Inter)National Significances," will build on
the previous New England Region-NMC summer institutes, held at the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. It will expand the
existing regional network of educators from diverse sites (schools,
colleges and universities, community centers, museums, historic sites, and
other historical and cultural institutions).
Why Local Events. (Inter)National Significances? The best of the new
"micro-histories" and case studies -- A Midwife's Tale, The Great Arizona
Orphan Abduction, for example -- use local materials to show the human
impact of developments and events that have national or even global
significance. They build upon Charles Joyner's comment, in Down By the
Riverside, that "all history is local." Slaves, he points out, did not
labor on some generic plantation but on specific cotton or rice or sugar
cane plantations. At the same time, these local studies do not seek to
reduce American history and culture to the sum of local particularities.
We will begin with materials dealing with Massachusetts in the 1850s. We
will trace the impact of national events, such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
on anti-slavery activists such as Worcester educator Eli Thayer, who helped
found the Nebraska Emigrant Aid Society. We will also look at local events,
such as the failed attempt to rescue fugitive slave Anthony Burns in Boston
in 1854, upon the national debate over slavery and "free soil." The goal is
not to make institute participants experts in Massachusetts history but to
introduce ways of using local materials, in a technologically enhanced
environment, that enhance learning and teaching.
The Program at Assumption College includes a five-day summer institute
(Sunday,
July 16 through Friday July 21, 2000), a year-long on-line seminar, and
follow-up meetings focusing on the successful implementation of new media
based instruction and materials. Working to enhance investigation and
interpretation at their own sites, institute participants will explore
relevant print and electronic resources that will enable them to make
connections between local histories, national histories, and world or
global histories. Drawing on digital archives and museum exhibits, we will
collaborate to develop instructional and interpretive activities and.
Goals include enabling participants to:
a) promote the ability of students and other learners to construct
knowledge and make connections in multi-media, text, images and sound;
b) explore a range of new humanities resources available on CD-ROM and the
World Wide Web;
c) integrate technology into individual courses, school curricula, and
public interpretive programs;
d) work with scholars and educators who have pioneered in developing new
media applications; and
e) contribute to an ever-widening community of educators committed to
exploring what it means to learn, teach, and interpret in
technology-enhanced sites.
By the end of the institute, participants will have developed:
=B7 Web-based and CD-ROM activities;
=B7 Approaches for using e-mail, listservs and/or educational software to
facilitate writing and inquiry across the curriculum;
=B7 Skills in web-authoring and searching as tools for the construction of
knowledge;
=B7 Lists of resources, electronic archives, Web sites, educational=
software;
=B7 Strategies for increasing access to computer hardware and software
Returning to their institutions for the 2000-2001 school year, participants
will test the strategies they developed during the summer institute while
continuing a seminar dialogue on-line.
The 1999 summer institute agenda is available at:
www.howhist.com
We invite applications from educators at high schools, colleges,
universities, community centers, historical sites and organizations. These
should be submitted no later than Friday, April 21, 2000. Applicants should
have a background in one of the following: 1) teaching US or World history
courses, interdisciplinary humanities/social sciences courses, or ESL
courses; 2) developing curricula, programs and/or exhibits for museums,
historic sites or other historical and cultural organizations. Applicants
can apply as individuals or a team (two to four persons) from their
institution. Access to and some rudimentary facility with the Internet is a
minimal requirement for participation; however, high-level technological
skills and extensive use of new media in previous teaching are NOT (repeat:
not) requirements for application. Instructional and interpretive goals
will drive the use of technology in the institute, not vice versa
For more information, contact Arnold Pulda at doctrgus@massed.net, or John
McClymer, at jmcclyme@assumption.edu.
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Judith K. Graves
Educational Services
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
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