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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@SUN8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Garvin <jlgarv@STLNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Dog and Pony
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Way to go, guys!
Some of us have not been too active in our communications thru this web site
still read it faithfully and are delighted to hear of the success of our
fellow Fellows. Keep up the good work- and thanks for sharing.
Jane Garvin 98
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From: Mike Goldberg <mgoldber@BELL.K12.CA.US>
To: AMFELLOWS@sun8.loc.gov <AMFELLOWS@sun8.loc.gov>
Date: 24 August 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: Dog and Pony
>Hi Y'all,
>See I did pick something up at the institute - y'all.
>Yesterday, Bonnie and I gave an hour and a half presentation of the
>AmMemCol to a large group of LA's finest, the Humanitas teachers' summer
>institute at USC. We used the new website simulator CD (pretending we were
>connected to the internet), a mac laptop and a video projector to show
>student and teacher use of the website (with one PwrPt demo as an intro).
>We pulled together a multimedia Depression/Dustbowl/Migrant presentation
>from the the website in real time before their very eyes and they all were
>left gasping for breath. We felt like foxes in the chicken coop. It took us
>a couple of days to organize and script the 'tricks' but in the 1-1/2 hour
>we mixed video, film, speeches, speech texts, recorded music, recorded
>music text, sheet music (printed out - found an 11x17 color printer in our
>print shop) thank you very much Karen, printed out broadsides, etc., etc.,
>etc! We're on again Monday for another 70 teachers. Once we get this
>polished up we're taking it to Broadway! How 'bout giving us something
>challenging to do Susan and Judy!
>Your servants,
>Bonnie and Bonnie's husband
>
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