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Happy Thanksgiving to all. I'm looking forward to teaching a winter semester
class (Integrating Technology in the K-12 Classroom) in the Master of
Education Program at Chaminade University. Oh yes, we do have winter here in
Honolulu. As a matter of fact it is 80 degrees or so right now.
Back to reality...I'll be using the American Memory Collection as the
foundation for the entire course. It fits the bill because the preservice
and inserve teachers that take this course run the gamut from history
teachers to counselors and special education coordinators. I foresee that
the class will find the Memory Collection fodder for developing many
interdisciplinary lessons to take back to their classrooms. I'm excited
about getting started and sharing my treasure chest. As a semester project I
normally have my students team to create a project using PowerPoint or a web
page for presentation and sharing with the class. When finished they each
burn a cd with everyone's projects to take back to their schools to share
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> There are 6 messages totalling 308 lines in this issue.
>
> Topics of the day:
>
> 1. Inservice ideas (3)
> 2. Library and Archival Exhibits on the Web
> 3. Electoral College Controversy of 1876-77
> 4. Next Week's Presentation
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:21:11 -0500
> From: Gigi Lincoln <mlincoln@REMC12.K12.MI.US>
> Subject: Inservice ideas
>
> This message is being sent out on the listserv with the hope that recent
> American Memory Fellows and past fellows from 1997-1999 will have some
ideas
> to share with us.
>
> Scott Durham and I will have an excellent opportunity to work on American
> Memory with fellow Lakeview High School (Battle Creek, MI) teachers in
> January. We have been approved to lead a workshop on Martin Luther King
Day
> and to meet with teachers on two follow-up afternoons. The purpose of this
> workshop will be to guide our teachers in development of instructional
units
> that draw upon American Memory resources and that are also created
according
> to the Unit Design model. Lakeview Schools have officially adopted Unit
> Design and all teachers are receiving training in this model. Scott and I
> were in fact able to write up our WWI lesson according to the district's
> Unit Design template.
>
> Have any fellows had a similar experience of offering a two-day training?
> What suggestions do you have for structuring this time and making the
> experience productive and enjoyable for teachers? We should have a
> manageable number of participants - hopefully no more than 20 teachers. We
> will work in a new lab with projection device, good Internet connection
and
> enough computers for everyone. Judy Graves has been very helpful in
pointing
> out some of the Library's online workshop materials and in reminding us
not
> to overlook the orientation activities that we
> used last summer.
>
> If you are not familiar with the Unit Design model, I can provide some
brief
> background. Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins collaborated on a recent book,
> Understanding by Design (ISBN: 0-87120-313-8). An ERIC abstract offers the
> following summary of Understanding by Design:
>
> "This book explores ways to design courses and units to emphasize
> understanding and uncoverage rather than coverage, offering practical
> solutions for teacher-designers. It focuses on a different use for
> performance assessment, concluding that performance is the key to
assessing
> understanding. The book analyzes the logic of backward design as an
> alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Designing for
> understanding begins with what teachers want students to be able to do and
> proceeds to the evidence they will accept to prove that students have
> learned it. Only then does it turn to how students will learn it. Along
the
> way, teachers must be clear about how they want students to understand and
> what they mean by understanding. The book proposes a multifaceted
approach,
> with the six facets of understanding (explanation, interpretation,
> application, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge). The facets combine
> with backward design to provide a practical framework for designing
> curriculum, assessment, and instruction. After an introduction, there are
11
> chapters: (1) What Is Backward Design? (2) What Is a Matter of
> Understanding? (3) Understanding Understanding, (4) The Six Facets of
> Understanding, (5) Thinking Like an Assessor, (6) How Is Understanding
> Assessed in Light of the Six Facets? (7) What Is Uncoverage? (8) What the
> Facets Imply for Unit Design, (9) Implications for Organizing Curriculum,
> (10) Implications for Teaching, and (11) Putting it All Together: A Design
> Template."
>
> If you have any ideas to share with us and with other fellows, please send
a
> response to the listserv. We look forward to planning this inservice and
to
> hearing from you.
>
> Thanks very much and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
>
> Gigi Lincoln
>
>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
> ___
>
> Margaret Lincoln
> Lakeview HS Library
> 300 South 28th Street
> Battle Creek, MI 49015
> (tel) 616-565-3730
> (fax) 616-565-3738
>
> http://remc12.k12.mi.us/lhslib
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:13:27 -0800
> From: Gail Desler <gailhd@JPS.NET>
> Subject: Re: Inservice ideas
>
> Gigi,
> Thank you for the information on the Grant Wiggins book. I'm ordering a
copy
> today. I'm also looking forward to seeing what ideas other AM fellows
have for
> using the loc collections for a unit on Martin Luther King. At present
I'm
> developing a lesson for middle school students to go with the novel The
Watsons Go
> to Birmingham and would also like to use loc sources. I'll look forward
to
> following this topic.
>
> Gail Desler
>
> Gigi Lincoln wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail
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> > Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@SUN8.LOC.GOV>
> > Poster: Gigi Lincoln <mlincoln@REMC12.K12.MI.US>
> > Subject: Inservice ideas
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
> >
> > This message is being sent out on the listserv with the hope that recent
> > American Memory Fellows and past fellows from 1997-1999 will have some
ideas
> > to share with us.
> >
> > Scott Durham and I will have an excellent opportunity to work on
American
> > Memory with fellow Lakeview High School (Battle Creek, MI) teachers in
> > January. We have been approved to lead a workshop on Martin Luther King
Day
> > and to meet with teachers on two follow-up afternoons. The purpose of
this
> > workshop will be to guide our teachers in development of instructional
units
> > that draw upon American Memory resources and that are also created
according
> > to the Unit Design model. Lakeview Schools have officially adopted Unit
> > Design and all teachers are receiving training in this model. Scott and
I
> > were in fact able to write up our WWI lesson according to the district's
> > Unit Design template.
> >
> > Have any fellows had a similar experience of offering a two-day
training?
> > What suggestions do you have for structuring this time and making the
> > experience productive and enjoyable for teachers? We should have a
> > manageable number of participants - hopefully no more than 20 teachers.
We
> > will work in a new lab with projection device, good Internet connection
and
> > enough computers for everyone. Judy Graves has been very helpful in
pointing
> > out some of the Library's online workshop materials and in reminding us
not
> > to overlook the orientation activities that we
> > used last summer.
> >
> > If you are not familiar with the Unit Design model, I can provide some
brief
> > background. Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins collaborated on a recent book,
> > Understanding by Design (ISBN: 0-87120-313-8). An ERIC abstract offers
the
> > following summary of Understanding by Design:
> >
> > "This book explores ways to design courses and units to emphasize
> > understanding and uncoverage rather than coverage, offering practical
> > solutions for teacher-designers. It focuses on a different use for
> > performance assessment, concluding that performance is the key to
assessing
> > understanding. The book analyzes the logic of backward design as an
> > alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Designing for
> > understanding begins with what teachers want students to be able to do
and
> > proceeds to the evidence they will accept to prove that students have
> > learned it. Only then does it turn to how students will learn it. Along
the
> > way, teachers must be clear about how they want students to understand
and
> > what they mean by understanding. The book proposes a multifaceted
approach,
> > with the six facets of understanding (explanation, interpretation,
> > application, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge). The facets
combine
> > with backward design to provide a practical framework for designing
> > curriculum, assessment, and instruction. After an introduction, there
are 11
> > chapters: (1) What Is Backward Design? (2) What Is a Matter of
> > Understanding? (3) Understanding Understanding, (4) The Six Facets of
> > Understanding, (5) Thinking Like an Assessor, (6) How Is Understanding
> > Assessed in Light of the Six Facets? (7) What Is Uncoverage? (8) What
the
> > Facets Imply for Unit Design, (9) Implications for Organizing
Curriculum,
> > (10) Implications for Teaching, and (11) Putting it All Together: A
Design
> > Template."
> >
> > If you have any ideas to share with us and with other fellows, please
send a
> > response to the listserv. We look forward to planning this inservice and
to
> > hearing from you.
> >
> > Thanks very much and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
> >
> > Gigi Lincoln
> >
> >
____________________________________________________________________________
> > ___
> >
> > Margaret Lincoln
> > Lakeview HS Library
> > 300 South 28th Street
> > Battle Creek, MI 49015
> > (tel) 616-565-3730
> > (fax) 616-565-3738
> >
> > http://remc12.k12.mi.us/lhslib
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:11:47 -0500
> From: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
> Subject: Library and Archival Exhibits on the Web
>
> A tip of the hat to Linda White for pointing this out!
>
> This website is a "finder" tool, to help you find exhibits on the web.
It's hosted by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
>
>
<http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/online-exhibitions
-intro.htm>
>
> Here's a description taken from the site:
>
> This site features links to online exhibitions that have
> been created by libraries, archives, and historical
> societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with
> a significant focus on library and archival materials.
>
> These online exhibitions draw their inspiration and
> content primarily from library and archival materials,
> including, for example: printed books, book illustrations,
> manuscripts, photographs, printed ephemera, posters,
> archival audio and video recordings, artist's books, and
> the book arts (engraving, marbling, and bookbinding, etc.).
>
> The online exhibitions in this guide are listed alphabetically
> by title. A keyword search engine for this site is currently
> under development, to facilitate access to individual
> exhibitions by subject, geographic location, and institution.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:22:08 -0500
> From: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
> Subject: Electoral College Controversy of 1876-77
>
> If today's Electoral College news isn't enough, the free HarpWeek site
<http://www.harpweek.com/> now offers a feature about another such
controversy -- the one from the Hayes - Tilden election of 1876.
>
> <http://elections.harpweek.com/controversy.htm>
>
> Description from the site:
>
> HarpWeek has created this Website, primarily from the
> pages of Harper and the general public with the historic
> events of the Electoral College controversy of 1876-1877.
> The organization of the site allows users to follow events
> day by day, to acquire a more in-depth understanding by
> reading the overview, and to gain insight into the press
> period cartoons (most by Thomas Nast), along with
> corresponding explanations of their historical meaning.
>
> Enjoy!
> BB
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:00:06 -0500
> From: Martha King <mking@REMC12.K12.MI.US>
> Subject: Next Week's Presentation
>
> I'm coming to see your program next Wednesday. Actually, it looks as if
I'm
> supposed to say something from the MAME 12 flyer. Kelli Loomis, my
partner, is
> going to join me. We'll probably just be there as some who went before
you. Is
> your lesson up and online? Ours still isn't to our great consternation.
Judy
> keeps promising that it's almost there. Is there any particular way we
could help
> you? I am planning to run off the part about how to become a Fellow, if
that's
> o.k. with you so that participants could take a shot at it. I'm still not
sure
> why/how we got chosen!
> See you next Wednesday.
> Marty
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:23:21 -0500
> From: Kathy Isaacs <kisaacs@MINDSPRING.COM>
> Subject: Re: Inservice ideas
>
> I'm a huge fan of Understanding by Design which Ginger Attarian and I used
to design
> our unit at the workshop two summers ago, and which we convinced our whole
faculty to
> read and discuss last summer. The twin ideas of guiding questions and
backward design
> have become part of our everyday vocabulary. What do we want students (or
new
> teachers, or participants in our workshop, or whatever) to know and be
able to do at
> the end of the experience, course, term etc. is a question asked
regularly.
> I would be very interested to see what you come up with in a unit for The
Watsons as
> I've become enamored of making LOC connections with historical fiction.
Do let us
> know what you come up with, Gail.
>
>
> --
> Kathy Isaacs
> kisaacs@mindspring.com
>
>
> Gail Desler wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail
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> > Poster: Gail Desler <gailhd@JPS.NET>
> > Subject: Re: Inservice ideas
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
> >
> > Gigi,
> > Thank you for the information on the Grant Wiggins book. I'm ordering a
copy
> > today. I'm also looking forward to seeing what ideas other AM fellows
have for
> > using the loc collections for a unit on Martin Luther King. At present
I'm
> > developing a lesson for middle school students to go with the novel The
Watsons Go
> > to Birmingham and would also like to use loc sources. I'll look forward
to
> > following this topic.
> >
> > Gail Desler
>
> ------------------------------
>
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