Ms. Berger's presentation was interesting and funny. The presentation was interactive, full of anecdotes, and was built around a lesson for 7th graders that utilized the inquiry process and primary documents.
She reminded us that students are very visual and that photographs or paintings (as long as they are created during the same time period of the event!) are wonderful ways to demonstrate point of view and to embed primary documents in a lesson. It was a nice little reminder of what really constitutes a primary document.
Ms. Berger gave us copies of the lesson and documents and explained the process after we had completed the lesson at our tables. She highlighted http://padlet.com, http://wordle.net, www.digitialvault.org, and docsteach.org as possible Web 2.0 tools to use in lessons with primary documents.
What do I need to do (I'm a middle school library media specialist)? Tell my social studies colleagues about this lesson and do my best to incorporate DigitalVault or DocsTeach into any of the collaborative projects that I'll be working on. Government resources with primary documents that students NEED to be exposed to.
My lingering question: what kind of final product could students create using primary documents in a social studies or language arts class?
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