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Creating a Digital Archive for Your Classes
Creating a digital archive for your classes can be even more valuable than searching out archives which are already online. As a teacher, the experience of building a digital archive can help you to not only enrich your curriculum, but also enhance your technical skills. Further, teachers and educational professionals have begun to use the creation of digital archives as a means of professional communication and collaboration. (For an example of how this can work, check out the Digital Historical Inquiry Project).
Class
Project 2 -
Building a Digital Archive
This is a class project, which
will not only give you experience in creating a digital archive, but
also will help you to experience the validity (and complications) of
whole class proejcts.
Finding Primary Sources
Frist of all, decide as a class what topic you want to focus on in the creation
of your archive. Try to be specific (ie. Women in the Civil War,
rather than the Civil War).
Then use the Internet to find primary sources related to a specific event or
concept within a field of social studies which you teach. Gather at least 15
primary textual sources (more if posible) which you can incorporate into a
digital archive of your own.
Also, use a Boolean search engine such as Altavista, Webcrawler or Dogpile
to search for photographs, maps or pictures which you can incorporate into
your digital archive. [Alternatively, you can scan in pictures if you have
them available, just be sure to include all of the proper citation information].
If your topic allows for it, you can also use the same Boolean search engines
to identify speeches and music which can be included into your archive. Gather
at least 10 non-textual sources (again, more if possible) which you can incorporate
into your Digital Archive.
Use the following criteria when selecting sources to put into you digital archives:
1) are they (sources) able to transform teaching;
2) are they able to withstand peer review;
3) does the website you have found the source on have an internal champion committed to scholarship and K-12 education; and
4) are the resources provided by that website related to the K-12 curriculum
Why use the criteria above? - Becuase the reality is that the contemporary nature of the Internet has led to the incorporation within some website (even digital archives) of materials which are inaccurate or based upon propaganda. Teachers need to be wary of this, and teach their students how to evaluate online sources for accuracy and validity.
Developing the Archive
Use the sources you gathered to create an archive for one of the classes you
tech.
Link the archive you created to your Digital Portfolio.