In my earlier post I talked about the resources I picked up from the Library of Congress session at NECC09. Another Library of Congress project announced at NECC is TPS Direct. TPS (Teaching with Primary Sources) Direct is a self-guided, personalized professional development program for teachers (or groups of teachers) who are interested in learning […]
Last week, while attending NECC09, I included a session on using primary sources from the Library of Congress on my agenda. If you’ve never used the Library of Congress website, then you’re missing out on a host of phenomenal resources to use with your students. Unfortunately, the Library of Congress website is very convoluted and […]
Tonight through a post on HistoryTech I stumbled across a great site for primary sources – Digital Vaults by the National Archives. Start by selecting one of the images in the center of the page. If nothing shown interests you, click “Shuffle Records” and you will be presented with another set of images. After a […]