The article about the Norfolk 17 and the digital library reminded me of the program by Iowa Public Television where oral histories were recorded. I went on the website and couldn't find it anymore. Does anyone know what it was called or if they're still doing this?
While searching the web, I did not realize all the other resources available from IPTV for schools and the specific content areas. I had looked at this when my daughter was doing her Iowa History Project. Now I realized there's an area for Library and Media too. Might be worth adding to our list of resources.
Anyway, back to the article...
I think the real power behind primary source documents is the word "perspective"...for so long the majority of the history that our students learned was through textbooks...content that is edited and filtered over and over. The more our students are exposed to different perspectives, the more successful they will be...in our global society.
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Seeing this on both wiki and blog - and appreciate the extra effort to catch me. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'll try to emphasize Iowa on Monday - remind me if I don't get to it!!
Yes - we tried to find books about other revolutions (such as French) to help students in American govt. class understand many parts of the world's relationship with revolution, not just the U.S. You cannot imagine how difficult that was to find. We often look at things from only our perspective. We need documents from all over the world!