National Humanities Center Fall Workshops: FREE!!

From: National Humanities Center [ckiplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org]

Subject: Online Professional Development - National Humanities Center

Live, Online Professional Development
U.S. History and American Literature
Fall 2009 Workshops

FREE for California Teachers!!!

Thurs., Oct. 8
The Consumer Revolution in Colonial America
Maurie McInnis, University of VA

Tues., Oct. 13
Why Some New World Colonies Succeeded and Others Failed
Kathleen DuVal, UNC-Chapel Hill and NHC Fellow

Tues., Oct. 20
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University and NHC Fellow

Tues., Oct. 27
Civil War Art
Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh

Wed., Oct. 28
The Cult of Domesticity
Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University and NHC Fellow

Tues., Nov. 10
Emancipation
Reginald Hildebrand, UNC-Chapel Hill

Thurs., Nov. 12
The Ashcan School
Angela Miller, Washington University - St. Louis

Thurs., Nov. 19
In Search of the Civil Rights Movement
Kenneth Janken, UNC-Chapel Hill and NHC Fellow


Who Should Enroll: K-12 U.S. History and American Literature teachers.

Cost: $35.00 -- but read attachment below for special FREE offer to California teachers, through partnership of CDE with NHC!!

Reading Assignments: Workshop texts are provided free online at the National Humanities Center's Toolbox Library and TeacherServe® websites. Prior to each workshop, reading assignments will be emailed to participants.

Recertification Credit: The National Humanities Center programs are eligible for recertification credit. Each workshop will include ninety minutes of instruction plus ninety minutes of preparation. Because the workshops are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will supply documentation of participation.

Technical Requirements: The workshops are conducted online using conferencing software. To participate, you need a computer, an internet connection, speakers, and a microphone. If you need a headset with a built in microphone, one will be provided.

Sponsor: The National Humanities Center, located in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, is the country's only independent institute for advanced study in all branches of the humanities. Since 1984, it has been offering rigorous, content-based professional development programs for high school teachers.

Be sure to visit the Center's online resources for teachers:
*The Toolbox Library provides primary sources-- historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio material--illuminated by notes and discussion questions.
*TeacherServe®, collections of essays by leading scholars that explore important topics in American culture and offer advice on how to teach them.

Caryn Koplik
National Humanities Center
919-406-0111
7 Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12256
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Facing History's "Choosing to Participate" Online Workshop

From: Facing History and Ourselves [mailto:Facing_History_and_Ourselves@mail.vresp.com]
Subject: Join Us! Online Workshop: Choosing to Participate

Register Now for Facing History and Ourselves'

Choosing to Participate

FREE Online Workshop

You are invited to join Facing History and Ourselves' free Choosing to Participate online workshop (October 7 - 15) designed to introduce the resources and interactive features of Facing History's Choosing to Participate website. If you register for the online workshop today, we will send you a link to the redesigned website as soon as it launches—with many exciting new features!

Choosing to Participate: Facing History and Ourselves is a civic and educational initiative that seeks to be a catalyst for conversation about the importance of civic participation. The initiative encourages people of all ages and backgrounds to consider the choices they face in their lives, to think critically about issues of race and prejudice, and to understand that their decisions and actions matter to themselves, their communities, and future generations.

The website will present the stories of four individuals and communities from contemporary history whose stories illustrate the courage, initiative, and compassion that are needed to protect democracy and human rights. The website will also offer a variety of interactive tools and experiences that allow students to explore the themes of civic responsibility and democracy. Using state-of-the-art interactive graphics, audio, and video clips, the site allows young people to share their own responses about participation. The site can be used on its own, in your classroom, and/or to prepare or debrief a visit to the multimedia, interactive exhibition that is the centerpiece of the Choosing to Participate initiative. The exhibition will be on display in Cleveland, Ohio between October 2009 and February 2010.

Through facilitated online activities, educators participating in the online workshop will learn a variety of ways they can use this website with their students. The workshop will allow you to receive feedback, share lesson ideas and resources, and connect with other educators from around the globe.

This online workshop will be facilitated by Facing History staff who are experienced middle and high school educators. The format will consist of several ongoing online conversations and a guided investigation of the website. All educators are invited regardless of their computer use skill level.

By registering for this workshop, you are committing to logging on to the site and participating in the online discussion at least three times, for a time commitment of two-to-four hours during the duration of the online workshop.

APPLY TODAY TO OUR ONLINE WORKSHOP!!

Please contact Tanya at Tanya_Lubicz-Nawrocka@facing.org with any questions and forward this email to your friends and colleagues who may be interested in Facing History's "Choosing to Participate" online workshop.

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Free Online Workshop by Facing History

From: Andrea Temkin [mailto:andreatemkin@gmail.com]


Free Online Workshop by Facing History

Artists and educators working with immigration and identity issues might join a free online workshop by Facing History & Ourselves: "Civic Dilemmas: Religion, Migration and Belonging." The two-week workshop, March 26-April 8, 2009, requires a minimum time commitment of three hours over that period. Key questions include: How does migration impact the identities of migrants and non-migrants? How should communities balance the competing needs of reproducing national identity, promoting integration and community cohesion and pluralism? And, how do these issues play out in schools? In schools, is there a contradiction between creating common identities and fostering group pride? Discussion will feature two new publications from Facing History: "Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration and Belonging" and "What Do We Do with a Difference: France and the Debate Over Headscarves in Schools." Resources may be downloaded for free.

Great Depression Online Forum

From: "Donna Thompson" <dthompson@gc.cuny.edu>


A NEW "PICTURING UNITED STATES HISTORY" FORUM

Beginning March 1, 2009, the American Social History Project's latest Web resource, "Picturing United States History: An Online Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence", will host a month-long online discussion on teaching the Great Depression with visual evidence. The forum will be guest-moderated by Professor Barbara Melosh of George Mason University, author of Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater.

Go to the Great Depression forum:

http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?cat=3

and join in the discussion!

Representing a unique collaboration between historians and art historians, Picturing U.S. History is based on the belief that visual materials are vital to understanding the American past. Visitors to the website will find web-based guides, essays, case studies, classroom activities, and online forums to assist high school teachers and college instructors to incorporate visual evidence into their classroom practice. The website supplements other U.S. history resources with visual materials, analysis, and activities that allow students to engage with the process of interpretation in a more robust fashion than through text alone.

Picturing U.S. History is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its We, The People initiative.

Donna Thompson Ray
Project Director, Faculty Development Programs American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, 7th floor
New York, NY 10016
Tele: 212-817-1963; Fax: 212-817-1568
Email: DThompson@gc.cuny.edu, DThompsonASHP@aol.com
Web: http://www.ashp.cuny.edu see Teaching and Learning

New Lincoln Podcast and Online Exhibition

From: Gilder Lehrman Institute [mailto:gli@gilderlehrman.org]

NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION:
LINCOLN AND THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery and its abolition were clearly expressed in speeches and action throughout his political career. This online exhibition traces his evolution from antislavery advocate to emancipator. Click here to see the exhibition:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/emancipation/index.html

NEW PODCAST: LINCOLN, EMANCIPATION,
AND THE RIGHTS OF BLACK AMERICANS

Professor Eric Foner discusses Lincoln's views on the future of emancipated slaves; colonization versus integration into American society. To hear this podcast, click here:

http://gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p=122

LINCOLN RESOURCES

To hear more of the lectures in our Lincoln series, see a calendar of Lincoln events and look at our full library of Lincoln resources, click here:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/lincoln.html

Gilder Lehrman Institute | 19 West 44th Street, Suite 500 | New York | NY | 10036

Buffalo Soldiers Electronic Field Trip

From: Jack Bareilles [mailto:jbareilles@nohum.k12.ca.us]

With Black History Month upon us, here is an opportunity for one week from today.

The folks at Ball State University are having a electronic fieldtrip about the Buffalo Soldiers on Tuesday, February 10th at 10 AM Pacific Time.

You can access this free electronic fieldtrip and resources at: http://www.bsu.edu/eft/home/00front.htm

Jack Bareilles
Director Humboldt County and Northern California Teaching American History Programs
Northern Humboldt Union High School District Grant Administrator
McKinleyville High School
1300 Murray Road
McKinleyville, CA 95519
(707) 839-6492
(707) 839-6407 (fax)
(707) 845-6546 (cellular)
(707) 445-8528 (home)

Online Professional Development Workshops from the National Humanities Center

From: National Humanities Center [mailto:ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org]

Online Resource Workshops
U.S. History and American Literature Teachers
Spring 2009

§ Want to learn more about teaching primary documents in U.S. history classes?

§ Want to explore thematic connections between American literature and U.S. history?

§ Want to bring art into your history or literature lessons?

Register for live, 60-90 minute-long, workshops from the National Humanities Center.

The Center's online resource workshops give high school teachers of U.S. history and American literature a deeper understanding of their subject matter. Led by distinguished scholars, they introduce teachers to fresh texts and critical perspectives and help teachers integrate them into their lessons.

A resource workshop identifies central themes within a topic and explores ways to teach them through the close analysis of primary texts, including works of art, and the use of discussion questions. Texts are drawn from anthologies in the Center's Toolbox Library. To participate, all you need is a computer with an internet connection, a speaker, and a microphone.

Enrollment in each workshop is limited to eighteen participants.

Ten to thirty-five pages of reading
$35 registration fee
The registration fee may be paid by a school, district, professional development consortium, Teaching American History project, or other organization.

The National Humanities Center will supply documentation for certificate renewal credit (including technology CEUs).

For information about group participation, contact Richard R. Schramm, Vice President for Education Programs, National Humanities Center, at rschramm@nationalhumanitiescenter.org.

SCHEDULE

What It Meant to Be Enslaved

What did it mean to be enslaved in the United States?
How did the enslaved respond to bondage?
How did labor shape their daily lives?
In what ways did the enslaved resist bondage?
How did the enslaved maintain their identities?

Leader: Daina Berry, National Humanities Center Fellow, Professor of History, Michigan State University

Date and Time: Rescheduled - New Date: March 10, 2009; 6 p.m. (EST)

Registration Deadline: February 25, 2009 » Register online » Register by mail

Teaching African American History with WPA Slave Narratives

What do recollections of formerly enslaved people, gathered by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, tell us about slavery in America?
What interpretative challenges do the WPA slave narratives pose?
How can the WPA slave narratives be used with students?

Leader: Marianne Wason, Assistant Director, Education Programs, National Humanities Center

Date and Time: February 26, 2009; 6 p.m. (EST)

Registration Deadline: February 10, 2009 » Register online » Register by mail

Civil War Home Fronts

How did the total mobilizations of the Civil War affect the northern and southern home fronts?
What was life like for women on the northern and southern home fronts?
What was life like for African Americans on the northern and southern home fronts?

Leader: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, National Humanities Center Fellow, Umstead Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date and Time: March 12, 2009; 6 p.m. (EST)

Registration Deadline: February 25, 2009 » Register online » Register by mail


Caryn Koplik
National Humanities Center
919-549-0661

National Humanities Center | 7 Alexander Drive | P.O. Box 12256 | Research Triangle Park | NC | 27709