This book helps teachers, librarians, and technologists apply 21st-century strategies at every level and in every content area!
Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way, K12 offers dozens of helpful tools:
A comprehensive listing of popular Web 2.0 tools
An extensive state-by-state bibliography of primary source collections online
A sample permission letter to parents to introduce a 21st century primary source unit
In-depth chapters on six different primary source categories
Primary source analysis tools for each category
Six Web 2.0 Focus sections offering how-to-get-started advice and primary source teaching ideas: Blogs, Citizen Journalism, Flickr, Podcasting, VoiceThread, and Digital Storytelling
Technology alone does not guarantee a quality learning experience, but now is a perfect time to challenge existing 20th century structures and exploit the transformative potential of tags, comments, interactivity, collaboration, and other powerful features of Web 2.0 in the primary source classroom. This book shows you how!
Mary J. Johnsonis a consultant with the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program at the Library of Congress.
This is an essential book for any librarian who is collaborating with classroom teachers to meet academic standards. Librarians working with primary grade students will need to adapt the worksheets and concepts, but the book will provide a basis for those librarians to create primary source lessons. Recommended. Library Media Connection
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explains the 'mystery' and buzz surrounding Web 2.0, using clear, nontechnical language, and offers a list of popular Web 2.0 tools, with descriptions and suggestions for using them with primary sourlóP