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Hello to everyone! Jackie and I are alive and well in North Carolina, and we are finally into our project with our students. Yesterday was the students' first day in the computer lab working with the WPA Life Histories, and the enthusiasm for the project was even more than we expected. Earlier this week I had demonstrated techniques for searching the collection. We made sure that students were familiar with some of the possible pitfalls they could encounter as they searched, and they have given us some excellent feedback for how the search mechanism can be improved. Our two greatest concerns were that students would become frustrated in their searched and that they would be scared off by the length of the Life Histories. Yesterday we saw that our fears were unfounded, and the students were genuinely excited to get a first hand account of what life was really like during the Great Depression. We will report in full when projects are completed. We have presented to our entire faculty, and as a result have had a science teacher working with Conservation Movement collection and a drama teacher using the Variety Stage collection. Deborah Pendleton At 04:02 PM 5/7/98 -0400, Judith K. Graves wrote: >Hi all, >Here's a brief rundown of what I've gotten from email messages, both recent >and ancient! I combed saved email messages and got new messages from >several people. Please take a minute to update this information and provide >me with *accurate* (I couldn't find exact names for some of the events) >names, dates, title of presentation, number in attendance, sponsor of >conference. > >Bill Fernekes & Harlene Rosenberg - Boston ? > >Geri Appel - National Conference of Coalition of Essential Schools, 11 '97 > >Monica Edinger & Cory Brandt - 23rd Annual Parents and Reading Conference, >NECC '98, Intranet Course Development Workshop, Jan conference (?), book:Far >Away and Long Ago: Young Historians in the Classroom > >Della Barr Brooks - informal presentations at Teachers College > >Linda Joseph - workshop of library media specialists, teleconference with >Leni and Kath at CUE, article in Multimedia Schools > >Paul Filio & Carolyn Kindle - NCSS '97 > >Barbara Wysocki & Frances Jocobson - Illinois School Librry Media >Association Annual Conference, faculty presentation 5 '98, Port of Entry >with distance learning class > >Chris Fricke & Glenda Ritz - MSD Washington Township staff workshop > >Mike Federspiel & Tim Hall - Michigan Council of Social Studies > >Mike Young & Carol Nickerson - Nebraska State Conference (?) > >Brian Bindschadler & Jeff Wadman - CFSD Inservice Day, small group meetings, >discussions, work sessions > >Richard del Rio & Carol Barry - California Council for Social Studies (?) > >Kathleen Ferenz & Leni Donlan - NECC '98, in class at SFSU > >Nancy Kerwin & Joelen Mulvaney - teacher inservice > >Laura Wakefield & Joy Penney - Florida League of Teachers, Living History >Museum Grant > >Jackie Brooks & Deborah Pendelton - North Carolina Association for >Educational Communications & Technology > >Doug Perry & Wendy Sauer - Washington State Social Studies Conference > > >If this list brings back memories (fond or otherwise), take a minute and jot >me a note ([log in to unmask]). Any thing that went well, any thing that didn't, >any thing you'd wished you'd done or not done.... Or anything else that >strikes you. Hindsight is 20/20 and will help us all do a better job in the >future! I'd like to synthesize the comments and prepare a help guide for all. > >Thanks, >Judy >------------------------------------------------------- >Judith K. Graves >Education Resources Specialist >National Digital Library Program >Library of Congress >Washington, D.C. 20540-1320 >[log in to unmask] 202/707-2562 >http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/ > Deborah Pendleton, Media Coordinator Ligon Middle School, Raleigh, NC [log in to unmask] 919 856-7935