WEB  AND CD SURVEY Crossing Urban Borders The New Media Classroom

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Surveying Electronic Resources 
 
Step one (60 minutes)  As a team, survey the four assigned web sites and one CD-ROM. Explore and discuss the design, quality, navigation and content of these sites.

Step two (30 minutes)  When you've completed your review, outline an activity using one resource. Before you start, consider the following questions:

• How would this assignment support key learning skills, methods, or mode of thinking?
• How would the electronic materials suit the assignment's intended pedagogy or methodological goals? What, if any, difference do the electronic materials make in construction of the activity (as compared to print materials)?
• How would this assignment be contextualized in your classroom? How might you follow it up?

Step three (15 minutes)  Each team should post an activity (using one or more web-sites) to the speakeasy cafe.

Step four (40 minutes)  With your assigned group share, explain and discuss:

• Your assessment of the web site and CD.
• Your activity.

Step five (20 minutes)  Large group discussion.

Go to group:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Group 1

The Great Chicago Fire and Web of Memory
www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro

Touring Turn of the Century America:  Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880-1920        http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro -- A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic                  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/

The Victorian Web
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

Who Built America? -- CD ROM
 

Group 2

Literature and Culture in the American 1950s
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Tenement Museum http://www.wnet.org/archive/tenement/

Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artist and their New York  http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/metlives/index.html

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935  http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail98-35.html

MAUS: A Surviver's Tale -- CD-ROM
 

Group 3

Electronic Policy Network
http://epn.org/

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

The Blackout History Project: New York City 1965/1977 http://blackout.gmu.edu/ 

The Social Work History Station http://www.idbsu.edu/socwork/dhuff/history/central/core.htm

Macbeth -- CD-ROM

 

Group 4

Remembering Nagasaki
www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki

Digital Atlas of New York City
http://130.166.124.2/NYpage1.html

Poet at Work: The Recovered Notebooks of Walt Whitman            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html

Urban Poverty: Center for Social Policy (Harvard) http://www.societyonline.org/visitor/urbanpoverty/

Encarta Africana -- CD-ROM

 

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