TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY: THE STATE OF PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE MODERN WORLD

Brittany Gendron ’12

May 2011, Spring Student Symposium

INTERNSHIPS SUMMER 2010

A HISTORY OF TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

BRINGING PRIMARY SOURCES TO THE 21ST CENTURY   Library of Congress

  1990: American Memory CD-ROM Experiment to educators   1994: National Digital Library Program: Official Launch of

American Memory   2000: Over 5 million records connected to American Memory and

available online   2010: Over 16 million records connected to American Memory,

however over 100 million yet to be scanned.   National Archives

  1997: National Archives Strategic Plan   Met Goal in 2000 of over 200,000 key documents

  Google   2004: Google Books

  Harvard Center for the Internet and Society   Berkman Center, Digital Public Library of America

“Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative.” Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. 13 December 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library

Carlin, John W. “Ready Access to Essential Evidence: The Strategic Plan of the National Archives and Records Administration 1997- 2007.” National Archives and Records Administration. Rev. 2000. http://www.archives.gov/about/plans-reports/strategic-plan/2000/ “Mission and History.” American Memory. The Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/index.html Singer, Natasha. “Playing Catch Up In a Digital Library Race.” New York Times. 8 January 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09stream.htm?_r=1

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY   1993: Who Built America CD-ROM Project

Brown, Joshua. “History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty- First Centuries.” Center For History and New Media, George Mason University. June 2004. http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history- new-media/essays/?essayid=29

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2008

http://www.digitalvaults.org

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2010

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2010

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2010

TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2010

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE POSSIBILITIES ARE

ENDLESS FOR YOU!

Special thanks to Professor Amy Morsman, my inspiring advisor, the Education Team at the National Archives, specifically Megan Jones, Dave Rosenbaum and Stephanie Greenhut, and Middlebury Career Services and the affiliated Tormendson Fund.