My friend Hirooki is an undergrad History major at my school. He is also an avid rock climber. He walks around campus with a hiking backpack with all sorts of climbing gear attached to his bag. One day, I asked him why he carried so much equipment. “I always like to be ready to climb,” … climbing and the art of instructional design
People tell us to “Think outside the box.” Only then do we realize that our lives are bound by some sort of box and there exists the possibility of an external reality. But can we really “Think Outside the Box”? Or are we just stretching the box to make our reality bigger to incorporate more … think outside the box, 2011
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources activity created into a Flash-based interaction. Students viewed sections of an image and made hypotheses about the bigger picture of the primary source image Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (Actionscript 3).
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources activity created into a Flash-based interaction. Students examined eight different images and identified similaries and differences among them by sorting the images into at least two categories. Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (Actionscript 3).
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources activity created into a Flash-based interaction. Students examined clues in the primary sources to identify a historical figure, place, etc. Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (Actionscript 3).
Flyer for the Teaching with Primary Sources grant
The website for the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado Rural Partnership website. Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator
Poster for the Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Tools: Adobe Illustrator
Poster for the Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Tools: Adobe Illustrator
As a graduate student, I served as a Graduate Assistant (GA) doing instructional design work for a grant funded by the Library of Congress, Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado Rural Partnership. We worked with rural K-12 educators to help integrate the (then) 14 million+ primary digital resources from the Library of Congress website in … loc primary sources bookmarks, 2007