The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, holding a vast of array primary source documents. The Libary of Congress is a federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. During the summer of 2014, a group of faculty from Salislbury University participated in a project with grant from the Library of Congress. This project helped elmentary and high school teachers navigate the resources in the Library of Congress archives. The teachers learned how to analyze documents and create learning units based on the documents locatd in the Library of Congress. To continue with lessons learned from this project, knowledge gained was transferred to an undergraduate technology course for pre-service teachers. They learned how to locate and use the resources to create multimediate products for their classrooms.
The teachers used primary documents from the Library of Congress to build digital stories and built lessons with those stories using the TED-ED platform. The TED-ED platform allows the user to embed a YouTube video, TED ED video, or TED Talk into the platform. A web-based learning experience can be created with open ended and multiple choice questions as well as discussion questions.
The teachers learned how to create a digita story using Windows Live Movie Maker and iMovie. The stories were uploaded to YouTube, then integrated into the TED ED platform.
Below are examples of digital stories created with primary sources from the Library of Congress and integrated into the TED-ED platform.
History of Slavery
Spring 2015
The first slaves in the American colonies were in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. For the next two hundred years, 600,000 slaves were captured and brought to the American colonies to work on cotton and tobacco fields. Slaves were often kidnapped from their homes in Africa...
The Student Led Anti-War Movement: Kent state and Jackson State
Spring 2015
January, 1970. The United States has been fully involved in the Vietnam War for five years, and despite President Nixon’s assurances, there is no apparent end in sight. The youth of the country had been controversially drafted into Vietnam...
Maryland's Division in the Civil War
Spring 2015
he northern part of the state had many factories and had similar views of the northern states. However, Southern Maryland and the Eastern shore had plantation and many slaves. They sympathized with the south. Maryland’s population was unique. There was 88,000 free blacks living throughout the state...
Pearl Harbor - A wife's tale
Spring 2015
It was a normal Sunday morning as I lay next to my husband, Raymond. I was proud of him; he was a Lieutenant Commander on the USS Pennsylvania. And he was given liberty over the night because his ship was being worked on in the dry dock at the harbor.
We were expecting our first son...