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This project was completed after a presentation with individuals affiliated with the Teaching with Primary Sources - Western Region. Based on my portion of a National Council for History Education presentation, which focused on transitioning to teaching with primary sources online in early 2020, each presenter created a learning resource that used a framework I created for teaching in environments where students have access to variable levels of technology and familial support. My output consisted of three activities on an Adobe Spark page that expanded on the Library of Congress’ “Lincoln’s Pockets” activity and emphasized using digital and analog primary sources found in a student’s home to teach critical thinking and analysis skills that combat inequity in access to technology.
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Through this activity, students will learn about the variety of civic actions and activism undertaken by Memphis Tennessee Garrison throughout her life. They will work to identify a cause or multiple causes that they are passionate about and determine how they can get involved with that cause in their community.
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In this activity, students analyze a finding aid and (optionally) compare the finding aid to the collection it describes to consider audiences for archival access documents and descriptive content.
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In this activity, students create a plan for ensuring the preservation of their digital files.
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In this activity, students examine the exhibit labels they have written in the form of a gallery that is later remixed to form a new narrative to learn about the impact of physical proximity, tone, and more for items and exhibit labels.
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In this activity, students consider the usage of metadata describing digitized photos from the Jim Peppler Southern Courier Collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History as data. Topics of note include bias in metadata creation and data visualization.
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In this activity, students design a digital repository and consider audiences, collected content, and uses of the repository as well as implications of those decisions.
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In this activity, students will analyze digital repositories maintained by archives, libraries, and museums to consider the efficacy and variety of ways that cultural heritage materials are made accessible to individuals outside of the original institution.
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This activity allows students to look at the physical items they interact with every day and examine them as though they were future historians looking at primary sources.
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The "Your Digital History" activity allows students to consider ways in which their digital lives might be understood and studied by future historians.
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Syllabus for the required first year course, First Year Seminar (FYS) at Marshall University. FYS courses use central objectives and a selection of readings that are augmented with readings and activities based on a theme that draws from the expertise of the instructor. This iteration of the course focuses on physical and digital archives and imaged archives beyond these types.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students examine and analyze a primary source.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students reflect on the digital exhibit they created for the course.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students propose and create a digital exhibit on any topic using the platform of their choice.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students analyze a digital primary source, either a born digital or a digitized source, and consider ways in which digital primary sources can be analyzed and understood in comparison to physical primary sources.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students write entries into a digital commonplace book of any platform or format on their understanding of the information ecosystem and how their understanding of physical and digital cultural heritage materials has changed throughout the course.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students write entries into a physical commonplace book on the purpose and reality of higher education.
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Overview and instructions for an assignment for First Year Seminar: Digital Archives in which first year students write an exhibit label.
