TPS Tech Tools Sandbox Sessions
Keep visiting this page for updates on what tools we’ll be practicing with next: https://bitly.com/TPSSANDBOX What’s a sandbox session? With the help of a session facilitator, we’re exploring some of …
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Discussion-driven or presentations, these regular Zoom calls are responsive to the current needs of those in the TPS Community.
Highlights practical lessons from the front lines of teaching with primary sources in thematic series of open peer-reviewed articles.
Participant-driven sessions for people to get exposure & practice with teaching tools, tech, virtualizing, lesson run-throughs, etc.
The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is an online hub that brings together resources, professional development and support for those who teach with primary sources, including librarians, archivists, teachers, cultural heritage professionals, and anyone who has an interest in using primary sources in an educational setting. For more information about the TPS Collective, please visit the About Us page.
Keep visiting this page for updates on what tools we’ll be practicing with next: https://bitly.com/TPSSANDBOX What’s a sandbox session? With the help of a session facilitator, we’re exploring some of …
Do you Teach with Primary Sources, or want share and learn with other like-minded people with all levels and types of experience? Come join your colleagues for an informative and …
By Christie Lutz / Archivists and special collections librarians who provide instruction at the undergraduate level are experts in the “one-off” class. Often at the request of teaching faculty, we …
By Rachel M. Straughn-Navarro, PhD / The Medicine Buddha is an artwork that makes viewers move around it to look at it from different angles or rub their fingers together …
By Juli McLoone / The physical attributes of a classroom can seem invisible, merely the background against which the action takes place. However, just as the layout of a website …
By Cynthia Bachhuber / Those of us who teach with primary sources may feel like we operate in a very specialized arena. Our class sessions seem necessarily unique to each …
By Rachel Makarowski / Imagine this: you are a professional, full-time librarian for the first time. It is your second day at work, and you’ve just been asked if you’d …
Assessment of Learning Objectives The Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy present broad learning objectives which are intended to “be used as a whole or in part depending on particular learning …
This post outlines in brief the process for planning a lesson using principles of backward design and gradual release of responsibility, two widely accepted instructional approaches. Goal conversation. What do …
ABOUT THIS TOOL: This template is designed to encourage instructors to plan instructional sessions that derive from their instructional objectives, also known as “backward design.” An example lesson follows the …
Tips for rolling out the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy at your home institution. Host a reading group ‒ Invite members of your department or institution to read the Guidelines …
Submitted by Alison Stankrauff Archivists interested in establishing relationships and collaborations with history instructors to foster teaching with primary sources should assess their archive’s collections considering the following four criteria: …
As part of the TPS Collective Teaching Tools Library, we’ll be offering periodic feature reviews of specific items in the library that may be of use to those who teach …
Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is now accepting blog post submissions about teaching with primary sources during the fall 2020 semester for two series of …
As part of the TPS Collective Teaching Tools Library, we’ll be offering periodic feature reviews of specific items in the library that may be of use to those who teach …
Thursday, December 17 at 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET Topic: A fun, end-of-the-year social hour and community building call. We are looking forward to a relaxed discussion about community interests …