The Daily Reflector Image Collection: Best Practices in the Classroom
- 2. Overview Primary and Secondary Sources Identification Student Engagement Curriculum Alignment Digital Collections Classroom resource Critical thinking skills Teaching with Photographs
- 4. Objects Images Audio Statistics Text
- 5. Active Experience Manipulating real historical materials Critical Thinking Skills Multiple perspectives Forming interpretations
- 6. Identify your instructional needs North Carolina Standard Course of Study http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/ Rewrite your lesson or activity outcome to include your primary source material.
- 7. African American men being drafted
- 8. NCSCOS GRADE 8 NC HISTORY Competency Goal 6- The learner will analyze the immediate and long-term effects of the Great Depression and World War II on North Carolina. Objectives 6.04 Assess the impact of World War II on the economic, political, social, and military roles of different groups in North Carolina including women and minorities. PRIMARY SOURCE AND CONTEXT EXAMPLE Photograph URL: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/3910 (African American men being drafted) Conscription in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War
- 10. Treasure Chest Digital versions High quality materials Online access Preservation of rare materials
- 11. Examples ECU digital collections http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/ Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
- 12. Engagement of Students Reflection Articulation Problem-solving Exploration Hypothesis generation Role playing Collaboration and Social Negotiation
- 13. A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams
- 14. The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading.
- 15. What’s in the picture? Context Answer: who, what, where, and when?
- 16. The photographer’s decision Composition Moment in Time Setting Focal Point
- 17. The viewer decides Implicit v. explicit context
- 18. These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. -Ansel Adams
- 19. All images from the Daily Reflector Image Collection http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/reflector/ Ansel Adams quotes from http://www.brainyquote.com LearnNC: Resources for teaching with photographs http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/678 Wikipedia Search: conscription http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War