John Lee
North Carolina State University
USING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH
AMERICAN HISTORY

Outline
 Digital historical content
 Accessing digital content
 Explorations
 Tools for working with digital content
 Creating new digital content

A Work Space
teachingdigitalhistory.ning.com

Digital historical content
…initial questions
What do we mean by digital content in history?
What are some sources of digital content in history that
you can use in your teaching?
What is some areas of interest where digital content
might be available given your curriculum?

Workshop focus
•Review of existing resources
•Tools for doing history online
•Specific explorations

Existing digital historical resources
 American Memory  The Library of Virginia
(http://www.lva.lib.va.us)
(http://loc.gov)
 Plantation Letters
 National Archives and
(http://plantationletters.com)
Records Administration
 Central Florida
(http://archives.gov)
Memory Project
 Virginia Center for (http://www.cfmemory.com )
Digital History
(http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu)

Tools in digital history
Flickr Wikipedia

Tools for working with documents
 www.footnote.com

Tools for working with visuals
 www.voicethread.com

Exploration #1
Examining access
to historical
documents
The Lee
Resolution

Exploration #2
Analyzing historical
documents
The Lee Resolution
SCIM
 Summarize
 Contextualize
 Infer
 Monitor
www.historicalinquiry.com

Exploration #3
Analyzing historical documents
Plantation Letters
SCIM-C
 Summarize
 Contextualize
 Infer
 Monitor
 Corroborate
www.historicalinquiry.com

Exploration #4
Examining online
historical thinking
The John White
watercolors

Contact information
john_lee@ncsu.edu