Thing #7

I had no idea there was so much video available on the web. I am very impressed at the archiving of videos that many have taken the time to do. We have such a special gift, at this time of the history of humanity, in having the ability to archive our lives on film for others to see. With this tool, we can see so much of what we have and have not done with our small increment of the grand spectrum of time. My favorite is the National Archives. This is where our history in the U.S. is preserved, and this is where we can send our students to see the actual evidence and footprints of our heritage. I love this video on Democracy. The film is an actual commercial for the National Archives. But it shows the importance of the institute as the archiving relates directly to our freedom as a people. I will use this to show students how important it is that they are able to research the documents of their nation in searching for primary sources. Another video I might use in the library, to point them to the non-fiction how-to books, is the how to video for making puppets. This could also be an extension of their own how-to writing in the http://www.blinkx.com/video/how2crafts-make-puppets-with-margaret-and-melissa/RnzzOkVHG_AtZUfI_qDYbA

Thing #17

It was a tedious, but interesting exercise to set up a Rollyo. I created one for primary sources. I found in teaching U.S. History last year, there were so many sites to search from when you are looking for a document or archive on a certain point in history. Also, when I was wanting my students to search and analyze primary sources on a certain part of history, it would take a while to find the sites that actually contained the sources. Using rollyo, I can search several of the sites at once. One hangup I found is when I actually put in something to search from history, one of the websites has so many hits, it doesn't list the others for pages away. But the Memory Collection from the Library of Congress is so important, it is worth going through all of the hits. Here is a link to my rollyo http://rollyo.com/branon5/primary_sources/