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ANUAH- A Professional Development Community for Alaskan Educators
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The Alaska Network for Understanding American History (ANUAH) is ready to serve all Alaskan teachers of American History.
As the second year of our Teaching American History grant project begins, ANUAH is set to continue expanding its' services and opportunities to Alaska's history teachers. If you are an Alaskan elementary, middle, or high school teacher who teaches American history in any part of your school day, then our network is designed to serve you in your pursuit of personal growth and professional excellence. Our community of K-12 educators, from both urban and rural areas of the state, all share a common interesting in exploring insights and practices that make teaching American history more thought provoking and exciting for students in their classrooms. ANUAH takes full advantage of recent advances in 21st Century collaborative technology to link teachers with scholars, professional developers, resources and each other. By consciously working to embed 21st C. tools and collaborative methodologies in all our professional development offerings, we are breaking down the barriers that isolate teachers & their classrooms, and acquainting teachers with ways to bring their American history curriculum into the new century. Free college courses, stand alone Professional Development sessions on a number of useful topics, network sponsored student projects and competitions, access to a growing number of Teaching American History (TAH) resources and receipt of our bi-weekly e-Bulletin are just part of what comes with enrollment in our network. For more information or to join us, please go to: http://anuah.pbworks.com |
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CHNM to Play a Leadership Role in Our Learning Network
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Scholars from the nationally renown Center for History and New Media will be sharing their ideas and expertise with Alaskan teachers this year.The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement recently awarded a multi-million dollar contract for the creation and maintenance of an online National History Education Clearinghouse. The Center for History and New Media, along with Stanford University were selected for this honor and have worked to develop a world class website at: http://teachinghistory.org . Now, the Center for History and New Media has agreed to work directly with the Alaska Network for Understanding American History to guide and support the development of our teachers and our networked community of practice. This has given Alaskan teachers an incredible opportunity to work on the cutting edge of teaching American history practices in the 21st Century. Tom Rushford, from the Center, will be serving as ANUAH's Coordinating Scholar and will be teaching our thematic history survey course on "Democracy and Evolving Egalitarianism ", which we will be offering this fall (more on that in the next e-Bulletin). Tom has experience not only as a university professor but as a high school teacher as well, and brings that practical background and outlook to his course design. He will be joined by other scholars from the Center in his work this year. We are extremely lucky to be in this position, which promises to be a great opportunity for all Alaskan teachers who wish to explore what is possible when innovations in technology and methodology are focused on their American history teaching practices! |
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Free Online Courses Available: Teaching with Primary Sources
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The University of Alaska Anchorage and the Metropolitan State College of Denver have teamed up to offer a pair of self-paced, online courses on how to use the enormous wealth of digital resources found on the Library of Congress website in your classroom.Breathe realism and immediacy into learning, by harnessing primary sources - the raw materials of history - in your classroom. Housed, protected and now digitized by the Library of Congress, such primary sources are available and free to anyone. Learn how to access and integrate the over 11 million digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress ( http://www.loc.gov) to create inquiry-based learning experiences that integrate 21st century learning skills. Two courses are being conducted by UAA History professor, Elizabeth James, with the second course serving as a follow up that builds upon the resources and methods explored in the first one. Participants in the initial 2 credit course can enroll as early as today and they have until Dec. 5, 2009 to complete it. All work is online and can be performed wherever and whenever teachers have an internet connection. For those who complete the first course, the 3 credit follow-up course will be available soon. Course Goals:- Acquire a working knowledge of the American Memory website by examining and exploring the breadth and organization of the Library of Congress digital primary source collection.
- Gain an understanding of the value of primary sources in instruction and create an Annotated Resource Set (ARS) to use in your classroom and share with your colleagues.
For more information about this opportunity or to enroll in the initial
course, contact ANUAH Network Coordinator, John Trampush at
Trampush_John@asdk12.org
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Free Online, Self-Directed Lessons and Course for Teachers from the National Archives...
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The National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Alaska Region, in coordination with ANUAH will be offering a set of lessons and a 1 credit course, designed to assist anyone wishing to do research in original documents at NARA facilities across the United States or online. Carol Buswell, the Educational Specialist at the Pacific Alaska Region branch of the National Archives has created a set of 10 short, informative lessons useful to anyone unfamiliar with archive research. These learning modules (and the attached forms that go with them) could be of great value to teachers and students, both as individual lessons selected for their specific purpose, or the whole set for a complete program of study. To access these lessons, just go to: http://anuah.pbworks.com/NARA+Lessons+for+Teacher+or+Student+Classroom+use+%28non-credit%29For those teachers interested in college credit for their exploration and professional development along these lines, we are working with the Alaska Staff Development Network and Alaska Pacific University to offer a self-paced, 1 credit, online course available by August 21st. For information about course requirements for this, please go to: http://anuah.pbworks.com/NARA-Online-CourseIf you have any other thoughts or questions concerning this opportunity just contact ANUAH Network Coordinator, John Trampush at Trampush_John@asdk12.org .
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