I would be happy to discuss any individual teacher's needs directly.
Feel free to contact me off-list.  I have never "skyped," but would
welcome the opportunity to learn.  We come into the classroom when we
can, but the Library's main focus has been on resources aimed directly
at teachers.  We held a teacher's institute last summer on our "Union or
Secession" project, and anticipate holding it again next year now that
the exhibition and website are "live."  Frequently, educators who come
to these sessions will ask us to present to teachers in their system or
they will spread the word themselves, making it a fairly efficient way
for a very small staff to have a significant impact. We also will be
offering student tours of the exhibition.

As several folks have suggested, there are numerous qualified candidates
around the state who might come into the classroom in person or
virtually.

Gregg Kimball
 

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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:25 PM
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Subject: [VA-HIST] Teaching history in the digital age!

A few days ago I got an email alert from Classroom 2.0 ning: I need
help!  Te teacher was creating a unit for her classroom as an activity
in her own grad level class. The unit was for US History about the Civil
War. She wants her students to study the causes of the war. She needed
an Internet activity.

I suggested she locate an expert on the issues, and invite him/her to
interact with her students via Skype. I suggested there were such
experts on this mailing list, but I didn't know here who would like to
be the "expert from afar". I suggested she contact Greg Kimball.

The teacher just wrote back, and got me to thinking.

Greg, will it be possible  for you to help one such teacher? for a few
such teacher? an unlimited number of such teachers?

Can any on the list suggest how to handle the logistics of getting a
history expert available to K-12 classes?

Anne

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