Target
Audience
Open enrollment: SIUE Graduate students in education
Format
The 3 credit graduate course occurs during the summer term
with 45 contact hours. This course is usually offered as
a 3 week format.
Location
The course is held at the SIUE campus in a computer lab
to provide a “hands on” learning environment
in accessing digital media from the Library of Congress
website.
Course
Goal
The goal of this course is to prepare in-service and pre-service
classroom teachers to effectively access, integrate, and
produce curricula that utilize the digitized primary source
materials from the collections of the Library of Congress.
The course will focus on the nature of primary sources and
classroom applications for digital technology and will provide
hands-on experience using the historical texts, photographs,
motion pictures, maps and sound recordings from the Library
of Congress American Memory digital collections.
