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==__Learning Activity 2-A-1 Wiki Instructions__==

===To add a link:===
 * 1) Click the **Edit**tab in the upper-right corner.
 * 2) Scroll down the page until you see the first "//Link Goes Here//."
 * 3) Highlight the "//Link Goes Here//" text.
 * 4) Click on the **Link**button on the Editor bar.
 * 5) Click the **External Link**tab.
 * 6) In the **Link Text**field, enter the name of your resource.
 * 7) In **Address**field, enter the entire web address for your resource.
 * 8) Select the **New Window**checkbox.
 * 9) Click the **Add Link**button.
 * 10) Under your link, highlight the "//Your Name//" text.
 * 11) Type your name.
 * 12) Press **Save** on the Editor bar.

===To add an annotation:===
 * 1) After reviewing a resource, click the **Edit**tab in the upper-right corner.
 * 2) Scroll down the page until you see the resource you reviewed.
 * 3) Highlight the "//Annotations//" text directly under the resource.
 * 4) Type your annotations.
 * 5) Under your annotations, highlight the "//Your Name//" text.
 * 6) Type your name.
 * 7) Press **Save** on the Editor bar.

__ **Learning Activity 2-A-1** __

Annotated Sources
[Wiki] This activity has two parts: posting links and annotating links.

Part 1

 * 1) Review the Key Information on **Online Resources** and **Wikis**. Follow the directions to sign up for an account on the wiki site; having an account lets your instructor give you credit for your work.
 * 2) Search online to find an additional 3 resources to share with your classmates.
 * 3) On the wiki for the course, share your 3 resources. Include the name and a link for the resource. Each of your resources should be a new contribution to the list; do not duplicate someone else’s link.

Part 2

 * 1) For 3 resources **added by someone else**, add annotations to describe what is provided. In your description, include what kinds of primary sources are provided and what subject matter is covered.

=Annotated Sources=

Online Schools
====After reviewing the online resources for schools website, some of the primary sources discussed are journals, documents, letters, diaries, memoirs and artifacts. Found on this site, there are things such as 100 documents in U.S. History, Collection of Historical Documents, Pre-Colonial through Present Times, Governmental and Native American Documents just to name a few. On the site there are also autobiographies, memoirs and diaries from the Civil War,The Great Depression, Amelia Earhart and Sallie McNeill. There are newspaper articles from American History and United States Newspapers of current and historical events. Also, there are speeches from the inaugural addresses, war messages, and Nobel Prize speeches as well as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream." Audio Files from Harry S. Truman are also on the site. There are visual materials from the Civil War and the Holocaust just to mention a couple, and American Artifacts as well as an Arrowhead Archive. The subject matter that is covered is History.==== Houghton Mifflin Company – S.S. Center ====The information on the website from the Houghton Mifflin Company has resources on United States History and World History. There are documents, maps and images on this site that can be used as primary source documents. For U.S. History, there are historical photos, maps, documents, letters, speeches, recordings, videos, prints and more from the Library of Congress's National Digital Library. There are papers of Jefferson Davis as well as documents from the American South on an electronic text archive from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and thats just to name a few. As for World History, there is a comprehensive catalog of books and other works called Alex. There is something called the Labyrinth which is a collection of medieval resources that includes an electronic library of poetry and prose in medieval languages, on-line bibliographies and professional directories. Lastly there is a Vincent Voice Library which is a site that features primary source sound samples, such as speech clips from many U.S. presidents and other notable figures in history. Once again, that is just to name a few. The subject matter that is covered is U.S. History and World History.====
 * Chris Lloyd
 * Dana Grandinetti
 * Chris Lloyd
 * Dana Grandinetti

Reference and User Services Association
====After reading the information on the RUSA website, there are different reputable websites listed which lead you into other sites which contain thousands of primary sources. The sites listed link you to Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. The subject matter that is covered is History.====
 * Chris Lloyd
 * Dana Grandinetti

University Libraries
====The University Libraries site provides not only a definition of what a primary and secondary source is, but it gives examples of each. The site is hosted by the University of Nevada-Reno. The site provides direct links to the sources online. There are a few sources that can only be accessed if you log into the University's Library with a special ID. This is a good site to use to understand about primary and secondary resources as well as having the ability to preview some actual examples.====
 * Dana Grandinetti
 * Chris Lloyd

Primary Documents Online - CSU
====The CSU San Marcos Library website provides all types of documents for many possible topics. When utilizing the website, you are able to access information on Books, Electronic Books, Journal information and Online Journals. You are even able to listen to Sound Recordings, view Video Recordings and obtain access to Research Databases. The collection provides an immense amount of information to each area of the University's Curriculum, which makes it very marketable information for all areas of study in a classroom. The extensive coverage of topics proves this source to be a very valuable one for Educators of all specialties.==== ==100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents==
 * Dana Grandinetti
 * ====Tara Giles====
 * Dana Grandinetti
 * This site provides a wonderful list of other online sites to access a plethora of primary sources. The site includes links to the Library of Congress, oral history and audio materials, and time period music, just to name a few. The main focus on the website is historical primary sources, which are organized by category (ancient history, American history, etc.) In addition, the links are organized by the type of source, whether it is a link to museum collections, periodicals, and newspapers, general search engines, or government documents. This website is a great starting point for any type of history research project and I already found some that I am sure to use in my lessons in the future such as NewspaperARCHIVE.com and the American Memory website.
 * Jenn Matyasovsky


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[|The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]

 * Ray Shreckengost

This website is a treasure for primary sources! The subject is history and the site provides an array of primary source materials. You can search and see the images of items in the collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History which include historical photographs, letters, speeches, diary entries, and much more. The Online Exhibits feature allows one to take and interactive tour through many of the sources that make up the collection. The collection may also be searched by topic or time period, and the site provides a special section titled “Teachable Documents” making it easily accessible for teachers and students alike when looking for available primary sources.
 * Jenn Matyasovsky

[|Primary Sources on the Web]
====I really like how this particular site gathered so much from all over the web. From the //Perseus Project// to //The American Memory// project, the website offers all of the information in a one stop, annotated site. //From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened After// offers a great deal of primary source documents from the very beginning of United States' History. The //New Deal Network// will be especially helpful for my project on the Great Depression. The site lacks any design elements...simply a list of sites with a description beneath each. Worth checking out.==== [|DocsTeach]
 * Ray Shreckengost
 * ====Kirsten Zelenky====
 * Ray Shreckengost

This website is part of the National Archives and the topic is American history. When you first go to the page, you can click on ready-made activities for teachers, using primary sources, or you can search the available primary documents. The documents are organized by historical time period, starting with the Revolutionary Period and going up through to Contemporary America. The collection of sources includes letters, speeches, original drawings and artwork, census records, treaties, and photographs. The activities are also organized by historical time period and each uses at least one historical document as part of the lesson. The activities are printable and provide the primary source, an overview of the lesson, teacher directions, and student objectives and instructions-what a great site!
 * Jenn Matyasovsky

American President: A Reference Resource
====This source includes primary sources dealing with all of the Presidents of the United State of America. The site includes video, audio, and text of presidential speeches. The site also includes images of the presidents. One really interesting source available on the site is the daily appointment schedule of the president. This is only available for two presidents, but this primary source really gives a rare insight into the daily life of the president. The site also includes recordings of phone conversations of some presidents. These recordings give us the opportunity to delve into the viewpoints of historical figures in a manner that the public rarely is afforded.====
 * Jenn Matyasovsky
 * Ray Shreckengost

The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
====This source proves to be a very creative way to teach students about American History through popular cultural means. The misson statement says that "it was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and relect the social consciousness of the era that protected them". This proves to be a great tool to utilized for a History or Civics class. The site gives information ranging from the year 1600 and also provides information projected all the way up to 2020. It also includes a Special Collections section that provides information on Diversity, as well as access to the Nation's Forum Recordings. Other specific topics are addressed, as well. Those specific links include the Civil War, WWI Era, Depression and WWII.====
 * Jenn Matyasovsky
 * ====Tara Giles====

Annenberg Media: A Biography of America
====This source focuses on American history from the first Americans (not the European variety) to the late 20th century. The primary sources that the site has are mostly images including photographs and artwork. However, the source includes links to a variety of websites with primary sources. The lists of websites are organized by the time period in American history. This is extrememly convenient because a search can be narrowed without a great deal of work. For example, I was able to find many primary sources to use for my Civil War project by simply clicking on "The Civil War" on the page provided in the link and then going from there. The primary sources that I found included newspaper articles, images, excerpts from speeches, complete speeches, complete written documents as well as excerpts, a variety of historical documents, autobiographies, and artwork. I am sure that there are other examples available. This is a really good resource for locating primary sources.====
 * Jenn Matyasovsky
 * Ray Shreckengost

[|Harvard Library]
The Harvard Library provides and extensive list of sources. I like how they are all alphabetized to allow the user to quickly find what they are looking for. The site has archived libraries, museums, research centers, and other types of rooms or expeditions that are from around the world. Each archive includes contact information, maps, website addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for the user to collect more information on the specific place. Each archive also provides whether or not the places are accessible to everyone. Anyone using this site can gain easy access to these places' website and then investigate further from there.
 * Tara Giles
 * Chris Lloyd

[|100 Milestone Documents]
 When I clicked on the link it took me to the website and I had to click on the link, 100 Milestone Documents, on the right hand side. It immediately took me to a complete list of documents from the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to name a few. When I clicked on the Emancipation Proclamation it showed the exact document and it allowed you to click on it to look at it closer. It was fascinating to see the actual document that was created in 1863. It offered a complete description of why it was such a milestone document in American history. This is a nice website for looking at the most significant and influential primary sources documents in American History.
 * Tara Giles
 * Caleb Calarco

[|University Library-Cal State]
The California State University Library page includes an extensive list of primary sources. The site explains how to access the primary resources that are listed on the site and also provides a link to access a search engine to search the web to find more specific sources. The site is nicely organized and provides not only a link to the primary resources, but it provides explanations about what is included on the sites. It includes speeches, newspapers, legal documents, visual materials, maps, music, and other government-related sources. This would be a great place to start if you were looking for political/government sources or US historical documents.
 * Tara Giles
 * Chris Lloyd

Smithsonian Library and Archival Resources

 * Kirsten Zelenky

This site seems to contain a massive amount of primary documents. There are numerous photographs, paintings, scanned documents, journal s and webcasts. The historical information available online from this source is staggering. This searchable database provides research opportunities into animals, art and history. From the collection of butterflies and moths to the images of museums no longer around one could use this source for just about any class.
 * Rachel Gabler

PBS - Amercian Experience
====This source is incredible! I have never heard of it, but will be utilizing it very often in the future. The specific site listed provides information based more for a History class because it deals with the 1930's and provides insight to what America's response was to the economic crisis that took place. IT provides various links and additional resources to use in order to add to the information being provided. Films, articles and various archives are provided to give the reader/researcher a further experience with understaing and learning the 1930's era. As I looked further into the site, though, and ventured into the PBS Website, I found information that would relate to any and all areas of study. The site ([|www.pbs.org]) leads into information for parents, students and teachers to utilize. When I clicked onto the teacher link, I realized that it provided information for teachers of all grade levels and subject areas to use. This site provides different information and lesson ideas to utilize with classes throughout the entire school, which is very good to know.====
 * Kirsten Zelenky
 * ====Tara Giles====

National Science Digital Library This site included a section on resources for teachers as well as a section with articles on how to incorporate primary sources in projects. Each field of science has its own page and the page contains resources such as links to online resources. Linking to the physics page there were a number of sites that had resources for information about physics topics as well as lesson plans and simulations that can be used. There were not many primary resources here but a large number of secondary sources were available.
 * Kirsten Zelenky
 * John Zelenky

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Civil War Trust
After reviewing the Civil War Trust website I noticed a good variety of primary sources. This website provided document, official records, addresses and speeches, prints and photos, and a good amount of other materials that would be useful for research. It also provides a complete list of the "most popular" primary sources documents from the Civil War. Another nice feature on this website is that it also provides Classroom Resources and Activities for Kids that would be especially useful in the classroom.
 * LuAnn Berger
 * Caleb Calarco

Penn State University digitized collection
Looking through the site there are number of Pennsylvania history sources. I looked at the material from the Johnstown Flood and it contained photos as well as links to other sources such as the Johnstown flood museum. It also contains many photos of Pennsylvania towns and cities from different time periods. This site would be very useful for a history project of a Pennsylvania town.
 * LuAnn Berger
 * John Zelenky

Duke University - David M. Rubenstein Book & Manuscript Library
====When I first saw this link, I thought I would be directed to a password protected site. I figured that Duke would require a researcher to either be registered or to be a member of the school to access this wealth of information. Happily, I was wrong. This sites offers a ton of information, from a great collection advertising from the 1850-1920's to a wonderful collection of diaries from women during the Civil War. The Duke Papyrus Archive is a great collection of scanned papyri from Egypt in ancient times. From photography (William Gedney) to a historical sheet music collection, this site provides an amazing array of primary source documents in a user friendly interface.====
 * LuAnn Berger


 * Kirsten Zelenky

Atomic Archive
====This source includes documents gathered during the development of the atomic age. The source also includes documents up until the early 2000's dealing with nuclear weapons. The primary sources on this site include letters, reports dealing with various aspects and events dealing with the development of atomic weapons, eyewitness accounts (including an eyewitness account of the Nagasaki bombing that I couldn't help but read), speech excerpts, and telegrams. Some of the historical events covered include The Manhattan Project, The Trinity Test, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.====
 * John Zelenky
 * Ray Shreckengost

Gallica digital library

 * John Zelenky

This is a great searchable database for manuscripts, images and other primary documents dating back hundreds of years, from around the world. Unfortunately the bulk of the database is in French so it was not particularly useful to poor old monolingual me but I have heard talk of massive expansion of this site on the internet and imagine eventually this will become a great resource around the globe.
 * Rachel Gabler

Dickinson College TMI resource center

 * John Zelenky

A massive collection of everything related to the Three Mile Island accident. Transcripts, newspapers, interviews, pamphlets are all organized and easily accessible. If one ever wondered exactly what happens, what people feel etc when a nuclear power plant looks like it is going to melt down, this would be where to start. A great number of the interviews are anonymous which to me lends authenticity as people wouldn’t be afraid they would get fired. I don’t exactly know how I would us this in a class at the secondary level but it was certainly interesting
 * Rachel Gabler

[|Shawnee Community College Interviews]

 * Rachel Gabler

The description of this site describes that in the 1970’s students of Shawnee Community College collected interviews, news articles, photos and memorabilia of local historical interest. There are transcripts from about 20 interviews discussing life in the early 20th century. This is the bulk of the collection. There are only four articles and just one other item. It is a good start and the interviews are priceless, but it would be nice to see this project expanded by current students.
 * LuAnn

[|U. of Penn Archives]
====The website provides an extensive list of primary source document ranging from books, reports, class records, yearbooks, photographs, history of the university, etc. This primary source primarily focuses on the University of Pennsylvania and its University Archives. It provides a nice amount of primary source documents that discuss what the school was doing during the time of the Civil War and other major American events such as that. Many famous Americans like Benjamin Franklin are part of the University's history.====
 * Rachel Gabler
 * Caleb Calarco

[|Historical Society of Pa]
====When I clicked on this link, it told me it had moved. However, it moved me to it so I had no trouble. The History Online, with its Digital History Projects, the Exhibits, and the Media Library, is the most useful. The interactive timeline contains a great overview of a specific time in Pennsylvania history, including photos and other illustrations from each time. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers is a fascinating collection of primary sources. The media library provides a number of links to video, photo, audio, and documents. The Collections section is full of great searchable primary sources, but most of the sources are not actually available online. Overall a great site for anyone interested in finding out about Pennsylvania history.====
 * Rachel Gabler
 * Kirsten Zelenky

[|Smithsonian Source]

 * Caleb Calarco
 * The Smithsonian Source has a variety of “resources for teaching American History.” Topics included are Western expansion, transportation, civil rights, invention, Colonial America, and Native American history. Primary documents include documents, artifacts and photographs. The website also offers lesson plans, handouts and questions for students, and a related video. Although limited in subject area, what is offered is excellent.
 * LuAnn Berger

[|AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History]
====An excellent timeline of American History, it has over 2000 entries. Starting with an entry c. 837 through 2005, it covers the span of American History. Some are images of documents, others are text files of the original documents, translated to English when necessary. Unfortunately, a number of the links are dead; one site said they had changed their web address in 2004. Near the top of the page are links for installing Real Player and Quicktime. So I searched for MP3 files to see what was available in that format. There were several audio readings of documents. The first one I selected was not a valid link. It went to the website, but did not go to the mp3 file, and when I closed it, there was another page that had opened that was a sex ad – not something I would want my students to see! This site has a lot of potential but needs a lot of work before using it in a classroom setting.====
 * Caleb Calarco
 * LuAnn Berger

[|Making of America]
A collection of digitized books from the civil war era. It includes the time period of Antebellum to Reconstruction. The topics go from teachers salaries to manufacturing to an algebra textbook from 1874. The site also includes books of maps from many different years. The collection includes 10,821 books that can be searched by author, subject or title. The books are scanned from the original books and set up by page or chapter. The ability to search for a source is there as well as searching the individual books by keywords. This is a great way to look at books about how america was built from the past.
 * Caleb Calarco
 * John Zelenky

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