Joanne Prettyman
SLM521 Summer 2005
Required Activities
Link Bibliography - Web links pertaining to Immigration to the United States from 1800-1910. Students will use this page when doing their immigration web search and their Letter from an Immigrant assignment.
Search Engine Activity - Mrs. P's Search Engine Sites. This page is designed for you to use as you search for information during project and media center work.
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/srchengn.htm)Copyright Activity - This page is designed for you to use as you familiarize yourself with what is copyright laws. What exactly is legal and illegal to use from a web site? Hmmm!?
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/cpyrite.htm)Laptop Learning - Article Critique - Is the computer age here to stay? Will laptops replace chalkboards and spiral notebooks in the future? Hmm!?
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/critic.htm)My Activity Log - Even though this is an on-line computer generated course...we still kept a few notes the "old-fashioned" way! Check for moans, groans, ranting, raving, and articles to read about on-line learning!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/.htm)Course Module - Blogging - Blogging – or weblogging – is, in short, your creation of a web page with an actual URL (web address) – which allows you, the creator, to interact with anyone, anywhere, at anytime!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/cmblog.htm)
Web Dropin Assignments
Drop In #1 - Colonial America Timeline
This activity is designed to introduce you to Colonial America. At this point "we" are not "we" yet! We are still a colony of England and Queen Elizabeth wants her men to explore and settle in a new world.Drop In #2 - Mythconception Activity
See if some of your mythical beliefs about Colonial America need to be "busted!"
Drop In #3 - Women's Suffrage: The Struggle
The fight for women’s suffrage was a literal war of words, petitions, rallies, and hunger strikes. Who were these great women who fought so valiantly for a right they felt all citizens of this great nation should have? What did they do for their cause? How did they suffer? What was the eventual outcome of their work? All of these questions, and more, can be answered through the following activity.Drop In #4 - Secession and the State of the Union
In this study, you will be analyzing maps and assessing their value to the historian.
Drop In #5 - Immigration Entrance: Ellis Island
We have discussed immigration to the United States during the period of the “old” immigrants and the “new” immigrants – from the English to Eastern Europeans, of all religions and ethnic groups. But how did those immigrants – especially the “new” immigrants – enter the United States ? How did the United States keep track of the multitudes of people entering her shores? What did those people do, once they entered America "The Great?"
Drop In #6 - Weapons of Mass Destruction - WWI
The Balkan Peninsula, in continental Europe, was known as the “Balkan Powder Keg” – any day some Slavic Nationalist was going to light a match – and then – BOOM! In June of 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, with his wife Sophia, was visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. A nineteen-year-old male, Gavrilo Princip, and six others had formed a splinter terrorist group from the Pan-Slavic movement. Their plan: kill the duke – set the Slavic people free! As the parade line moved through the city six out of the seven males failed to achieve their goal – Gavrilo did. He shot the duke, who died on the way to the hospital, and shot his wife, who died immediately. WWI was born! This exercise is designed to make you experts on new weapons of World War I.
Electives - Instruction
Citing Internet Resources - How do I give credit where credit is due?!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/citsorc.htm)Collaboration - Communication on the Internet with other schools, classrooms, and lessons. A tool for teachers to use with their class when they want to "talk" to other schools nationally and internationally.
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/collab.htm)Worksheets - Hey, teachers...pretty self-explanatory! Worksheets for the Social Studies.
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/wrksheets.htm)Virtual Field Trips - Budget cuts? Hate permission slips? Can't stand riding on the "cheese wagon?!" Here's the answer to getting those buggers out of the building, without leaving the building! Check it out!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/fldtrip.htm)Teacher Made Web Sites - For teachers...to use as examples...to create your own...do it all web site!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/teachweb.htm)Lesson Plans for Teachers- The following are five different web sites that have teacher made lesson plans centering on Social Studies lessons and units of study. They are not ranked in any particular order - as I found all of them equally useful for our courses and courses in history! Enjoy - and feel free to use any and/or all!
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/lessonpl.htm)
Electives - Communication
Newsletters - Communication on the Internet through Newsletters
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/nwsltrs.htm)
Electives - Utilities
Urban Myths and Hoaxes - Was that little girl really kidnapped from Hersheypark?! Are there really heroin needles in the ball pit at McDonalds?! Come On!!! Get A Grip!!! Check out this site and maybe your fears and dizziness will be put to rest!
(http://www.snopes.com/)
Electives - Miscellaneous
Publishing Student Work on the WWW - How many of us have dreamed of being “published” and/or publishing exemplary work from our students? I know I have…dreamed…dreamed of walking up to accept my Nobel Prize for Literature…! Well, that’s never going to happen, but publishing our students’ exemplary work can happen? How? Read below and find out.
(http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/publish.htm)
Electives - Legal
Plagiarsm - Teach your students - and yourself if you're unsure - the EXACT definition of plagiarsm and how to cite resources! (http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/prettymanj/plag.htm)