Calisphere - web resource for educators

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Hi everyone,

Susan Dubin has found a great digital resource - "Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources":
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

From the website:

"Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history...

A variety of primary sources have been collected into sets that support the California Content Standards in History-Social Sciences, English-Language Arts, and Visual Arts for use in K-12 classrooms."

You can search by historical theme or browse a list of keywords, and Calisphere texts or images can be used in the classroom without permission.

A section of interest may be that on the Japanese American internment during World War II.

-Miranda

[Anonymous]

The Calisphere website that Susan found is fantastic! It allows me to search for academic resources that are tied to the California Standards. This is so helpful for us teachers. The information is divided into visuals and text and this will allow me to research subjects and prep for certain classes in a mindful, organized manner. Thanks for the tip, Susan, it is indeed a useful resource.

[Anonymous]

I agree. I have shared it with my fellow teachres and hope to use it's resources for the powerpoint we are talking about creating for our Asian unit.

Thanks Susan for the tip.

[Anonymous]

What a great and easy way to bring primary source documents and images into the classroom! Thanks for the tip!

[Anonymous]

Here is the web resource I posted in the other forum, also worth checking out:

http://www.askasia.org/

Very cool resources for teachers and students!

[Anonymous]

Calisphere is a great web-site and for those social science buffs, there is a great piece on JARDA (Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives) which also includes solid lesson plans for educators. Thank you for the new education resource.
M. Herrera

[Anonymous]

I also will be sending it my friends who teach in other area. This is a great resource from the lesson plans tied to standards to the pictures it's fantastic.
Thanks Susan great find!!!!

[Anonymous]

WOW! This is an awesome tool. Someone went through a lot of work to put that together. I'm sure our social studies department would love to see this. I love that the standards are right there. Thanks Susan for the great tip!

[Anonymous]

WOW this website is really efficient and awesome. I'm definitely passing this one on. It's a great tool. It will be more useful in my English class since the history is more recent, and I travel farther in time thanks

[Anonymous]

This is definitely going on the bookmark list! I wish I had this as a student! 😀

All of the websites reviewed have been an added bonus to the MANY benefits of this seminar! I've bookmarked so many sites thanks to so many kind folks' reviews, that my bookmark list needed a new East Asia folder!

Many thanks to all![Edit by="drivas on Jan 8, 10:32:12 PM"][/Edit]

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