Category: history
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From 671 trains in a day to six: Transformations in travel and learning
This afternoon my girls and I were able to spend about an hour at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, along with my sister and nephew. In addition to having some fun taking composite cartwheel pictures using Pano, we also learned a bit about the amazing history of Union Station and trains in the Kansas…
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Stories we wish we had recorded or could record
Thursday at the Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers workshop in Norman, I asked our participants to discuss and share stories they wish they had recorded or could record. Most of these were family stories, and many were about relatives who had lived amazing and interesting lives. I recorded these using the iPadio application on my iPhone, to…
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More book recommendations about the Middle East and Islam
This week I visited with some of my friends and others in the Washington DC area who are Middle East area experts (in the USAF) and I asked them for recommendations for books about the Middle East and Islam. I recently finished “Faith at War” by Yaroslav Trofimov and enthusiastically recommend it. These are other…
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Podcast352: Artillery at the Battle of Yorktown, Revolutionary War Field Surgery, and the Battle of Great Bridge
This podcast features three different recordings from the Yorktown Victory Center in Yorktown, Virginia, on July 3, 2010. Historical interpreters on the site brought history alive for our family and others in attendance, describing a 6 pound gun as well as mortar like those used in the siege of Yorktown which ended the American Revolutionary…
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5 generations of babies: Rocking the same cradle
I find the concept of “place-based storytelling” compelling. Places often have stories. Objects can have stories too, and that is the case in Edna Parrish’s six minute video, “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Baby Cradle.” This is a touching story of a baby cradle from the mid-1800s which has criss-crossed the American midwest multiple times…
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The Importance of Telling the Stories of Your Photos
How many shoeboxes or albums of photographs have you seen which contain stories no one documented? In her five minute video, “What’s Your Story? The Importance of Telling the Stories of Your Photos,” MidDel Public Schools, Oklahoma educator Margaret Nan Harkey makes a compelling case for why we ALL need to help document the stories…
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Kansas Teachers: Register for Celebrate Kansas Voices (CKV) 4-6 August 2010!
If you are a PK-20 teacher in Kansas, you’re invited to apply now to participate in a 2.5 day “Celebrate Kansas Voices” digital storytelling workshop to be held at Kansas State University 4-6 August 2010. Enrollment in CKV workshops is limited to 25 participants. A complete agenda for the CKV workshop is available. Participants will…
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First certified African American Teacher in Mountain View Gotebo Schools, Oklahoma
Sean Buchanan‘s autobiographical 4.5 minute video he created last week and shared on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community is outstanding. (“You’re Going Where?“) The way he told this story really caught me by surprise when he shared it. I’ve given away the surprise with the title of this post, which Sean included in the…
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Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing (supplementary curriculum videos)
Brad Logan from Mountain View – Gotebo Schools in Oklahoma created and shared the 5.5 minute video, “Sister’s Story,” on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community. This powerful video recounts his sister’s memories of the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Brad did a great job including his…
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Remembering April 19, 1995
Fifteen years ago today, a twenty-six year old United States citizen and former US Army veteran detonated a 4,800 pound homemade bomb in the heart of my state capitol. 168 people were killed in the blast, including 19 children under the age of 6. More than 680 people were injured. Today we remember this tragedy,…