Visualizing Japan in Modern World History

Recipient: Parisi, Lynn S (Boulder, CO 80309-0279 USA) in affiliation with University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO 80309 USA)

Goal: A five-day workshop and follow-up activities for thirty teachers from a seven-state region to study the emergence of modern Japan from the late Tokugawa period through the Meiji period (1853 to 1911).

Description: The University of Colorado Program for Teaching East Asia proposes "Visualizing Japan in Modern World History" (dates 11/1/08-10/31/09), a digital humanities workshop to introduce teachers to new scholarship and resources on the development of modern Japan from 1853-1911/late Tokugawa-Meji periods. The workshop will be based on MIT's "Visualizing Cultures" (VC), a state-of-the-art digital project containing modules and databases that enable scholars, teachers, and students to engage with rare art resources to examine Japan's path to modern nation-state and empire. Through this residential workshop, 30 secondary teachers from seven states will work with leading scholars and curriculum developers to integrate the VC project's cutting-edge scholarship, previously inaccessible humanities resources, and creative pedagogy into world history and other appropriate curricula. Participating teachers will develop lessons to use in their own teaching and shared with other educators nationally.

Grant: 191697 / AZ-50029-08,   Category: Art History and Criticism,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Using Primary Artifacts to Understand Presidential Decision Making

Recipient: Resta, Paul E (Austin, TX 78712-4655 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712 USA)

Goal: A four-day workshop for twenty-five social studies teachers to examine materials documenting the historical and political contexts in which U.S. presidents made crucial decisions.

Description: In the proposed workshop, participants will be introduced to approaches to examining presidential decision making and will build upon that knowledge during a review of theoretical and practical approaches to incorporating historical reasoning into social studies education. Primary source materials from The Presidential Timeline (PTL), as well as other repositories, will be used throughout the workshop. These materials offer unique opportunities for creating digital narratives. Teachers will receive training in three free online tools especially well suited for this purpose. Ultimately, teacher teams will create classroom activities that focus on a significant presidential decision, utilize digital primary resources, require historical reasoning, and lead to the creation of a digital narrative as a student deliverable. These activities will be disseminated through the PTL and tips for their classroom implementation will be offered via a series of live and recorded webinars.

Grant: 191691 / AZ-50023-08,   Category: History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

New Perspectives on Early Modern China

Recipient: Martin, Roberta H (New York, NY 10027 USA) in affiliation with Columbia University

Goal: Teacher workshops in New York, Florida, and Texas that draw upon the digital resources of Asia for Educators to explore topics in early modern China.

Description: Columbia University?s Asia for Educators program proposes to chair a network of on-line and face-to-face workshops exploring the topic of early modern China with teachers in three of the most populous states: New York, Florida, and Texas. Columbia will partner with two other institutions, the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of North Texas in Dallas. Scholars of modern China at each of the three partnering institutions will work with teachers from their geographic area separately during some of the workshop sessions and scholars, teachers, and guest speakers will share ideas and lessons plans through video-conferencing at other sessions. The workshops will draw on the outstanding digital humanities modules on its website: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu, ?Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tours of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors? and ?China and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is ?Modern??

Grant: 186729 / AZ-50012-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

Summer Seminar in Digital History Teaching

Recipient: Gaige, Karina (New York, NY 10036 USA) in affiliation with Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Goal: A four-day workshop for thirty school teachers focused on digital resources on the American Revolution and the Civil War.

Description: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History seeks funding for a digital humanities workshop in American history for elementary and secondary school teachers. The four-day seminar, to be held in New York City in August of 2007, will introduce participants to the rich variety of public domain primary source material available on the Internet, including documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Guided by well-known scholars, participants in the seminar will examine primary sources from the American Revolution and the Civil War, and explore ways in which they can use free, widely available software in the classroom to create multimedia historical documentaries with their students. Most importantly, the seminar will demonstrate how teachers can harness students' enthusiasm for digital technology while at the same time immersing them in primary sources from American history.

Grant: 186721 / AZ-50004-07,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007