OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

April 18, 2002
Westlake Middle School
4:00 - 6:00 pm

4:00-4:20	Refreshment and writing time. Please come prepared to comment on last month’s presentation by Leon Litwack
4:20–5:30	Speaker: Lynn Jones, UC Berkeley Library "Psyching Out Sources: Historical Thinking Skills and Information Skepticism " Powerpoint Presentation - html version Lynn Jones is a member of the teaching staff at UC Berkeley Library where she works with UC Berkeley's California Heritage Project . She is also the author of the website The United Farm Workers' Union: The 1965 Grape Boycott: A Case Study in Strategy.
5:30–6:00	Next Steps & Lesson Study Group Meetings
Related Resources from L. Jones	OUSD Library Services Page - links to all reference databases http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/tlc/resources/libraryresources.html Who killed William Robinson http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/indexnn.html Investigations: What exactly do historians do? http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly/wciv/investigations.htm New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/ eg. Images of the Depression Era I C You See: T is for Thinking http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html Internet Detective http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html American Memory Learning Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html e.g. Media Analysis Tools History Matters > Making Sense of Evidence http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/ Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Librarian’s Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org Whois.net http://www.whois.net/ Media Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca/ eng/webaware/tipsheets/qktips.htm Evaluating Web Pages: Online Tutorial Joe Barker, UC Berkeley Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/ Internet/EvalQuestions.html Ideas for Library / Information Assignments http://www.mun.ca/library/research_help/ qeii/assignment_ideas.html