Dialogue with the past : engaging students & meeting standards through oral history Glenn Whitman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Glenn, 1969-

Series:

American Association for State and Local History book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral history--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Oral history.

Physical Description:

xii, 167 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, 2004.

Summary:

Contains tips, teacher and student examples, and reproducible forms for using oral history to engage secondary students in learning and help them complete an oral history project.

Contents:

Introduction: The case for oral history in your classroom program.

The student oral historian.

Getting started.

Creating an oral history project.

Conducting an oral history project.

Listening to experience: interviews with five oral history educators.

Voices from the field: the student oral historian.

The American Century Project.

Meeting standards.

Going public: linking curriculum and community.

Appendixes. The American Century Project (www.americancentury.org) ; Viewing guide to Nobody's business ; Standards and assessments worksheet (for education) ; Organizational log (for educators) ; Materials tracking log (for students) ; Preinterview worksheet ; Oral history project release form (Interviewee) ; Oral history project release form (Interviewer) ; Borrowed materials receipt ; Interview reminders ; Transcribing and editing guidelines ; Audio/visual time indexing log ; Historical contextualization paper ; Interview analysis ; Oral history project assessment rubric (Narrative) ; Oral history project assessment rubric (Checklist) ; Interview portfolio ; "Experiencing oral history" learning module and rubric ; Oral history coffee house invitation ; Oral history coffee house newspaper invitation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Whitman, Glenn, 1969- Dialogue with the past.

ISBN:

0759106487 (alk. paper)

9780759106482 (alk. paper)

0759106495 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780759106499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

54544111