American History Teachers' Collaborative Focus Workshop: Voices of the People

American History Teachers' Collaborative
Focus Workshop

Voices of the People

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Agenda

8:00 - 8:30	Welcome and breakfast
8:30 – 9:30	Discussion with Dr. James Barrett, "Oral History and the Individual in History"

9:30 - 9:45	Break
9:45– 11:00	Keynote by Dr. Stacey Robertson, "The Power of Individual Voices: Memoirs and Autobiographies in Teaching U.S. History"

11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:00	Breakout session 1 – Choose from the following: -Discussion session with Stacey Robertson in Room 1735 -“An Immigrant’s Tale: Would I Do It Again?” with Amos Lee in Room 1520 -Computer lab resources on teaching history using diaries and letters
12:00 - 12:45	Lunch
12:45 - 1:30	Breakout session 2 – Choose from the following: -Discussion session with Stacey Robertson in Room 1735 -“An Immigrant’s Tale: Would I Do It Again?” with Amos Lee in Room 1520 -Computer lab resources on teaching history using diaries and letters

1:30 - 1:45	Break
1:45 - 2:15	Mini-session 1: Choose from the following: -“Unheard Asian American Voices” with Alice Lee in Room 1735 -“Mighty Tired: A Year in the Life of a Champaign County Farmwife” with Karen Klebbe in Room 1550 - “Listening as an Act of Love” with Kimberlie Kranich in Room 1520 - Oral history sites in the computer lab

2:20 - 2:50	Mini-session 2: Choose from the following: - “Mighty Tired: A Year in the Life of a Champaign County Farmwife” with Karen Klebbe in Room 1550 - “Dropping the Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima” with Christine Adrian in Room 1731 - “Listening as an Act of Love” with Kimberlie Kranich in Room 1520 - Oral history sites in the computer lab

3:00 - 3:30	Mini-session 3: Choose from the following: -“Dropping the Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima” with Christine Adrian in Room 1731 -“Emotions, Historiography, and Hurricane Katrina” with Don Barbour in Room 1520 -“Using Books to Emotionally Engage Students in History” with Krista Ruud in the library -People’s history sites in the computer lab

3:35 - 4:05	Mini-session 4: Choose from the following: -“Emotions, Historiography, and Hurricane Katrina” with Don Barbour in Room 1520 -“Unheard Asian American Voices” with Alice Lee in Room 1735 -“Using Books to Emotionally Engage Students in History” with Krista Ruud in the library -People’s history sites in the computer lab

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