Community Heritage Project

Online Resources

General Resources

http://www.bjpinchbeck.com

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: a website created by a 12 year old boy and his dad. Over 550 sights to help fellow students access information on the WWW.

http://www.dogpile.com

Dogpile: a Metasearch engine, a search engine that searches a host of other search engines and directories all at once.

Big6

http://big6.syr.edu/

The Big6 Home page: an overview of the process with example

http://www.st-agnes.org/library/projects/bigsix.html

St. Agnes Academy: pages containing actual Big6 projects
http://www.voicenet.com/~srussell/bigsixdigit.html

Big Six Digits: Follow the steps of the process for an actual Big6 project on site at an archaeological digsite.

http://www.kindred.k12.nd.us/CyLib/B6.html

Kindred, ND schools Big6 Projects: Learn about Big6 and visit actual projects using Big6.

http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/webcamp/final_projects/barney/big6.html

Teaching Information Literacy: The Big Six Skills Approach: Pam Barney's (Instructional Resource Center, Central Florida University)page describing the process and how it works.

Internet Basics

http://www.msubillings.edu/kpl/CPP-LLL.htm#WWW

Training Technology Seminars: Tutorial pages for technology applications created by Kirk Lacy, Associate Professor, MSU-Billings.

http://www.msubillings.edu/kpl/WWWTutor.htm

Intro to the Internet & the WWW: Tutorial pages for Internet use created by Kirk Lacy, Associate Professor, MSU-Billings.

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/shows.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A slide show version describing the Internet and how to use it.

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/yp.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A guide to Internet information.

Oral History/Interviewing

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/rohotips.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A guide to Internet information.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/1minute.html

One-Minute Guide to Conducting Oral History.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm

Oral History Questions: A list of great questions to ask when conducting oral histories

http://www.sky.net/~mreed/primer.htm

A Genealogy Primer: A quick overview of how to conduct genealogy research.

Media Production

http://www.kqed.org/cell/school/vidprod/virtues.htm
Virtues of Video Production: A video production guide.

http://www.pomona.edu/visual-lit/intro/intro.html

The On-Line Visual Literacy Project: A description of visual literacy, its components, and how to achieve them.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx/effects/

All About Special Effects: a PBS article about special effects: the history and how they are created.

http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FA/home/gatec.html

Gateway to Media Literacy: a media literacy online project ( a list of links about media literacy) created by the College of Ed, University of Oregon

Web Page Construction

http://www.screen.com/start/guide/HTML.html

Life on the Internet: a list of links to HTML resources for creating web pages.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html

A Beginners Guide to HTML: an introductory guide for producing documents in HTML, the language for the WWW.

/lincon/tech_web_start.shtml

Getting Started with Writing Web Pages: The LInC course online guide to creating web pages.

 

Oral History Projects

www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

What Did You Do in the War Grandma? : An oral history project by South Kingstown High School.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968

The Whole World Was Watching: A Brown University oral history project about issues from 1968.

http://www.cbv.ns.ca/bec/comlinx.htm

Breton Education Centre, Community Links: A website created featuring the products of a community education project.

Community Resources

http://www.fortbenton.com

Fort Benton, MT Community Home Page: A web site that links to many separate pages of interest about the Birthplace of Montana.

http://www.fortbenton.com/museums/index.htm

Fort Benton, Montana's Heritage Complex: Visit the museums of Fort Benton, MT via the web. Learn about the history of the American West.

http://www.discovery-school.org/Spokanehistory.html

Spokane -- The Way It Was: A timeline of the history of Spokane, WA created by Spokane school students.

http://www.edheritage.org/

The Montana Heritage Project: the home page of the Montana Heritage Project. A project where eight Montana schools are involved in Community-Centered Education.

 

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