Hello, everyone.
Greetings from the National Archives in Washington, DC.
My name is Katie Munn and I am an education specialist here. We are so excited that you are joining
us tonight for our webinar, World War One Resources for the Classroom: The Remembering World War
One app and DocsTeach.org.
I am so excited to be joined by Kerri Young Engagement Manager at Historypin in San Francisco.
Thank you for being here tonight Kerri.
Looking at our poll results it looks like you teach this topic in a variety of wonderful ways.
Whether looking at primary sources, conducting simulations, through lectures and textbooks, videos,
There are a lot of wonderful resources out there.
We hope after tonight's webinar you will leave with more tools in your tool box for approaching
this topic in your classroom in an engaging way.
We are going to start by looking at Remembering World War One,
which is an app that invites audiences to explore collaborate and engage with the Archives'
extensive collection of World War One moving and still images.
This app is part of a national collaborative effort with Historypin so I'm going to hand
it over to Kerri to give us an overview of this application. Cool. Okay.
Let me just start to share my screen here.
So you all can see.
There is my presentation hopefully you all can see that.
Let me bring it full screen as well.
So, yes I wanted to give you a quick background on remembering World War One
and the war time films project that it is a part of.
Since the public launch of the app on April 6, we have been continuing to add features
and improve it based on audience user testing from teachers out there such as yourselves.
And now we just want to be able to share it as widely as possible.
We are really proud of what we have been able to create over the past year, and the app
is now free and available as a fantastic tool that's really as Katie mentioned helping to
provide greater access and increase local reuse of all of the National Archives World
War One content that's being digitized.
And just for purposes of not saying U.S. National Archives I will say NARA for short moving forward.
So, this app pilot is part of the larger war time films project.
As a result of a grant from an anonymous donor NARA has been digitizing this really rich
collection of early 20th Century and World War One era content over the past few years.
And much of it has really never been before seen by the public.
This includes over 100,000 photographs and also several hundred reels of film
originally shot by the U.S. Signal Corps in the 1914 to 1920 time frame.
So, we just really want to make sure that all of this expertly digitized content is
reaching different audiences, which is the focus of the larger project itself.
And that's why we at Historypin were brought on as partners to help lead this engagement effort.
And really short background on us we partner with institutions to run community‑led engagement
efforts around local history and heritage really with a focus on social impact.
And just looking at these photographs it's just to look at some of the motion picture
preservation team at work at the National Archives facility in College Park
restoring and digitizing some of the films that we are now sharing through the app.
Doing some amazing work.
And so the Remembering World War I app pilot is a major component of this larger project.
So, with the rich World War I films and photographs available for use kind of in light of this
year's 100‑year anniversary of the U.S. entering World War I we chose to tie into
the renewed interest in the conflict and also to local and national efforts focused on the centenary.
I just want to show some examples of the NARA films and photographs that we are sharing
in the app so you have an idea of some of the richness of the sources available and
the themes that we can help our audiences explore.
I will also dig into a little bit deeper later.
This is an amazing photograph of the women's machine gun squad police reserve in New York City during World War One.
We also have an opportunity to explore race relations at that time
compare life for minorities in service to life on the home front to take a look at the diverse regiments who served
in the war as well.
We can also explore late ‑‑ excuse me, medical technology, soldier rehabilitation.
We can also take a look at labor history and protests happening at the time as well.
This is a photograph from our partners at the Library of Congress.
We have many, many great films of training on the home front like this one depicting
chemical war fare training in Camp Upton in New York.
Of course liberty loan drives and propaganda on the home front of a major theme with participation
from different minorities, children, even the American Library Association, the Red Cross, et cetera.
This is a famous silent film star, Sessue Hayakawa, at a liberty bond rally in Los Angeles.
So, for this pilot, we have been engaging teachers, museums and digital humanity scholars.
We want teachers and educators like yourselves to use the app to enhance the lesson on
World War One in the classroom.
We would like museums to re‑use these materials to enrich the narrative around their own local
World War One collections and on the back end we would love for humanity scholars to utilize
and reuse all of the metadata that we are generating from this content.
As you just saw at the heart of this project is just hundreds of moving images and thousands
of photographs being preserved digitized by NARA curators.
Before there was an app before we started designing we talked to these NARA experts
of the pictures and the films we would be show casing to really learn about how we
can best focus on the experience of the content itself.
This is really one of the first cross unit production for NARA with multiple units collaborating
to make this possible.
We also held external user design workshops to explore user journeys and use cases figuring
out kind of the way that people would actually want to interact with this content was the
first step in determining our requirements and our designs so we met with representatives
from the three audiences groups including having several teacher workshops making sure
to talk with the people who would ultimately benefit the most from the end product.
And we are also fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with the Library of Congress and
Smithsonian Museum of American History who each provided their original World War One records
for the app. This project is really the perfect opportunity to combine these rich openly licensed reusable
content from across national institutions in commemoration of the centennial.
Them and our distribution partners that you can see here are really helping to ensure
that our audiences are connected to the extensive collection of resources.
So, a little bit into the app itself now.
With World War One as our focus our priority was to really gather collections together
in a way that would enable people to tell stories.
And though I don't need to tell you all this, teachers and museums place significant importance
on understanding historical documents, constructing theses, finding documents to help explain
those theses, so understanding this from our user design process helped us identify goals
for an application that would really speak to both of these target audiences and the
ways in which they would want to engage with these records.
And as you can see here from the screen shot we have been working to correct
theme collections based on World War I subjects recommended during our app teacher workshops.
And these collections will provide jumping off points for content discovery, and can
serve as inspiration for you.
And to date we have about 80 collections in here for you to go through.
And all of the films uploaded into the app have been segmented into clips for easier
re‑use.
Many of these clips have been enriched with additional locations, subjects, and date information
based on newly digitized production files or shot lists for each film.
Let me tell you it's pretty amazing to go through these original shot lists giving scene by scene
information of who is in the clip, where it's taking place, et cetera, this is really the
first time that those original documents are being associated with the films themselves
for an enriched browsing experience.
As teachers and educators you can create your own narrative collections reusing any of the
NARA or partner content within the app.
And this is an example of the edit collection screen in the app.
How you can give it a title, say who created it, a description, you can add different chapters
if you would like to break up your collection narratively that way.
And a quick note of ‑‑ about signing up.
If you are a teacher, please be sure to just click the "I am a teacher" the box next to
I am a teacher and that will ensure that any collections that you create and any collections
that other teachers create will be gathered in a dedicated section.
So you will be able to more easily find what other educators are creating in the app.
And so we are seating as much of this content as possible through our platform on Historypin
which is location‑based.
So, this gives you an additional way to access the content, if you do not have access to
tablets in your classroom, for example, you will be able to find all of the same thematic
collections here on Historypin as well.
And I will go over this again a little briefly towards the end.
But I just wanted to mention it now.
As you can see, that's the same piece of content within the app that was on Historypin.
And you can also download the app, and find additional resources.
And also as you can see some World War One topics on the National Archives website at archives.gov.
This is just another place where you can access more resources.
Again I will share this at the end so you can access this information together.
And lastly I wanted to mention we held a recent workshop on creating documentation for how
teachers might use these primary sources as part of a lesson in the classroom.
We are in the process of getting these up here as well.
So, this is another place where you will be able to find those.
Now, I am going to stop sharing my screen and now I think it's a great opportunity to
take a close are look at one of the photographs that is featured in the app and see a closer
analysis of that.
So I will hand this over to Katie.
Great.
Thanks Kerri.
Yes, we have a lot of incredible resources in this app.
The next question is: How do you bring these into the classroom, and how do you have your
students engage with these resources.
One easy way of course is to introduce document analysis.
Here at the National Archives we have a couple of tools in the form of worksheets that you
can use to help your students engage with primary sources of all types.
Here we have our document analysis worksheet for novice or younger students, as well as
one for intermediate or secondary students.
These worksheets take students through the same four sets of questions, the same themes
of questions no matter what type of primary source they are looking at.
They start by with observations, meeting the photo, observing it trying to make sense of
it and observing its part and then using it as historical evidence.
Let's turn it back over to Kerri because we also want to show some additional ways to
explore the app in your classroom and hear from you different ideas that you might have
for how to bring this into your schools.
Yes, so now we are just going to take a quick look at an example of a thematic collection
within the app, as I mentioned before, every piece of content that we have uploaded into
the app and onto Historypin has been put into a thematic collection for easier reuse.
And this is an example of one ‑‑ how one typically looks if you were to enter a collection
from the main app screen.
And this is children's activities in World War I.
You will see there will always be a landing screen with a brief description, and background
to the topic itself.
And this screen that you see here is, as you ‑‑ as you scroll into the collection,
you will have all of the descriptive metadata that's available to you.
You will have the title, a description, we have also added any pinner's notes that we
have in regards to location, date, et cetera that we might have found in doing additional
research.
And you will have the date there, and there will always be a link back to the original
entry in the National Archives catalog as well if you wanted to take a closer look at
that.
And, finally, we have also extensively tagged every piece of content going in here as well.
So you can always click on those to look at related content.
And so, further down, I have put these into ‑‑ I put the photographs into the slide
show mode.
This is an example of the slide show mode that you can enter into in addition to that
more detailed view that you saw earlier.
And so, now, yeah we really want to hand it over to you, we will hand over the controls
so that you can browse through this yourself.
But we really want you to be able to tell us, you know, how you like to use this particular
collection in the classroom.
And already kind of thinking about ways off the top of my head, it is you know this collection
is really looking at how young people were affected by this conflict on the home front,
the ways that they participated, looking at gender roles as well really important kind
of were boys doing boy activities as it were, girls doing more feminine activities as it were.
And where did that blend?
I think it's really interesting as well to have students take a look at those who are
very similar in age themselves, also in school, kind of what ‑‑ what essentially would
I be doing if it were World War One now.
Which I think is really interesting.
And, yes, interesting point about showing more of ‑‑ photos of students ‑‑ of
children that would be closer to the students' age.
This is certainly ‑‑ I didn't mention an excerpt from this particular collection,
so if you go into the collection itself, there are tons more photographs that you will be
able to access as well.
And that is a good place where collection creation could also come in for a teacher
to create their own.
If you want to be selective about the types of photographs that you are using.
If you don't want to necessarily use a ready‑made one that we have available for you.
That's exactly what you can do in terms of creating our own collection that your students
can browse.
Someone mentioned language as being really important.
I totally agree.
With those ‑‑ those particular photographs of children pretending to lick the Kaiser
also burning German newspapers, kind of ‑‑ there are other examples of that within some of
the thematic collections that we have too.
There is an awesome one on surveillance, and just how German citizens in
the U.S. were really discriminated against and spied on and harsh language was used and
even in the NARA captioning it's officially kind of called "enemy activity" so taking
a look at that language that would have been used at the time is really important.
But these are great.
These are awesome so, thank you for sending in these suggestions.
There are some really great ones.
Yes, again, these are one of the many collections that you will have available to you both within
the app and on Historypin.
So, again if you don't have access to tablets in your school or in your class you are free
to go on Historypin to have them access these exact same collections on there as well.
Yes, so you can pair these sources with document analysis worksheets that Katie was showing
earlier, you can create your own collection if you would like to have these sources
help answer a particular unit focus question that you particularly have for your class.
And I also wanted to stress that, ultimately we want you to use these sources to make this
time period come alive.
We want you to help your students time travel to this time period ‑‑ this app
isn't meant to be a substitute for a textbook.
There will certainly ‑‑ and Katie will show you all of these other fantastic resources
that you can use to pair with this app, but this app is really giving that visual experience
and making that time period come alive.
And they are there for you to build your own narrative around them.
And, yeah, that's what I wanted to mention, so thank you again for the suggestions.
And so I guess now I can turn it over to Katie who will talk a bit more about these other
resources that you can use to pair with these films and photographs.
Great, thanks Kerri.
Yes, the amount of content in the app is incredible and so many fascinating entry points for students
to think about World War One.
Up next we are going to take a look at World War One resources in DocsTeach.org so I have
a quick poll to gauge your familiarity with DocsTeach.org the online tool for teaching
with documents from the National Archives.
Okay here we go you should see the landing page or your screen now.
Yes, you can explore primary sources discover activities that you can teach with and create
your own engaging activities.
Anyone can use this site to browse primary sources and teaching activities created by
the National Archives.
But if you create a free account, you can browse teaching activities created by other
educators and even use primary sources to create your own teaching activities.
The activities in DocsTeach range from the same document analysis questions that we saw
on the worksheets to activities that get students in that step of using primary sources
as historical evidence.
And really looking at primary sources like historians, and linking docs together to see
cause and effect and then fitting pieces together to see the whole story.
There are many different tools that hit different levels of Bloom's taxonomy and historical
thinking skills and we will take a look at a couple of examples.
I want you to show you how to find the World War One resources.
If you go to popular topics you can see we have compiled a lot of great topics here for
you to explore there is a page all about World War One.
On this page you will find primary sources arranged by topic as well as teaching activities.
As well as a link back to the Remembering World War One app.
These collections overlap each other but not everything can be found in both collections
as we continue to grow what's available in the app and in DocsTeach.
For an example of a teaching activity, we can take a look at one about Americans on
the home front helping to end World War I.
Each teaching activity has the teacher page where you can check out the suggested teaching
instructions as well as see the grade level the bloom taxonomy and thinking skills and
era associated with the activity.
And then if you press the start activity you can see the student page where students receive
different instructions.
In this case students are matching documents to 9 ways that Americans on the home front
could help win World War One.
And this activity they will actually click on the different documents to make matches
and can click on the little square with the arrow icon to view the document in its entirety.
When students are done, if you have a DocsTeach account they can actually submit their responses
to your questions or wrap up questions to you on the website and you can review their
responses online.
So, this is a great way to get students engaging with primary sources in a different way.
We can also take a look at another type of activity which is this one here comparing
World War One food conservation posters.
This is a compare and contrast activity.
Where students will view two different posters that seem to be the same until we see that
it is actually printed in different languages.
And then students can ‑‑ you can use these discussion questions as the starting place
with the students to think about why the U.S. food administration might have created posters
in different languages.
And pick up, use those document analysis skills to see what other features they observe in
the posters.
So whether having students work on these activities on their own as a class activity, they offer
some great ways to engage with documents and help students get used to analyzing primary
sources and using them as historical evidence.
That is, very quickly, DocsTeach.org.
There are a couple of guides for you on how to create the teaching activities, walk through
the step by step process, and if it's something that you are interested in, makes it pretty
easy for you to do.
I want to share one other resource here at the National Archives related to World War One
This one is from the Center for Legislative Archives, which provides preserves and provides
access to the records of Congress.
This here is a ‑‑ let's see.
There we go.
This is a draft of eBook that the Center is currently working on about America and the
World: Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons 1898 to 1940 this features the cartoons of Clifford Berryman
In this eBook
you will find a great collection of political cartoons related to World War One as well as
some background information and analysis and discussion questions.
This can be another tool and another lens at looking at World War One in your classroom.
I am going to go ahead and hand the controls back over to Kerri, I think there are a couple
of other things that she wanted to share as well.
So I just wanted to, again, show you Historypin just so you have a little better sense of
how to navigate this this particular collection.
Again, if you don't have access to a tablet this site is available to you and as you can
see here (indicating) you will find all of the same collections as they are on the app
you can see some from the Library of Congress.
And then these are arranged by location.
You can see the map on the left.
So, this gives you a really great way to explore these primary sources geographically.
And so the way this works in particular is that as you move the map on the left, the
content will appear on the right if it is located within that particular map view.
So, if I wanted to zoom in and just take a look at that ‑‑ those couple of pieces
of content.
In Florida, that's how you would narrow that down.
There's a filter at the top as well, these are arranged by most popular but you can also
look at recently added, A to Z.
And also I want to give ‑‑ go into one of these collections.
Here are some propaganda posters like the one Katie was just showing you.
This is the look if you went into the collection.
You see all of the posters here (indicating) anything on Historypin and you scroll down,
you see that there is the description who contributed it.
The rough dates.
Rough location.
All of the tags, all of the metadata.
The fact that these are amazingly in the public domain as is everything else within this collection.
Who created it.
Which government organization did.
The link back to the catalog again all of the same information that you will be finding
within the app as well.
And also, going to the archives.gov page for the World War One centennial, so much like how DocsTeach
has that World War One topics page there is also a more general centennial landing page where you
can find out about what is happening within the World War One celebrations it will certainly
link back to the DocsTeach page as well.
You can see the link the page for the app here where you can go to download it.
We also designed some really awesome posters if you would like to print those where you
are, also a brochure that you can distribute to fellow colleagues.
Fellow teachers.
A short video to learn more about the app.
So, yes, this is just some other resources that are available to you and really quickly
I just want to go back and browse.
Because there is ‑‑ there is just so much ‑‑ so much great stuff.
And it's ‑‑ it's really hard to go through all of these and not lose a couple of hours,
certainly.
Something that you can do in the app and on Historypin as well, if you want to filter
by only films or only photographs, you can do that.
So, you can type in "video" to only see film clips.
So, yeah you can direct your students here to take a look at a particular collection,
a particular clip et cetera.
But yeah that's what I wanted to share.
And please, if you have any questions Also I just wanted to say we have thrown a
lot of resources at you today, and hopefully you will find some things that you can bring
in to your teaching of this topic.
I know sometimes the pacing for World War One means that we can't include everything but
hopefully we will leave you with new tools and ideas and primary sources that you can
share with your students.
And I think there's a way both of these resources can work together, whether it is
using DocsTeach to take a closer look at primary sources that students have discovered in the
app or having students utilize the app as introduction to a variety of topics or to
conduct their own research on World War One, there's a lot of ways these two tools can
have some interplay together.
So thank you so much for joining us this even evening.
We appreciate you taking the time to chat with us and learn about these resources.
Yes, thank you so much again for coming in and viewing what we have.
It is a lot of amazing stuff.
And wanted to just reinforce it's all free, it's in the public domain, so, it is really
here for you to use in any way that you can.
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