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Overview of the Assignment
Overview of the Assignment
Assignment 1: The Museum of the Student: Storytelling with your own primary sources
In the first of three assignments exploring exhibits as storytelling, students will form into small groups to conceptualize stories about the Western Connecticut State University student. They will identify digital materials in the University Archives and personal items from their own lives that help tell these stories. As students gather materials, they will examine and verify use requirements for archival materials. Students will also explore what it means to assign a level of Creative Commons permission to personal materials list for inclusion.
Open Educational Resource
To be used with local / university Archive, which often contain open collections.
The completed sample uses the WCSU Archives
Assignment Instructions and Rubric (for students)
Assignment Instructions and Rubric (for students)
History Story Assignment 1.docxCompleted Sample Assignments and Rubrics
Completed Sample Assignments and Rubrics
History Story Assignment 1 Part 1 Student Sample and Grading Rubric.docxHistory Story Assignment 1 Part 2 Student Sample and Grading Rubric.docxUse Notes for faculty
Use Notes for faculty
Assignment 1, which is 2 parts, takes place over 5 weeks.
Scaffolded Activities and Lessons
Goal: Students start to think about artifacts/objects and the stories that they tell.
- Have students meet in their groups, and share items in their backpacks, wallets, purses, etc. (noting that they should not share personal items, or items that they wish to keep private).
- Students discuss the stories behind the shared items in their groups.
- This activity can take place during a classroom session or via video tools if the course or session is online.
Goal: Students learn how to access library and archival materials.
- Meet with Archivist in the Archives.
Goal: Introduce students to the concepts of copyright, creative commons and public domain.
- Present definition and symbols of copyright, creative commons and public domain.
- Discussion about sharing of students' own work (ask if any students are artists, musicians, graphic designers, writers, etc and have students discuss how they approach sharing their intellectual property).
- Visit archive and library websites and show examples of use rights statements.
Header image: Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, “American soldiers at the siege of Yorktown,” 1781, via Wikimedia. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/uniforms-of-the-american-revolution/
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