2014 VSTE Annual Conference

This session highlight the ways in which combining 21st century learning skills with modern technology can breathe life into manuscripts for today's student. We will look at several collections from the VHS manuscript holdings, and demonstrate how primary source analysis and focused inquiry lead to effective learning. We will examine how these documents are used both within the physical museum, and also how the lesson is adapted and delivered for HistoryConnects, the distance learning initiative from the Virginia Historical Society. Participants will work with unique, mostly unknown sources and 21st century tools, including social media, to create modern, relevant lessons ideas for today's student. Primary sources from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries will be used.