The biggest take away I got from this class was how much information can accurately be deduced from a collection of primary resources.\u00a0 It was awesome to retell key portions of Mr. Stohr’s life with the few sources that we had access to.\u00a0 I was left wondering if someone could do that with what I’ve collected throughout my life.\u00a0 Or, if I could find similar artifacts of my grandparent’s or great-grandparent’s that could help me understand their histories better.\u00a0 What portions of our lives\u00a0will be important enough to make it onto a site like ancestery.com to help our\u00a0decedents learn who we are?<\/p>\n
On that note, what will historians do in the future?\u00a0 The world is going digital and that is going to completely alter how the past is researched and explored.\u00a0 Online, everyone has their own opinion about everything.\u00a0 How do you determine which opinions\/recounts are worth further study or comparison?\u00a0 What will be a be considered a primary source if electric documents can be altered or rewritten without indication?\u00a0 What features of an electronic document would be analyzed?\u00a0 It can’t be examined like the nuisances of a written letter or the material used to create.\u00a0 Will future historian give up on searching though the ancient materials in favor of the easy access of what can be found on the internet?<\/p>\n
I have so many questions.<\/p>\n
I did enjoy this weeks video pertaining to show and tell.\u00a0 It never occurred to me that this simple activity could become a competition between the haves and have-nots.\u00a0 I think it’s a great idea to have theme-oriented show and tell.\u00a0 It caps the options and it gives students, who do not know what to bring, a starting point.\u00a0 It’s also a good activity to help students learn to present in front of a group of people.\u00a0 The outline that the student’s used gave helped them to present the important information without the stories lasting forever.\u00a0 I remember one show and tell in particular.\u00a0 I believe it was 4th grade and I had just come home (Michigan) from a vacation to see me grandparents in Richmond.\u00a0 While in Richmond, I saw this “gianormous” bee the size of my thumb.\u00a0 A girl in my class disputed my claim that it was a bee, because there was no such thing as bees that size. Therefore, I was lying about all of it.\u00a0 \u00a0Many years later, I realize we were both right.\u00a0 It was not a massively large bee.\u00a0 But, I did see something.\u00a0 It was a hornet and the size of my thumb, if not bigger at the time.<\/p>\n
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