Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Website Spotlight: Alamo
Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/
Introductory Note:
Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.
In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.
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I ask the students to work through the following links:
Survivor Stories
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/sfeature/sf_survivors.html
The Navarro Family
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/sfeature/sf_family.html
The Republic of Texas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/sfeature/sf_republic.html
Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/timeline/index.html
I always love the timelines in these American Experience websites. This particular one is very detailed, containing a well-annotated explanation of each date.
Stephen Austin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_austin.html
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_santaanna.html
Davy Crockett
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_crockett.html
Jim Bowie
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_bowie.html
William Travis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_travis.html
Sam Houston .
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_houston.html
Texas Annexation and Statehood
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/e_annex.html
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Concluding Note:
I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.
1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Expansion
2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT
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