Website Spotlight: Summer of Love

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html

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:

Introduction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/filmmore/fd.html

Take the Online Poll: Would You Have Gone to San Francisco?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/poll.html

Looking Back
Read through each of these short pieces, beginning with Sandi Stein and ending with Mary Kasper.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/back_01.html

Underground News
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/oracle.html

The Year of the Hippie
Work through the dates that intrigue you.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/timeline.html

Teacher's Guide
Which one of these questions would you give as an assignment to your classmates?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/tguide/index.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/Vietnam

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