Website Spotlight: Codetalkers

Website URL: http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/

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: Code Talkers
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/index.html

Languages: Living the Culture
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter2.html

Boarding Schools: Struggling with Cultural Repression
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter3.html

Code Talking: Intelligence and Bravery
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter4.html

Coming Home: Strength through Culture
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter5.html

Survival: Hard Times and Racism
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter6.html

Recognition: Medals and Praise
http://nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter7.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/World+War+II

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 

Website Spotlight: Japanese-American Internment

Website URL: http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/index.html

"A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution"
Smithsonian National Museum of American History

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 this entire exhibition:

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Here's how to maneuver your way through it:

Start with this URL:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html

~Click on "Begin the Story Experience" (select the Rich-Media Version)

~Each of the six pictures corresponds to the six major parts of the exhibition.

~Each of the six major parts of the exhibition is sub-divided into topics.

~Within each topic, click on the respective picture to take you to that section. Then use the horizontal scroll bar to move through the exhibit materials.

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Part One: Immigration

1. Issei: First Generation
2. Hawaii
3. U.S. Mainland
4. Legalizing Racism

Part Two: Removal

1. Crisis: Pearl Harbor
2. Constitution and the Executive Order
3. Process
4. Moving Out
5. First Stop: Assembly Centers

Part Three: Internment

1. Permanent Camps
2. Conditions
3. Home==Barracks
4. Work
5. Community Activities
6. Arts and Culture

Part Four: Loyalty

1. The Questionnaire
2. Segregation Camp: Tule Lake
3. Expatriation and Repatriations
4. The Draft

Part Five: Service

1. 100th and 442nd
2. Soldier's Life
3. Military Intelligence and Translation
4. Honors and Awards
5. Ironies of Service

Part Six: Justice

1. Post-War
2. Court Cases
3. Formal Apologies and Redress
4. Repairing the Constitution
5. Japanese Americans Today

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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/World+War+II

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 

Website Spotlight: On Gold Mountain



Website URL: http://apa.si.edu/ongoldmountain/

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:

Galleries 1-4 (access each of them from the left sidebar)
http://apa.si.edu/ongoldmountain/

Gallery 1: Journey to Gold Mountain (San Francisco)

The China Trade
American Missionaries
People Left China to Escape War and Hard Times

Gallery 2: Chinese Laborers in the West

Early Immigrants Came During Gold Rush
Railroad Construction Employed Thousands

Gallery 3: Los Angeles Chinatown

Religion Was Central to Chinese Life
Apothecaries Were Essential for Good Health
Chinatown Was Mostly a Bachelor Society

Gallery 4: Angel Island

The Immigration Station Barracks Offered Little Comfort
Paper Sons Tried to Outsmart the Exclusion Laws

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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/Immigration

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 

Website Spotlight: Women in the Progessive Era



Website URL: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/home.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 my students to work their way through each of these brief essays presented by the National Women's History Museum.

Introduction to Women in the Progressive Era
The Status of Women
Introduction to Clubwomen
The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC)
Causes: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Causes: The Woman Suffrage Movement
Causes: The Birth Control Movement
Settlement House Women
Hull House
The Children's Bureau
The National Consumers League
African American Women During the Progressive Era
African American Women Reform Efforts
Racial Divisions in the Progressive Era
Working Women: The Women's Trade Union League
Women and the Peace Movement
Women in World War I
Legacy of Women in the Progressive Era

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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/Progressive+Era

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 

Website Spotlight: Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Smithsonian)

Website URL: http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.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:

I. GUIDED TOUR [click at the top of the home screen]

Click "Next Room" to move through the Guided Tour:

Room 1 Journey of Discovery
Room 2 Recapturing the Past
Room 3 Going Viking
Room 4 Transforming Society
Room 5 Leaving Home
Room 6 Taking the North Atlantic
Room 7 Discovering North America
Room 8 Holding Fast at World's End

II. VIKING VOYAGE [click at the top of the home screen]

Select the stops from the map at the left of the screen.

Each stop may have addition tabs entitled Archeology, Sagas, History, Environment, and Genetics. Click on and read those.

Stop 1. Homeland: Who were the Vikings
Stop 2. Western Isles: Vikings: Raiders, Traders, or Settlers?
Stop 3. Iceland: Who Settled Iceland?
Stop 4. Greenland: What Happened to the Greenland Norse?
Stop 5. Markland and Helluland: Who Were the Skraelings?
Stop 6. Vinland: Where is Vinland?
Stop 7. Land of Legend: Why are Vikings Still Popular?

III. LEARNING CENTER [click at the top of the home screen]

Read about these:

Hnefatafl Board Game
Runes (Runic alphabet)

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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/Exploration

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