Webcasts

Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee partners with the MTSU Instructional Technology Support Center to produce Webcasts on various topics for teacher professional development. Here is a listing of all our collaborative Webcasts:

Progressive Era - COMING SOON

• Webcast title: "Exploring the Progressive Era with the Library of Congress"
• Date of broadcast: October 27, 2011
• Image index

 

Maps

• Webcast title: "Teaching with Maps from the Library of Congress"
• Date of broadcast: April 7, 2011
• Image index

 

Teachers' Experiences (Summer Institute 2010)

• Guest presenters: Clifton Kaiser (Battleground Academy, Franklin) and Perry Louden, Jr. (Rockvale Middle School, Rutherford County)
• Webcast title: "Using Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources: Teachers' Experiences"
• Date of filming: February 23, 2011
• Image index

 

Environmental Science

• Webcast title: "Teaching Environmental Science with the Library of Congress"
• Date of broadcast: November 18, 2010
• Image index

 

Political Cartoons

• Webcast title: "Teaching with Political Cartoons from the Library of Congress"
• Date of broadcast: September 30, 2010
• Image index

 

Prelude to the Civil War in Tennessee

• Webcast title: "Teaching with Primary Sources: Prelude to the Civil War in Tennessee"
• Date of broadcast: March 18, 2010
• Image index

 

Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee

• Webcast title: "Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources: Focus on the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee"
• Date of broadcast: February 4, 2010
• Primary Source Set

 

Math, Technology and Engineering

• Webcast title: "Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources: Focus on Math, Technology and Engineering"
• Date of broadcast: October 1, 2009
• STEM links handout

 

Folk Songs from the Dust Bowl

• Guest presenter: Dr. Mark A. Jackson, MTSU Department of English
• Webcast title: "Teaching with American Folk Music: Library of Congress Song Recordings as Primary Sources in the Classroom"
• Date of broadcast: March 17, 2009
• Image index

 

Age of Jackson

• Webcast title: "Engaged, Empowered and Excited: Teaching with Primary Sources"
• Date of broadcast: December 4, 2008
• Image index

 

From the links above, you will be taken to a Web page where you can log in as an educator to receive professional development credit. Logging in this way will also lead you to any handouts and PowerPoint print-outs available with each individual Webcast. You will be provided with a printable certificate after viewing the Webcast and completing a brief evaluation form.

Webcasts can also be viewed live. Cable and satellite viewers in the middle Tennessee viewing area can watch the programs on their televisions; please see a table of viewing information for each county here. Live viewers can call in with questions to be answered on air at 1-866-904-8352 (local viewers may call 615-896-9425). Educators and the interested public are also encouraged to be part of our live studio audience at MTSU; call 615-898-2737, email vmoxley@mtsu.edu, or click on the previous link for more information.

All Webcasts include live Web site views of primary sources and lesson plans from this site and from the Library of Congress Web site, with tips on navigation and utilization. If you have a suggestion for a topic that we should cover in a future Webcast, please email us (kduke@mtsu.edu or sgraham@mtsu.edu), and we'll be happy to consider your suggestion!