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Audio-Visual Primary Sources

Course
Closing [:31]
In this course, Tom Bober discussed how and why you should include film and audio when analyzing primary sources with students, provided strategies to consider when using audio-visual primary sources in your classroom, and illustrated how audio-visual primary sources allow historical eras to come to life in the classroom.
Integrating specific strategies into your teaching to capitalize on the unique elements of story, emotion, and movement in audio visual primary sources can take your students from passive viewers and listeners to active learners. Engage historians who are performing layered analysis to connect to and learn from these rich resources.

Additional Resources

Primary Source Audio Visual Resources
Primary Sources Used in This Workshop
Teaching with AV Sources.

About the Author

Tom Bober

Tom Bober is a school librarian, 2018 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress, and author of the books Elementary Educator's Guide to Primary Sources: Strategies for Teaching and Building News Literacy: Lessons for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Elementary and Middle Schools. He is a Digital Public Library of America Community Rep, a member of the Teachers Advisory Board for the National Portrait Gallery, and a co-chair of the Education Advisory Committee of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Tom writes about student learning on AASL's Knowledge Quest blog and publications such as School Library Connection and American Libraries and has given workshops and spoken across the country. His foundation is built on over twenty years in public education, with six years as an elementary classroom teacher, seven years as a building and district instructional technology specialist, and over eight years in school libraries. Find him at https://tombober.com/ and on Twitter @CaptainLibrary.

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Bober, Tom. "Audio-Visual Primary Sources. Closing [:31]." School Library Connection, ABC-CLIO, January 2018, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Course/2123895?learningModuleId=2123886&topicCenterId=2247903.

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