Digital Storytelling With Primary Sources
What is a Primary Source? A Primary Source is something that was created in the time under study. A primary source is an original work written by someone who witnessed or wrote close to an event.
What is a Primary Source? Consider these two pictures of Ellis Island. We’re studying turn of the 20th Century immigration. Does either meet the definition of a Primary Source? Why or why not?
What image sources do you use? Search the web with a search engine Google Images Yahoo Pictures Digital camera Scanner Library of Congress photographic collections
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov (Main page) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html (American Memory Project) http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html (Prints and Photographs Collection) http://pslearning.org/ (Teaching with Primary Sources)
Picture credits slide three Library of Congress, American Memory Project Immigrant Landing Station, N.Y. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a38144))+@field(COLLID+cph)) Library of Congress, American Memory Project Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(NY1252))