1. Digital Storytelling
With Primary Sources

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov (Main page)
(American Memory Project)
(Prints and Photographs Collection)
(Teaching with Primary Sources)

6. Picture credits slide three
Library of Congress, American Memory Project
Immigrant Landing Station, N.Y.
Library of Congress, American Memory Project
Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY