Register Now for a Free Online Workshop – Teaching with Primary Sources: Sound Recordings as Primary Sources

When you think about primary sources, what are some of the first things that come to mind? Historical documents? Old photographs? Diaries?  How about…sound recordings?

Join Vermont Folklife Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 3:30 – 5:30 pm EST for an online professional learning workshop for educators and learn how to access, engage with, and teach from ethnographic and oral history sound recordings and more from the Vermont Folklife Archive.

VT Folklife is in the third year of a project funded by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program focused on making ethnographic and oral history archives accessible to classroom teachers.

As part of this project this workshop will:

• Introduce learning resources and curriculum developed with our project partners at Local Learning, the national network for folk arts in education
• Offer strategies to introduce students to the value and function of archives and archival research
• Provide a brief overview of ethnographic and oral history methodologies to better understand the unique nature of these primary sources
• Invite participants to become involved in our efforts to make our archival collections more accessible and useful to educators

This workshop is FREE thanks to generous funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program.