Week 8

Week 8: Archive Grid

I learned that Sitting Bull’s name was actually Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan and that he was the leader of the Hunpapa Sioux.  That was new to me. 

I searched ‘Silence Dogood’ hoping to find the originals letters but found nothing.  Then I searched ‘Benjamin Franklin letters’ and got several hits. When I clicked on the first one, it said ‘this page does not exist or has been renamed.’  I tried several other hits and most said ‘contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.  This would be great for social study classes and history buffs.

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It was fun to see pictures of items that Paul Revere made as a silversmith.  The details on the tea urn and spoon were beautiful. There were also covered bowls, more urns, a sugar bowl and cover, all exquisitely made. 

‘Sioux’ brought up pictures of Native American clothing, pipes, and many pictures of NA life.

I was disappointed that ‘Harvey Dunn’ brought no results but neither did ‘Terry Redlin’.  ‘Van Gogh’  brought up 48 pictures of his paintings.  The pictures were of good quality.

Since we do not offer art classes at our school, this would be a way to explore art and expose our rural students to the world of art.

It was nice that the slide show of the images looped.  It was easy to move the images around and compare them.  I didn’t try the Web page feature but it looked easy to use.

Common Core:  8.SL.5 Integrates multimedia and visual display into presentations… For math, students could look at pieces of art and find mathematical images within them such as circles, squares, parabolas.  They could also import the images into a graphing calculator and find the equations of the parabola.