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Posted by: Anne Savage
The @TeachingLC Twitter feed for K-12 educators shares rich primary sources and teaching materials every school day. Learn about the #LCReveal, where a primary source is deconstructed and tweeted one section a day for a weeklong, classroom-ready activity.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The Library's original Web site for public access to legislative data, THOMAS.gov, was launched in 1995, making it almost 19 years old! Your students may find it hard to believe that the Internet even existed that long ago. To update, and soon replace, this aging system, the Library of Congress launched beta.Congress.gov in the fall of 2012.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
If you’re attending the National Council of Teachers of English conference from November 21-24 in Boston, MA stop by to see us!
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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Items that lived in American Memory have either moved or will move soon. Meanwhile, starting November 19, the assets in myLOC.gov will be moving to loc.gov, while myLOC.gov's myCollection will no longer be offered.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
It is a librarian’s dream to be in the most fabulous library in the world, spending every day just wallowing in the collections, meeting experts, and pursuing scholarly interests. My library dream has been fulfilled by being selected as the Library of Congress Teacher in Residence for the 2013-14 year.
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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
This month teachers have two new opportunities to join the discussion about great books and other primary sources.
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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Sharing ideas is a critical part of all great teaching, and now the Library of Congress has a new tool for exchanging ideas with the nation’s K-12 teachers: @TeachingLC, its new Twitter feed for educators.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
But writing poetry—writing a stream of words, with letters of various sizes, with exclamation points and question marks—allows me to capture my emotions better than neatly composed prose does.
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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The hour-long program will start with an analysis of a primary source related to Constitution Day and participants will be invited to discuss instructional strategies that can be used with primary sources. In addition, education specialists will highlight resources related to Constitution Day for teachers from the Library’s vast online collections.
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