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• Hispanic Politics in Colorado
• Hispanic Labor in Colorado
• Hispanic Industry in Colorado
• Hispanic Civil Rights in Colorado
• Hispanic Culture and Tradition in Colorado

During the February workshop, participants were first given a historical context to the workshop by Bill Convery, State Historian for the Colorado Historical Society. He talked about the Spanish involvement in the area of the United States before it was a country, up to the present day.

The workshop then moved onto Michelle Pearson and Cindy Stout’s presentation on Annotated Resource Sets, and their importance in creating lesson plans for use in the classroom.  Click here to view some of the resources from the Denver Public Library which the pair used. Some of the possible topics were:

• Spanish Exploration and First Settlers
• Fur Trade
• Cowboys
• Ranching, Farming, Homesteading
• Mining
• Boom and Bust
• Railroads

A neat part of the workshop was when History Colorado introduced artifacts from their collection in the form of a “Hispanic Grandmother’s Trunk.” These were artifacts from the turn of the century collected by History Colorado.  The artifacts and trunks are intended to be used as classroom teaching materials.  View an example here. You can also view some of the objects presented at our workshop here.  These were some very cool resources!

For the June workshop, an emphasis was placed on learning to search the Library of Congress’ webpage, inquiry, and technology.  We also debuted our now ubiquitous QR code activity. It was our inaugural attempt, where we used two different maps featuring an Hispanic-influence. One, a map of the Sante Fe Route, one of the first maps depicting a surveyed map of a trail to the West. The second map, from 1888, shows the southwestern part of the United States around that time period, and the Sante Fe Route. It’s fascinating to see the difference between the two, and what locations and other things that were deemed important enough to include on the map. From the Library of Congress’ description:

“(A) map of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stations, Indian reservations, state boundaries, and the railroad network emphasizing the main line. Includes railroad names.”

We also had two special guests for this workshop. Gregorio Alcaro and Trini H. Gonzalez, the co-founders of Auraria Casa Mayan Heritage. They talked about what their organization, and how their vision

…aspires to increase community awareness of Auraria’s rich cultural heritage and the contributions that were made by the area’s early Latino population, as well as, other ethnic groups that resided and contributed to this community.

The Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library commissioned four videos in conjunction with these two workshops. These videos were produced by students from the Department of Technical Communication & Media Production at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and was directed by Professor Bob Amend. Using resources from the Library of Congress, these videos explore the topics of Hispanic contributions to the history of Colorado. They can be viewed at The Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library’s webpage.

We, along with all the participants, were very pleased with the success of these two workshops. We look forward to working with all of our collaborators again in the future to explore other important topics in Colorado history.

Additional Information:

• Our workshop received attention from the press!  Read the article in The Denver Post talking about the February workshop.

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On July 28-29, we held a workshop for the Academy School District 20 in Colorado Springs.  In this workshop, titled: “Revolutionary Learning: Inquiry and Critical Thinking Using Primary Sources,” we investigated teaching with primary sources, 21st century skills, and inquiry through the lens of the Industrial Revolution.

Master teachers and frequent TPS collaborators Mary J. Johnson and Stevan Kalmon presented the very first fully-integrated dual inquiry model to the 28 participants.  This model focuses on the role of educators as both teacher and learner in the process of inquiry. Our model, created by Peggy O’neill-Jones, Cindy Stout, Linda Sargent Wood, Michelle Pearson, and Stevan Kalmon, is based off the work of Barbara Stripling’s Inquiry Model.

Participants were also given a tour of the Library of Congress homepage, American Memory, and the Teachers Page, all while having the focus of the two roles in mind.  Questions such as: “Which collections seem most useful to you as a Learner?” and “Which collections seem most useful to you as a Teacher?” were used to focus the participants’ inquiry.

The idea of reflection played an integral part throughout the workshop.  After each section of the workshop, the participants were asked to reflect on what they had learned by answering guided questions, such as:

• Which presentations and activities seem most useful to you as a Learner?
• Which presentations and activities seem most useful to you as a Teacher?
• Which lesson plans, themed resources, or primary source sets could be useful for you? How?
• What tools can help you implement teaching and learning with primary sources?
• What helpful advice can you find on the Help screen?

A highlight of the workshop was Mary Johnson’s QR code activity, where she demonstrated the power of QR codes in the classroom, but from the perspective of a learner, rather than a teacher.  You can view her Word doc here to see her lesson plan.

Stevan, who is the head of the Colorado-based Council on 21st Century Learning, then led the participants on a final reflection activity where they thought about how best to integrate and incorporate what they learned throughout the workshops into their classrooms.

Below are some pictures from the workshop, including the QR code activities with the participants engaged in scanning them and learning the possibilities for use in their own classrooms.  Stay tuned for a more in-depth article on QR codes soon!

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