Both last week at NECC and this week at ALA, I’ve seen presentations about the Library of Congress’s new professional development resources available as part of TPS Direct (Teaching Primary Sources Direct).  These are great resources to help us spread the word about the power of learning with primary sources and the amazing multi-modal resources available for free from the Library of Congress.

Audio recordings, sheet music, maps, photographs, engravings, and more are available.

Choose from:

• a series of modules about inquiry and/or primary source learning to quickly build your agenda for face-to-face professional development, downloadable as a PDF (but with HTML download coming soon so you can embed objects and ideas into your CMS system - whoo hoo!), or
• encourage staff to move through one of a series of self-paced professional development modules

Also check out LC’s Primary Source Sets, where library staff has gathered resources available for many popular curriculum units, including the Constitution, Civil War, immigration and assimilation, Jim Crow, Dust Bowl, Japanese-American internment during World War II, women’s suffrage, and Abraham Lincoln.

All this in addition to the already-fabulous American Memory project, with about 13 million objects that can be used for free.

Screen shot from http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/

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