Lesson 8

Basic Discovery Exercise Part 1 - ArchiveGrid

1. When I searched for "Sitting Bull autograph card" I learned that Sitting Bull was a Hunpapa Sioux leader who, among many other things, led the Sioux & Cheyenne against the 7th cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn.  After that, he led the tribe to Canada to live until the surrender.  After capture, he toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and was killed resisting arrest for doing the ritual Ghost Dance. 
Much of this I already knew, but it was an interesting article.

2. I decided to search "Hand County South Dakota". There was 1 result from the Farm Security Administration Photographs 1936-1942.  This is a collection of 482 photographs depicting the negative effects of the Dust Bowl, Great Depression and farm mechanization as well as mobilization efforts for World War II.  This was a link to digital versions of the pictures.  I looked through several of the pictures and they were very interesting.  A look at a time gone by.

Basic Discovery Exercise Part 2 - CAMIO

I had an interesting experience trying to do this part of the assignment.  I am a teacher, so I tried to access the CAMIO database at school. Oddly enough, it was blocked by our Firewall.  So, I appealed to have the category changed.  This took a couple days, but then I was able to go to it.  Then when I tried to blog about it, our school has Blogger blocked - so I had to write down my thoughts and then post at home.  Technology has an interesting trail at a public school. :)

1. When I searched for Paul Revere, there were many silver items that he created - teaspoon, sugar bowl, salver, bowl, teapot, coffee urn... and there were paintings of him, stories & poetry written about him, and work that his son did.

2. When I searched "Sioux", again there were many results of objects such as shirts, gauntlets, drawings, pipe bowls, dolls, pouches...  All very beautiful and interesting.

3. I searched several artists, DaVinci, Remington, and Monet.  It was very interesting to see the works of these artists that are held in American museums.

4. I am not sure how I would use this resource in my science classes, but I can see how it would be a valuable resource for an art class or social studies class where one could look at different cultures or different time periods.

5. I thought the "add to favorites" feature was easy to use and I really liked the Compare feature where you could get a side by side look at different works to be very interesting.  I also thought the Slideshow was a very cool feature.