Ask What Your Country Can Do For You: Free Government Web Sites and the SOLs is a workshop for teachers of U.S. History and Government, based on the 11th and 12th grade Virginia Standards of Learning. The program consists of five hours of instruction, demonstration and hands-on exercises dealing with educational material available for free on government (and a few government-related) web sites.
This web site provides a complete outline of the program along with hands-on exercises, a PowerPoint introduction and an annotated links page for the web sites. We encourage everyone to use this material in whole or in part; please credit the original presenters (see below).
SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAM
The program begins with a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the FDLP program, presenters and the goals for the day. This is followed by detailed demonstration of each web site. After each site, participants are given a few search exercises for practice. After each group of sites, more hands-on searching is done in the form of the more complicated ìquizî exercises.
WORKSHOP
- Home
- PowerPoint intro
- Sites about U.S. Government
- Sites about U.S. History
- Links page
- Practice Exercises
- Quiz Exercises
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CONTACT
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The workshop was first presented on July
26, 2003 and was sponsored by the Virginia Library Association; presenters
were Keith Weimer, Government Information Librarian at the University
of Richmond and Chair of the Public Documents Forum of the Virginia Library
Association; and Maryke Huyding Barber, Government Documents Coordinator
at Hollins University's Wyndham Robertson Library.
Participants earned re-certification credit.
Sponsored by the Public Documents Forum of the Virginia Library Association