Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. In this 2.5-day workshop, participants will focus on digital storytelling and oral history interviewing skills. Participants receive $500 in digital recording and computer equipment along with hands-on training. Current classroom teachers, librarians, administrators, instructors, and professors in Oklahoma are all eligible to participate.

Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. In this 2.5-day workshop, participants will focus on digital storytelling and oral history interviewing skills. Participants receive $500 in digital recording and computer equipment along with hands-on training. Current classroom teachers, librarians, administrators, instructors, and professors in Oklahoma are all eligible to participate.

The workshop features Dr. Harvey Klehr of Emory University as the keynote speaker and offers sessions on television, toys, fashion, music, art, and literature of the Cold War era.

The World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. is hosting its annual Summer Institute on International Affairs for High School Educators on The U.S. and the World. Topics will include The New Asia, Globalization and the Economy, Religion and Foreign Policy, Future Conflicts, U.S. Foreign Policy Directions, and more topics to be later announced.

The conference features access to international experts, exciting and interactive seminars, lesson plan sessions, on-site sessions at the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, Foreign Embassies, and others (with optional Graduate School Credit through Projects in Education and the Catholic University of America), a national network of teachers and free materials for the classroom.

This workshop "will focus on changing transportation and technology in urban America and how these forces shape modern cities and their economies. Guest speakers will include Mark Tebeau, Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and a variety of curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society."

"Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time—people whose ideas continue to shape how we live. Jack Fruchtman, author of Atlantic Cousins, examines how Franklin and his circle of friends shaped a remarkable period in history. A book signing will follow the program."

"This workshop will introduce educators to the resources available at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Learn how to schedule a tour, how to prepare your class for their visit and methods for making the most of your school trip to the Museum. In addition, find out how to access digital resources from the Library collections, how to utilize the Library for research and other opportunities for professional development and classroom activities available through the ALPLM Education Department. The session will include a tour of the Museum."

"With a presidential election just around the corner, this workshop will focus on how presidents are packaged according to the most winnable personality, prepared in minute detail for every public appearance, and promoted as viable candidates and chief executive. Educators will look at examples and methods of how presidential image has been portrayed in the public sphere from George W. to George W. The evolution of presidential campaigns will be examined by comparing and contrasting early, short, and inexpensively-run campaigns to the grueling more than year-long marathons and multi-million dollar campaigns of the present. Educators will also examine the art of campaign buttons, banners, and broadsides of the past to the fire-side chats of FDR, the television ads, sound bites, and Internet of today."

"An NCHE team will explore the topic of the 19th Century at this Teaching American History colloquium."

"An NCHE team will explore the topic of The Gilded Age and Reform Era at this Teaching American History colloquium."