Learning Technology Center to host Presidential Timeline Teacher Institute - June 24th, 2009

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The Learning Technology Center is proud to host the Presidential Timeline Teacher Institute July 9th-12th. Twenty-five teachers, invited from around the country, will study presidential decision-making and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and how to teach these subjects using primary source documents. The Institute is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Education.

Ken Tothero, Project Manager for the Presidential Timeline, is excited about the Institute’s slate of eminent instructors. Rebecca Dean, Chair of the Political Science Department of the University of Texas at Arlington and an expert on presidential decision-making, will cover the 1965 Voting Rights Act and presidential decision-making. Mary Knill, Director of Digital Initiatives for the National Archives will discuss digital archives. Cinthia Salinas, of this College’s Department of Curriculum & Instruction will examine historical reasoning and the use of primary source materials in Social Science Education. Finally, Paul Resta, LTC Director and Curriculum & Instruction professor, will cover online teaching tools and creating presentations with primary source materials.

Also attending the Institute is Barbara Ashcroft, the Assistant Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Institute will be held at both the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and the LTC. Participants will stay at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. For more information about the Presidential Timeline Teacher Institute contact Ken Tothero.

—Laurie Caldwell, LTC Communications Coordinator