K12 Web Archiving Project

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K-12 Web Archiving Project

• NDIIPP Partner Meeting
• July 10, 2008

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About the Pilot Project

• Sponsors
• Internet Archive
• CDL -- Calisphere
• LC NDIIPP and TPS
• Modest Objectives
• Create time capsules of Web content from a
  kids perspective
• Raise awareness of transitory nature of Web
  content
• See what happens

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Guidelines

• Use IAs Archive-It service
• Target geographically diverse schools
• Begin and end during school year
• Let schools decide on organization and selection
  of sites
• Ask for students to explain choices of sites

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Teaching with Primary Sources

• 20 partners across 8 states
• Focus on using the Librarys historical
  collections of primary sources to spark inquiry
• Help students to understand the changing nature
  of primary sources in a digital world
• Think critically about how primary sources define
  an era

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The Project..

• Archive-It collections
• Miramonte HS Blog

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Feedback

• Do you think your web site collection as a whole
  does a good job of representing your generation?
• We were allowed to archive whatever we wanted to
  and we chose a wide variety of things.
• It gives little snapshots. Youth culture is so
  diverse that trying to say this collection
  represents teenagers is really very ignorant.

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Feedback

• What was the main thing you learned?
• I learned that websites grow and change in ways
  you wouldnt notice at first.
• I learned how to teach people around me by
  educating them with what inspires my life daily.
• I learned that our culture is based a lot on
  consumerism.

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Feedback

• What most surprised/interested you about this
  project?
• I was surprised at how many news and politics
  websites high school students look at.
• I enjoyed looking for sites as well as seeing
  everyones choices and how they reflected their
  lives and personalities.

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Student Lessons Learned

• Understanding both the permanence and
  non-permanence of web content
• Importance of primary sources
• Students from diverse areas share many
  commonalities
• Common interests despite cultural and geographic
  diversity

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Questions for the NDIIPP Partners

• Does this seem like a useful effort to continue?
• What would make this more interesting/useful?
• Are there other kinds of audiences we should be
  targeting for similar efforts?