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California Heritage: "United Farm Workers' Union"
This month's
featured resource
was created by the California Heritage Project, with support
from the Interactive University.
It's grape season again. Do your students know about the pivotal point in history that connects grapes to the labor movement? The California Heritage Project provides valuable resources that will help your students explore questions such as: What is the conflict between growers and farm workers? What can we learn about the lives of farm workers by looking at geography? Why and how did the UFW begin, and what did it do? Complete with pictures, news articles, curricular materials, etc. the California Heritage Project helps students do primary research while learning in a historical context.
Browse the IU's Digital Learning Materials
where you will find a wide spectrum of lesson plans developed over the
past five years by Internet Learning Community
Projects.
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During the first week of October, at the 2002 Educause Conference in Atlanta, members of the IU team gave a presentation about Interactive University Project work to provide digitized UC Berkeley resources from diverse academic disciplines, as well as from campus collections in libraries and museums. The IU is working to create and sustain a portal-like Internet place where these learning materials will be available to the public. In a presentation entitled Creating Learning Objects from Research Content to Open the University, the team explained the IU plan to create an online "teacher's box" where learners from the K-12 community can locate, save and assemble discrete digital learning objects into larger lesson components and plans. IU Director David Greenbaum, along with IU Technology Architect Raymond Yee, and Manager of New Program Development Chris Ashley, spoke on Wednesday, October 2nd to an interested audience. The IU team used examples and experiences from recent work to present the technology and discuss the related challenges of developing an end-to-end process that will create an open networked environment where university and K-12 learners may access a wide variety of Berkeley materials and repositories.
. . Continue on to the IU
News November 2002 page to read about the conference.
The Interactive
University Project (IU) enables UC Berkeley to make its unmatched resources
of people and knowledge available on the Internet. We serve learners and
educators, targeting K-12 teachers, students, their families, and local
communities throughout the Bay Area and California.
| IU Future--Evolving Our Model |
 A
third phase of work is set to commence in Fall 2002. The goal is to open
UC Berkeley resources to K-12 teachers, students, and all learners, by
making them available on the Internet. A new
website explains and demonstrates some of the plans and ideas.
IU activities are coordinated by UC Berkeley's Information Systems and Technology.
Go to UC Berkeley's home page.
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