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  2020

  HIST 5241 Northeastern Prompt

  Prompt given to partner class HIST 5241 of Northeastern University, Spring 2020, instructor Victoria Cain
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  2020-07-16

  Training Modules for The Covid-19 Oral History Project

  This training module was designed for individuals who want to participate in conducting oral histories for The Covid-19 Oral History Project and JOTPY.
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Six: Oral Histories Readings

  Readings to accompany Teaching Module Six.
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Six: Oral Histories

  JOTPY Teaching Module Six for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions for Module Six: How has oral history brought to light the stories of groups whose history might otherwise have been hidden? How has the practice empowered individuals and been employed for advocacy? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using oral histories?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Five: Rapid Response Collecting Readings

  Readings to accompany Teaching Module Five
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Five: Rapid Response Collecting

  JOTPY Teaching Module Five for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions for Module Five: What is Rapid Response Collecting (RRC)? What are the best practices of RRC, and why is it an important type of collecting? What are the challenges of RRC?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Four: Archival Silences Readings

  Readings to accompany Teaching Module Four.
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Four: Archival Silences

  JOTPY Teaching Module Four for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions for Module Four: Whose voices are absent from traditional and digital archives? How does an archive’s collecting policy influence what is understood to be the historical record?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Three: Civic Purposes of Archives Readings

  Reading to accompany Teaching Module Three.
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Three: Civic Purposes of Archives

  JOTPY Teaching Module Three for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions for Module Three: How does record-keeping matter in the context of a democratic government? Is archival practice neutral? Who controls the records kept in archives, and who controls access to these archives? What 21st century events may pose a challenge to future historians because of the way records of these events have been collected?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Two: Digital Archives Readings

  Readings that accompany Teaching Module Two
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Two: Digital Archives

  JOTPY Teaching Module Two for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions for Module Two: How does the digital realm change the nature of archives? Who are the stakeholders in a digital archive? How are privacy and access concerns balanced by digital archivists? What are the biggest challenges to archival work in the 21st century? How is metadata active interpretation?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module One: Archives 101 Readings

  Readings that accompany Teaching Module One
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module One: Archives 101

  JOTPY Teaching Module One for classroom teachers and college instructors. Essential Questions of Module 1: WHAT IS AN ARCHIVE? What does an archivist do, and what complications may arise in doing these jobs successfully? How does record-keeping matter in the context of a democratic government? Who are the stakeholders in an archive, and how are their competing needs addressed?
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  2020-07-18

  JOTPY Teaching Module Introduction

  Overview of the JOTPY teaching modules.
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  2020-04-11

  Customers at Mahoney's Garden Center in Winchester, MA observe physical distancing while waiting to pick up compost, mulch, and other garden supplies.

  Confined to their homes, residents of Greater Boston have been seeking solace in their own space by gardening more than ever. The town of Brookline began to pick up yard waste weeks earlier than it usually does as a result of popular demand, garden centers across the city are now delivering supplies and plants to customers, and at Mahoney's a popular garden center in the Boston subrub of Winchester, the line to pick up supplies was hundreds of feet long. Yet the space still felt empty, as pickups were carefully scheduled and masked customers observed physical distancing.