|| TPS Connect ||

TPS-Colorado announces the official launch of a new collaborative website called TPS Connect, an online community built for collaboration and sustained interaction among advocates of Teaching with Primary Sources.  TPS Connect allows members to:

• Create social groups among your district, school, discipline, or friends
• Invite friends and colleagues
• Send private messages and make wall comments
• Share photos and resources
• Access our growing database of annotated resource sets
• Gain user experience points to win great prizes

The community will continue to evolve through the incorporation of powerful third-party applications.  New social networking and media applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and many more in the future, will allow TPS Connect users to seamlessly integrate their favorite means of staying connected.

TPS Connect will also become the new site to register for TPS workshops and order primary sources. Just login with your old account info and select Courses on the left user menu.

We need YOU for this community to thrive, so we challenge you to invent or discover new ways to improve teaching through collaborating and staying connected with colleagues who share an understanding of the indisputable power of primary sources. Join the community and get connected!

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|| PSI21 Wiki ||

TPS - Colorado offers new supplemental wiki

The Primary Sources, Inquiry & 21st Century Learning (PSI21) Wiki is a resource repository for upcoming TPS professional development opportunities for K-12 educators. The goal is to promote the use of primary and other digital resources to support inquiry-based learning, the development of existing and emerging literacies, and 21st century learning standards. 

The wiki includes:

• Professional Development Options
• Classroom Resources
• The Top Technology Tools for Teaching with Primary Sources
• Stripling Inquiry Model

|| Visit the PSI21 Wiki ||

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|| Teaching with Primary Sources: Inquiry & 21st Century Learning ||

New Teaching with Primary Sources: Inquiry & 21st Century Learning (PSI21) Course

This is an advanced course that builds off the TPS Foundations course that many have already taken. PSI21 offers participants advanced strategies to create, teach, and evaluate inquiry-based learning experiences that integrate 21st century learning skills and primary sources.

|| Register for a Fall PSI21 Course ||

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|| Fall 2009 Workshops ||

Teaching with Primary Sources: Foundations:
Prerequisite: None

• Face-to-face Sep. 19 and Sep. 26
• Online Sep. 14 - Oct. 16

Teaching with Primary Sources: Inquiry & 21st Century Learning:
Prerequisite: Foundations

• Face-to-face Oct. 21 and Nov. 4
• Online Oct. 21 - Nov. 20

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|| Sign up at TPS Connect to register for a course ||

|| Call TPS - Colorado at (303)352-4945 with any questions ||

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|| TPS Colloquium ||

New two-day in-depth seminar on using primary sources to promote inquiry and deepen understanding

Participate in a two-day immersion on inquiry learning using subject matter experts, primary sources, electronic newspapers, and documentaries to promote analysis, critical thinking, investigation, and hypothesizing as they relate to a chosen topic of study, such as Westward Expansion or the Emancipation Proclamation.

If you would like to discuss the possibility of hosting or participating in a TPS Colloquium, please call or email TPS - Colorado using the contact info at the bottom of this newsletter.

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|| Regional Program ||

Teaching with Primary Sources - Western Region

The TPS Western Region has extended to 14 states: Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.

Grant funding is available to reach out to existing educational institutions or groups that have the ability to provide TPS training and support K-16 educators in their areas.  To date, major initiatives are underway in Alaska, Arizona, and Utah.  Other states within the western region are exploring TPS opportunities.

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|| Picturing America Project ||

TPS - Colorado is partnering with the Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Council on the Arts, Colorado Humanities, Colorado State Library, and History Colorado  to offer workshops throughout the state on using Picturing America and other Colorado instructional resources—including primary sources from the Library of Congress—to enhance the teaching of Colorado history.

"Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art."

September 18, 2009	Human Service Bldg, Steamboat Springs
September 21, 2009	Museum of the West, Grand Junction
October 2, 2009	Durango Public Library, Durango
October 7, 2009	Ft. Vasquez, Platteville
October 14, 2009	Belmar Library, Lakewood
October 15, 2009	Koshare Indian Museum, La Junta
October 21, 2009	Robert Hoag Rawlings Library, Pueblo
October 23, 2009	Tesla Educational Center,Colorado Springs
October 26, 2009	Colorado History Museum, Denver

|| View the Picturing America Flyer (.pdf) ||

To register, contact Colorado Humanities - http://www.coloradohumanities.org

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