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Showcase: MTN33 Mako Television Network
Author: Bill Kaiser School: Vista del Mar Middle District: Capistrano Unified County: Orange Duration: 00:02:05 Year: 2006 Description By adding a school-wide broadcasting capability, journalism and yearbook students will expand their roles bey...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.10 minutes
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Showcase: Understanding Egyptian Civilization
Author: Quynh Vu School: Elizabeth Dickerson Elementary District: Cypress Elementary County: Orange Duration: 00:02:16 Year: 2005 Description Students will do research on geographical, political, economic, religious, and social structures of ear...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.27 minutes
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Bring California History Into Your Classroom with Calisphere Images & an iPod
Calisphere Accolades The Bay Area California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP Region IV), University of California Irvine History Project (UCIHP) and University of California's Calisphere team worked in partnership to: =promote awareness and increa...
Added on 6/22/2008 by Kathleen Ferenz
Duration: 2.25 minutes
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Calisphere Treasure Hunt
Teachers work in trios and search Calisphere online archive for historical photographs. They are posting their findings on a wiki. (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) Workshop materials available at: www.ctap4.org/calisphere/index.htm
Added on 6/22/2008 by Kathleen Ferenz
Duration: 1.03 minutes
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Remember Your Mnemonics!
This media file was created for Elementary upper grade students and Middle school students for use in the area of Social Studies (Geography). An added hope is that it will help English Language Learners find a way to learn Geography in a way that might ...
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 2.95 minutes
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My Family: A New Kind of Show and Tell
We will be using this video file to show students how to incorporate family photos in a media presentation vs the old "Show and Tell" they are used to. This will be incorporated with the Social Studies curriculum when focusing on families.
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 45 seconds
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Podcasts


MrCromie's Sitar Podcast
A brief introduction to Hindustani classical music and the sitar
Added on 6/18/2008 by Michael Cromie
Duration: 10.35 minutes
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Another about Egypt
Dan talks about Egypt AGAIN!!!!
Added on 6/17/2008 by Dan Serrato
Duration: 31 seconds
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Medieval Europe Podcast
California History Standard 7.6.3
Added on 6/17/2008 by Jena Bradford
Duration: 3.35 minutes
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Remember Your Mnemonics!
This Podcast was created for Elementary upper grade students and Middle school students for use in the area of Social Studies (Geography). An added hope is that it will help English Language Learners find a way to learn Geography in a way that might hel...
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 2.95 minutes
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My Family: A New Kind of Show and Tell
We will be using this Podcast to show students how to incorporate family photos in a media presentation vs the old "Show and Tell" they are used to. This will be incorporated with the Social Studies curriculum when focusing on families.
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 45 seconds
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The Legacy of Rome
This podcast looks at the lasting legacies of the Roman Empire.
Added on 6/11/2008 by Pat Corwin
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Egypt
Mummies
Added on 6/10/2008 by daniel gutierrez
Duration: 15 seconds
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Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Added on 6/10/2008 by Daniel Schwartz
Duration: 1.43 minutes
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Ancient Egypt
Dan tells you about mummies and pyramids
Added on 6/10/2008 by Dan Serrato
Duration: 24 seconds
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Ancient Egypt
Explore the pyramids, pharaohs, and mummification from Ancient Egypt.
Added on 6/10/2008 by Dan Serrato
Duration: 1.48 minutes
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Alan November Keynote Speech
CTAP Region 1 is pleased to be able to post Alan November's Keynote address delivered at the LACOE 21st Century Skills Symposium. This was made possible with permission from Promethean. Alan November makes us think about how we can teach 21st Century skil...
Added on 4/30/2008 by Jeff Haugen
Duration: 1.15 hours
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The Great Depression Introductory Lecture
This lecture is an introduction to the great depression. It covers the causes and the effects of the great depression. It can be used in a 20th century U.S. History class when starting a discussion about this era.
Added on 4/21/2008 by Katie Tedford
Duration: 10.23 minutes
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Tips and Tricks Episode #1 Readability Statistics
This is a quick how to video demonstrating the classroom use for Word's readability statistics.
Added on 3/14/2008 by Brian Curwick
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Calisphere
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items β€” including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Personal Experiences
Title: Dwight, Yoshiko, Iku Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley The images in this topic were created by men, women, and youth during their incarceration in relocation camps. Artists expressed the inter...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Daily Life
Title: Manzanar, Calif.--Mealtime during early days after evacuation at Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. In housing, as well as at meal times, family life is observed. -- Photographer: Albers, Clem -- Manz...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Places
Title: Members of farm families board evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- Centerville, California. 5/9/42 Contributing Institution: The ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > People
Title: T/4 Taniguchi visits his wife and daughter at the Minidoka Relocation Center before returning to his unit in the Pacific. Taniguchi volunteered for the Army in 1942 when he and his family were at Tule Lake before it became a segregation center. He ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Native Americans
Title: [Phelan with native Americans] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. At the time of Spanish colonization in the late 1700s, California was home to more than 300,000 native people in more than 200 ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Hispanic Americans
Title: Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike. Creator/Contributor: International News Photos, Inc. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Hispanic explorers first reache...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Asian Americans
Title: [Unidentified children on bicycle.] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley People from Asia began migrating to California during the Gold Rush era. But a number of factors β€” including the 1882 Chi...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > African Americans
Title: Kathleen Cleaver and Panthers in Prosecution's office - 968 Creator/Contributor: Peter Breinig Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Although a relative few Afro-Latinos and other Africans came t...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > Struggles for Social Justice
Title: Huey Newton trial, second day July 16,1968 Creator/Contributor: Barney Peterson Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show how a range of groups during the 1960s and 70s chose to voic...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > The Free Speech Movement
Title: View of students seated in Sproul Plaza. Creator/Contributor: Free Speech Movement Date: Nov. 1964 Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement as ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > The Civil Rights Movement
Title: Martin Luther King Memorial Rally - 1968 Creator/Contributor: Joe Rosenthal Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show the Civil Rights movement through the lens of California news p...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Title: A serious moment for this 21-year-old Japanese-American, for he has just signed voluntary enlistment papers which puts him into a special combat team in the Army of the United States. Mitsuma Yokohari, a former resident of Red Bluff, California, wa...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Japanese American Internment
Title: Following evacuation orders, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets, was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the I AM AN AMERICAN sign on the store front on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. Ev...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Richmond Shipyards
Title: Workers at launching of C-4 Troop Transport Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The war in Europe had an enormous impact on American industry. Wartime factory work created new job opportunities,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Life on the Home Front
Title: Marie Kitazomi, formerly of the Tule Lake Center, is now employed as a secretary in Indianapolis. She is here shown purchasing a $100 war bond with money saved from her salary. The booth at which she made the purchase is under the auspices of the C...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Women in the Workforce
Title: Shipyard "Dress Code" poster Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show women at work during World War II, when the shortage of male workers opened new jobs to women. Photographs depi...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Building Bridges, Dams, Power Plants
Title: Marin Pier and Tower Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. California's booming population during the 1930s strained the existing infrastructure. These images depict the government-funded bridges,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > San Francisco General Strike
Title: Picket parade [5-10-1934?] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The images in this group capture moments from a pivotal episode in the rise of organized labor in the United States: San Franciscoβ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Help and a New Deal
Title: No work, no eat. Los Angeles, Calif. Creator/Contributor: Blanding Sloan Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show how the US government responded to the widespread unemployment of...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Hard Times
Title: Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike. Creator/Contributor: International News Photos, Inc. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show how the Gre...
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Dust Bowl Migration
Title: Home of Oklahoma drought refugees, February, 1936. Creator/Contributor: Lange, Dorothea Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show the devastation that drove the Dust Bowl refugees to...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > Popular Culture
Title: Mary Austin and Diego Rivera - Cuernevaca, c. 1932. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show some of the ways that people spent their free time during the early part of the 20th cen...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > Early Advertising
Title: San Francisco, Calif. (Sutter and Octavia St.)--Billboard advertisement at edge of Japanese quarter, photographed on morning when 600 persons of Japanese ancestry from this section were evacuated to an assembly center. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorot...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > Growing Ethnic Diversity
Title: Chinese Fish-man and his aquarium. S.E. cor. Jackson & Grant Ave. Feb. 1922. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images reflect some of the diverse ethnic groups that came to the West Coas...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > The Rise of Technology
Title: First Los Angeles Electric Car, Pico St. 1887 C.C. Pierce Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. At the turn of the 20th century, new technological advances such as electricity, flight, and the gas...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > The Changing Workplace
Title: 1920, Canning Tables Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The early 20th century was a time of rapid industrialization and the widespread adoption of mass production. These images show the impor...
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1870-1900: Closing of the Frontier > Preservation of the West
Title: Field Party of 1864, L-R: James T. Gardner, Richard Cotter, W.H. Brewer, Clarence King. Prof. J.D. Whitney, with the regards of Wm. H. Brewer [Original shelved: Cal. State Geological Survey:4, POR] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1870-1900: Closing of the Frontier > The Transcontinental Railroad
Title: [Ceremony to drive the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869] Creator/Contributor: Hill, Thomas (1829-1908), British, artist Date: [not before 1869] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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