San Rafael City Schools (District) Team Contact Information

Please provide the following information on your wiki page. 

Name(s), Position(s) Grade Level or Content and Grade Level, email

Sarah Zykanov- k-12- Curriculum & Tech support- szykanov@srcs.org

Mark Lubamersky- 10-12- Social Studies GOD- mlubamersky@srcs.org

Elisa King- 10-12- English & Reading Intervention- eking@srcs.org

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Treasure Hunt Activity Results

Photo or link

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

6 C's interpretations

CONTENT

Line of people, Japanese evacuees, carrying items/belongings, men/women/children, multiple layers of clothing, patiently waiting to board bus

CITATION

Photographer Dorthea Lange, May 9, 1942, Centerville, CA

CONTEXT

Following Pearl Harbor, during WWII, Japanese-Amercians being sent to relocation camps in interior of California/Utah

CONNECTIONS

Japanese were discriminated against due to ethnic identity, in response to fear of spies/potential threats, sent to internment camps- families were kept intact, lost property/belongings left behind,  photograph shows- 72 hour time limit to report to relocation site- notice amount of luggage/belongings

COMMUNICATION

Primary source- photograph, shows process of relocation

CONCLUSIONS

Greater understanding of racism and selective fear during conflict, shows racial perceptions as a result of Pearl Harbor and conflicts with Japan, personal connection with those affected through primary source photograph, empathy with the small number of parcels. We wonder what people brought with them.

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Cross Team Sharing - using Calisphere resources

These are some ideas to get you thinking about the informal sharing with other Calisphere teams.

Use this wiki space to jot down notes for each team member.

Use the questions as a guideline and be prepared to BRIEFLY share your answers to one or two questions ONLY  (time limit of 3 minutes)

1. What did you explore or experiment with?    

We met to look at whether Garage band would work in our student accounts. It did. 

We also looked at how we could have the students save their finished work in the teacher drop box so they could show their work on the class projectors.   ummmmmm

 We tested Garage Band and saving to the teacher's folder to be sure it would work and talked  about how students could pick photos in Calisphere save them in a folder and cite for use in projects.  (e.g. podcast with pictures...) We tried to figure out how to add sound effects and overlays.  We realized we need more work on garage band

1. How did it work?
2. What is something cool you found on your own? 
3. What were the challenges you encountered?
4. What is something you still want to do?
5. What advice do you have for others...

After the workshop on March 1st, when we used PowerPoint to pull together photos and add our voices, I think we agreed it would be easier and probably more practical to have students do their projects using PowerPoint.

Our challenge now is to find time when we can work on this project with students at Madrone.  It's just a matter of defining the goals and making time to get started.  Once we define the parameters and show the students a few pointers on PowerPoint and recording, I think they will be able to take the technology piece on.  Our challenge will be to maintain the focus on the content and on critical thinking.

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District Team Sharing - This is our Game Plan!

• Topics we will cover when we share with others
  • Availability of Calisphere as a resource.  Ease of use, breadth of coverage.  Some search tips
• Who is your intended/desired audience - grade level. school, district
  • I have shared this resource via email with all our certified staff K-12.  I also sent the link and some ideas to the K-12 principals.
  •  I offered to do a workshop for the staffs of each school using the resource.
• Strategies to work together = Collaboration!
  • An online wiki and perhaps a blog may be a way to encouraged collaboration.
  • Just making time to meet with teachers informally is good.  It's hard to get on an agenda for a staff meeting
• Possible Challenges
  • Time
  • Current climate of budget crisis and chaos
• When do you want this to happen?
  • Email has already gone out in early March.
  • Follow up meetings scheduled in later March and April
• Action Items for this team
  • Calendar times for Sarah to come help with student projects.
  • Decide on what we want the students to do
  • Decide on our desired outcomes and evidence of student learning