Place-Based Education

Engaging students in their own communities through local history, local culture and the local environment. An initiative of the Massachusetts Studies Project at UMass Boston.

Footnote: Web 2.0 site

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"FOOTNOTE" is organized around primary source historical documents, many (most?) from the U.S. National Archives.  The site is well-organized, and offers a number of standard, useful Web 2.0 features:

    • View and enlarge documents to discover hidden clues.
    • Print documents to read later or add to your scrapbooks.
    • Save documents to your Footnote Gallery.
    • Search or browse all indexes on Footnote
    • Create your own member page about histories, showcase original source documents, collaborate, or use it as a digital notebook.
    • Share any document you find.
    • Add People, Places, Dates & Text within any document, which then become searchable.
    • Upload any image from your computer that you want to share with others.

The service costs $99 / year; there is no information on the site about educational pricing.  I wrote and asked them about this, and will let you know if/when I hear back.   Visitors to NARA facilities get free access to the site, and supposedly the records will be available for free on NARA’s Web site (http://archives.gov) in five years.

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