Week 7: Archive Grid and CAMIO

1. I typed in "Sitting Bull autograph card" and this is what I found:
"Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which many were killed, Sitting Bull led his tribe into Canada, where they lived until surrendering to U.S. forces. After his capture he toured with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Sitting Bull was killed while resisting arrest for his unwillingness to abandon the traditions of the ritual Ghost Dance, which had been outlawed."

I did a search on Helen Keller and came up with 860 matches. There were photograph collections, letters and papers written by Helen Keller, letters written by Annie Sullivan about Helen Keller, printed Braille cards, Helen Keller's autograph, etc. Materials were largely found at University of California, University of Virginia, and Harvard University.

CAMIO
1. I had no idea that Paul Revere was a silversmith. Amazing! The items showcased for him on CAMIO spanned about 40 years, 1760-1800. From teaspoons to teapots, sugar bowls to sugar urns.. I'd be happy with any of his creations!

2. Sioux: Information provided with each image included a title, museum, date, format (medium), type (paintings, sculptures, costume and jewelry, books, drawing and watercolor, photographs, prints, etc). One could click on the type, such as sculpture, and link to other works of that type.

3. Favorite artist: I chose Claude Monet. Wow! I will need to share this tool with both our elementary and MS/HS art teachers. I'm confident that they will find CAMIO useful. I can also see our elementary computer teacher collaborating with our art teacher using this tool... giving students different artist names and having them look through them for favorite works of art.

4-5. Oops! I selected four of Monet's works by checking the box to the left of the image number, and then tried to add them to favorites. That didn't work. It only added the last image. Once I figured out to click on one box at a time and add it to favorites, I was home free. Wow! Our art teachers will do cartwheels when I show them the bells and whistles for this tool! I love how quickly one can make a slideshow, and how easily one can compare two works of art. Piggybacking on the idea in number 3, students could make a slideshow of their favorite works of art and present it to the class. This is one of my favorite new tools so far!!!! I can't wait to share it with our art teachers!