How-To Guides:

Downloading GPS Data

Creating and Editing Shapefiles

Creating a Shapefile from a Table

Downloading Data from ME GIS

Setting up a Geo-Treasure Hunt

Basic HTML Coding

Ethnography Handouts
(Including Project Steps, Interviewing Excercises, and Transcription Format)

Ethnography Forms & Templates
(Including Participant Consent Form, Tape Summary, and Interview Catalog)

Intro to iMovie & iDVD

Organizing Your GIS Data

Set-up Your PC as a Local Web Server

Set-up MAC as a Local Web Server

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Software Downloads:

ArcExplorer

Nvu

DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView

Web Hosting:

Maine School Library Network

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GIS Links:

Learning GIS

GIS.com
http://www.gis.com
General information about GIS & spatial data. A good, basic introduction to the technology.

Color Brewer
http://www.colorbrewer.org
Cynthia Brewer’s online tool to help you choose color schemes for your maps.

Resources for Teachers

ESRI
www.esri.com/industries/k-12/index.html
ESRI is the leading GIS software manufacturer. Their website has user forums to answer technical questions, informational brochures about GIS, and information about grant programs to acquire software at reduced price.

College of the Atlantic's GPS to GIS curriculum
http://home.coa.edu/gislab/teachers/gpstogis.htm

Tech Teachers
www.techteachers.com/gps.htm
This is a collection of lessons, activities, links and resources for educators interested in using GPS/GIS information in the classroom.

Getting Attribute Data

Maine State Planning Office
http://www.state.me.us/spo/index.php
Offers a wide variety of data, including census, economics, health, and more.

Raymond H. Fogler Library
http://www.library.umaine.edu/census/
At the University of Maine, offers historic census data for the state.

Getting Spatial Data

Maine Office of GIS
http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us
Has lots of GIS data for Maine available for download. Also updates on trainings, news for GIS use in Maine.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation
http://www.emdc.org/community/services_detail.cfm?show_sub=true&sub_services_id=- 916261593&services_group_id=07.26.2004.10.42.58
Offers economic development and landuse planning data and assistance to Eastern Maine businesses and municipalities.

Map Galleries

ESRI Map Book Gallery K-12
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/user-showcase/mapgallery.html
A collection of maps from the ESRI Map Books created by those in primary and secondary education.

Directions Magazine Map Gallery
http://www.directionsmag.com/mapgallery/
A collection of maps produced using many different software packages and data sets.

Other GIS Links

Geospatial 21
www.geospatial21.org
Features great videos of exciting career opportunities within the geospatial technology industry.

US Geological Survey (USGS)
education.usgs.gov
The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and college inquiry and research.

University of Maine Base Station
www.forest-resources.umaine.edu/basemain.htm
For downloading basefiles for mapping grade GPS units.

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Ethnography / Oral History Links

Maine Links

Windows on Maine
windowsonmaine.library.umaine.edu/
A wide array of video, sound recordings, pictures, and text from several Maine Historical institutions.

Maine Memory Network
http://www.mainememory.net/schools_front.shtml
Maine's Online Museum: Welcome to Maine Memory's Digial Classroom

The Martin & Caraher Sardine Factory Oral History
www.tidesinstitute.org/tides/martincaraher/martincaraher.html
Example of a good fisheries-related oral history project on The Martin & Caraher Sardine Factory in Maine.

Resources for Teachers

A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms
www.loc.gov/folklife/teachers.html
Bartis, Peter and Paddy Bowman. A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms. Web site: Lists printed materials, videos, state-by-state folk arts agencies and other materials suitable for school use. The focus is on folklore, but there are many items of interest to teachers of oral history as well.

Association of Oral History Educators
www.geocities.com/AOHELanman
This Web site offers a range of publications, information, and services to those seeking to teach oral history in K-12 schools. Members of AOHE receive a newsletter, "The Oral History Educator." For further information, contact Barry Lanman, President, The Association of oral History Educators, P.O. Box 24, Ellicott City, MD 21041, or e-mail: AOHELanman@aol.com.

CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
www.carts.org
The Web site of the National Network for Folk Arts in Education provides national and regional resources, lessons, essays, virtual residencies, and the CARTS Catalog of ethnographic teaching resources.

Talking Gumbo: A Teacher's Guide for Using Oral History in the Classroom

Dean, Pamela Toby Despit and Petra Munro. Talking Gumbo: A Teacher's Guide for Using Oral History in the Classroom. Baton Rouge, LA: T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Louisiana State University, 1998. This oral history manual for secondary school teachers and their classes accompanies a 30-minute video "You've Got to Hear interviewers. This Story," on how to do oral history interviews. The video features students as Manual and video are available from the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University. Contact director Mary Hebert by e-mail or call (225) 578-6577.

Other Ethnography Links

American Folklife Center
www.loc.gov/folklife
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Folklife and Fieldwork, 2002. Contact AFC, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC, 20540. (202) 707-5510 Veterans History Project 2002
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project 2002. Through a youth partnership, middle school and high school students can participate in interviewing and recording war veterans. By following the project's guidelines, students and their teachers will learn oral history methods and systematic procedures. If they submit their fieldwork to the American Folklife Center or to another participating archive, their efforts will become part of a national endeavor to conserve important stories of a disappearing generation. All necessary information is available at this site.

History Matters
historymatters.gmu.edu
Center for History and New Media (George Mason University, Va. and American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York). The History Matters Web site: A gateway to web resources for American history teachers at the school and college levels. Filled with teaching tips, guides to analyzing primary source evidence, exercises for utilizing online collections from the Library of Congress and other public and private resources, discussions with major historians, syllabi, a reference desk for the use of electronic materials, and links to a variety of sites specializing in American history.

FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research
www.fieldworking.com

American Memory Learning
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu
American Memory Learning A useful portal into the enormous repository of photographs, texts, speeches, diaries, maps, art works, ephemera, recordings, and films from the Library of Congress.

LouisianaVoices
www.lousianavoices.org
This site is in the public domain, adaptable for any region, and has dozens of lessons, rubrics, release forms, and ideas for student projects.

Montana Heritage Project
www.edheritage.org
This statewide network of rural Montana educators and students engaged in community documentation and cultural heritage education provides extensive articles and teaching ideas online.

My History
www.myhistory.org
Directed at young people who wish to discover their own roots and link their families' pasts to the history of America. The emphasis is two-fold: encouraging youth to collect and tell stories and linking those stories to larger stories about the nation. The Web site provides many historical links and topics and has enough changing features to be a continual source of interest. A related educational site can be found at edsitement.neh.gov.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
www.folklife.si.edu
This site has online guides, a link to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and a very user-friendly online handbook for student fieldwork projects, "Discovering Our Delta."

Exploring Community History
www.farmersmuseum.org/shop.htm
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. Present Meets Past: A Guide to Exploring Community History. Vol. I: All About Me; Vol. II: The Place Where I Live. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1988. In these two volumes addressed directly to students, each illustrated chapter includes a teacher's guide and background information on how to get started researching personal history. Vol. I contains background information, a teacher's guide, activities, follow-ups and an extensive bibliography. Vol. II has many illustrations with project activities, follow-ups and a bibliography to direct learning about community and neighborhood. Order from Farmers Museum, Lake Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Phone: (607) 547-1494

Wisconsin Folks
www.arts.state.wi.us
This site provides engaging resources for elementary students. Also see great student fieldwork and directions for creating regional student fieldtrips in the related Dane County Cultural Tour csumc.wisc.edu:16080/cmct/DaneCountyTour.

Oral History Workshop
www.baylor.edu/oral_history/workshop.htm
An on-line oral history workshop from the folks at Baylor University. They say on the site--"We are pleased to share with you here the basics of oral history research, with particular emphasis upon the interview process."

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Web Links

Platform Shoes
www.platformshoes.org
Founded in 2001, Platform Shoes Forum is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides interactive educational programs for youth through web-based activities that integrate art and technology. The organization develops integrated e- learning models for the creative implementation of art and technology for all types of educational activities.

HTML 4 Kids
www.html4kids.net

Learning HTML for Kids
www.goodellgroup.com/tutorial

W3Schools HTML Tutorial
www.w3schools.com/html

University of Texas at Austin: HTML
www.utexas.edu/learn/html

KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org/div/kidsweb

CREST Summer Institute Adv. Web Curriculum 2007
Course Manual
Course Files

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Fisheries and Marine Education Links

The Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Resource Center
www.vims.edu/bridge/
A wealth of ocean science lesson plans, information, and games.

Oceana
www.oceana.org
This international advocacy organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the world's oceans has "oceana interactive" with links for: learning more about oceans, ocean threats, tropical fish fun facts, "wonders of the deep," and "geared up quiz."

Ocean Conservancy
www.oceanconservancy.org
A good general source of information on top ocean conservation issues.

Guide to Fisheries Education Resources for Grades K-12
www.fisheries.org/publications/catbooks/x55026.shtml
Buy the Guide to Fisheries Education Resources for Grades K-12 published in 1998 for $16. This guide focuses on fisheries content rather than on specific education objectives and evaluates different resources teachers can use to meet their fisheries and aquatic education needs.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education Center
www.epa.gov/teachers
The environmental educator center from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has curriculum resources on watersheds and ecosystems.

Rural Policy Research Institute
www.rupri.org
A very useful web site with extensive links to other policy sites. Expansive directory of linked resources includes Rural Health Care, Rural Telecommunications, Rural Welfare Reform, Rural Finance, Rural Development, Rural Housing, Rural Data Sources, Agriculture, and Rural Education.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/kids.html
Curriculum teaching how oil spills and dangerous chemical accidents are cleaned up, complete with experiments.
www.pmc.noaa.gov/tc/index.htm
Provides twice weekly communication between students and the NOAA research ship conducting fishery and living marine resource research in support of the National MarineFisheries Service. Students can follow the vessel's daily operations through regularly posted pictures and write-ups.
www.oar.noaa.gov/k12
Provides middle school students with research and investigation experiences using on-line resources. Even if you do not have much experience in using web-based activities in science, the directions here are easy to follow.
www.education.noaa.gov/shipname
A student contest to name NOAA's new ship requires student teams in New England (grades K-12) to research a name and prepare a related classroom education project to support and justify its proposed name. This project must be adaptable by other teachers in their classrooms so that it can help fellow students learn about NOAA, its environmental stewardship and its ocean-related science and research.
www.st.nmfs.gov/lfkproject
Maine's Local Fisheries Knowledge (LFK) Project connects students to their communities and the local fisheries that support them as they "document and preserve" the stories of local fisherman for future generations.

New England Fishing Crisis
A recent four-part series in the Boston Globe covers the New England fishing crisis and presents the different constituencies involved and what kind of roadblocks they face in trying to rectify the environmental and economic problems plaguing the industry. The articles are notable both for representing the fisherman's point of view and pointing out that it "isn't just an environmental problem, it's also a people problem."
www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2003/10/26/a_once_great_industry_on_the_brink/
www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/10/27/scientists_fishermen_in_standoff/
www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/10/28/some_look_for_hope_beyond_courtroom
www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/10/29/for_all_sides_goal_is_preservation

Marine Careers
www.marinecareers.net
Have your students check out possible future marine careers.

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Other Resources

Jackson Labs Summer Student Program
www.jax.org/education/ssp.html
An internationally recognized center for mammalian genetic research, The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit institution. Here, outstanding students conduct interdisciplinary biomedical research as apprentices in the laboratories of staff scientists.

The Rural School and Community Trust

National Marine Educators Association
www.marine-ed.org
Join the National Marine Educators Association to receive their journal and meet other teachers with whom to exchange ideas, experiences and teaching techniques and discuss the latest research. The organization also has regional chapters.