Teaching with Colorado's Heritage

Colorado Digitization Program has published online a final grant report entitled "Teaching with Colorado's Heritage." The 144-page document reports on the IMLS grant to create a "state-based school librarian and teaching training program that has comprehensively trained over 200 educators how to search for and use digital primary source material and how to integrate content-rich technology with state-based standards."

The Colorado Digitization Program increased awareness of digital primary sources and taught educators and students to use the sources through:

• Hour-long classes to educate students and current educators
• Sending promotional materials to 1,572 school media specialists in Colorado
• Having participating educators create 65 lessons using digital primary source materials that are now available to educators nationwide
• Having 79 participates in regional and week-long workshops train at least three other educators
• Hosting a two-hour live teleconference that reached an estimated 10,000 K-20 educators, librarians and archivists nationwide

The report includes workshop agendas and other documents in the appendix.