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Monday, July 18, 2011 VLC Spotlight: Rebecca Morrison
Rebecca Morrison is the Program Coordinator for the New Links (distance learning/ videoconferencing) program in the Virtual Learning Center and the Social Media Manager for the department. Rebecca is approaching her seven-year anniversary at Cooperating School Districts.
Rebecca graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a related field in Religious Studies. After completing her coursework at Mizzou, she began work for the St. Louis office of the Missouri State Archives as an archives clerk on the St. Louis Circuit Court Project. While there, she assisted the archivist with record preservation by processing documents for microfilm and digitization; this project provided access to traditionally unavailable case files of the St. Louis Circuit Court from 1804-1875 (including Freedom Suits). Later, while working as the New Links coordinator at CSD, she helped connect several HEC-TV videoconferences that took place live from her old office at the archives.
Since December 2004, Rebecca has worked in the Virtual Learning Center as support, and then shortly thereafter, as the videoconference coordinator. In her time at CSD, she has connected students and teachers in the St. Louis metro area to sites all over the world, including Australia, India, Iraq and the United Kingdom. She has enjoyed getting to know authors and experts all over the United States, and growing her global professional learning community. Rebecca also conducts professional development on incorporating distance learning into K-12 classrooms. She also maintains the VLC blog, Facebook page, Flickr account and the Twitter feeds for the Virtual Learning Center and the Midwest Education Technology Conference (you can find links to these pages in the blog’s sidebar).
In her free time, she spends time with her husband and toddler son. She also volunteers at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. When time permits, Rebecca enjoys cooking and watching those History Channel documentaries that continue to be added to her DVR.
Tags: Freedom Suits, Missouri State Archives, New Links, social media, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 21st Century Approach to Studying History
Today’s HEC-TV LIVE! videoconferences focused on the use of primary sources to explore the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s election as President on the start of America’s Civil War. Tim Gore of HEC-TV was live from the Missouri State Archives office in St. Louis and connected to students in states including Missouri, Oregon, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Idaho, Pennsylvania. To read about past programs put on by HEC-TV LIVE!, visit these blog links. To watch this afternoon’s show live at 1 o’clock via stream, visit http://live.hectv.org/.
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, HEC-TV, Missouri State Archives
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 Fighting for Freedom – A History Lesson
The Gateway City: Passage to Freedom — On September 25 students interacted with historians and archivists and discussed the significance of Freedom Suits filed in St. Louis years before the famous Dred Scott case. There was one interactive HEC-TV LIVE! videoconference at 10 o’clock and the second will be at 1 o’clock today. For more information on viewing the program, please click here.
Do you want to learn more about the Freedom Suits? Go to the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project website. According to the Missouri State Archives, “the case files in the archives consist of 301 legal petitions for freedom by people of color originally filed in St. Louis courts between 1814 and 1860. They make up the largest corpus of freedom suits currently available to researchers in the United States.”
Tags: African American history, American History, archives, Distance Learning, Dred Scott, free state, Freedom Suits, HEC-TV Live!, History, Missouri State Archives, slave state, slavery, social studies, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, St. Louis MO, videoconference
Monday, August 25, 2008 Freedom Suits, Slavery, & American Justice
This is a really cool videoconference opportunity from HEC-TV. I’m especially excited about it because before I came to work for CSD, I actually worked at the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project as an assistant archivist and learned quite a bit about the Freedom Suits. (Small world, right?) Here are the details on this September videoconference:
The videoconference (for grades 4-8th) will focus on the use of primary sources to explore the institution of slavery in 19th century America by looking at the specific example of the “freedom suit” court records of the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project.
What are the Freedom Suits?
A study of 19th century American history or a study of the Civil War would not be complete without including the famous freedom suit of Dred Scott. While Dred Scott may be the most famous of slaves filing a freedom suit, he certainly was not the only one. These suits, which were legal petitions for freedom by people of color, became a common way for slaves to seek to obtain their freedom in the St. Louis area. The bulk of these suits were filed from the 1820s to 1850s. Slaves who had moved with their owners to live in free states often used this event as a basis to seeking their freedom.
The program learning objectives are:
1. The participant will explore the dynamics of America’s institution of slavery and how it functioned in the 19th century.
2. The participant will interact with primary source documents and interpret how they impact his/her understanding of a particular historic subject.
3. The participant will engage in a discussion about “freedom suits” and their impact on political and social life in America during the early and mid 19th century and share their ideas and questions as they interact with historic experts and primary source artifacts.
…for more details on this videoconference, please visit this link. Disciplines covered during the videoconference include history, social studies, and character education. Available dates: September 25, 10-11 am CDT and 1-2 pm CDT.
Tags: 19th century, American History, American Justice, archives, Character Education, Civil War, court records, Distance Learning, Dred Scott, free states, freedom, Freedom Suits, HEC-TV, History, legal petitions, Missouri State Archives, research, slave states, slavery, social studies, St. Louis, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, videoconference
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