To apply complete the Institute Application and email it to Katie McCormick at kmccormi@uncc.edu.
The Application Deadline has been extended to March 28, 2008.
Accepted applicants with be notified by April 11, 2008.

Teachers accepted to the program will each receive a $200 stipend with successful completion of the summer institute. In addition, up to 4.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) can be earned for participation. 15 applicants will be accepted into the program.

UNC Charlotte Atkins Library‚s New South Voices Summer Institute is a 2 week primary resources/oral history digitization institute for Middle and High School social studies teachers designed to provide teachers with the background and digitization training needed to develop web based curriculum materials for use in their classrooms. Teachers will learn about multicultural digital content resources, engage in dialogue with historians, participate in field-based explorations, and expand their technology skills.

Week 1 will familiarize teachers with the history of the Charlotte's African-American community, with oral history and primary resources at UNC Charlotte, by providing training in the retrieval and use of these materials in the classroom. Additionally, professors from UNC Charlotte's History and Africana Studies Departments will provide contextual historical information through interactive lectures. Teachers will also participate in a bus tour of the former Brooklyn community in Uptown Charlotte and the Biddleville Community, two prominent African-American neighborhoods in Charlotte. The bus tour will be conducted by the Charlotte Cultural Heritage Partnership and former residents of Brooklyn community.

Week 2 will focus on hands-on technology training in scanning and digital audio, creating basic web pages, and provide an opportunity for teachers to work hands-on with material and produce online curriculum resources in accordance with North Carolina curriculum guidelines and their own classroom needs. These guides will be hosted on the New South Voices Oral History Website.

Participating teachers will be asked to complete 2 follow-up surveys, once as part of their evaluation of the Summer Institute to discover how they feel their participation may effect their use of such materials in the classroom, and once in June 2009 to discover how their use of these materials may have changed during the school year based on their participation in the Summer Institute.

This institute is made possible by a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the NC Department of Cultural Resources and 10% in matching funds from UNC Charlotte.

Please contact Katie McCormick at kmccormi@uncc.edu or (704) 687-6288 if you have any questions.