Day 3 Hands-on Workshop

California Dreamn'

Come’n to California has been the dream, hence California Dreamn', for many immigrants and emigrants. Tell your story in writing and through historical imagery. Use Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) to find an interesting photo that symbolizes California dreamn' in a historical context – people, place, thing or something tha represents your idea.

How did you/your family come to live in California? What inspired you or your family to move here? Did you come alone, with your family? Did you come a long time ago or just recently? Go back in your personal history and find your story of California’ Dream’n – coming to California and your family story.

Step 1
Hands-on leader lead tech learning and archival search demonstration

• Demo how to find the full size image and copyright info in Calisphere
• Save a photo to Picasa

Brainstorm

• Work with a partner and orally discuss the prompt
• Write and collaborate in Docs
• Open Google Docs and write a draft, invite your partner. (Do not send an email.)
• Write
• Read each other’s writing
• Publish to your blog

Option: link history to your writing – people, places, events or ideas – find reliable sources on the web to hyperlink your story

Step 2

• Search and save images
• Search for images that tell your story. Find images that represent key elements of your story and save them to Picasa.
• Create a Picasa web album

Step 4

• Post the url of your Picasa web slideshow on your blog

Step 5

• California Dreamn'
• Class migration and immigration map in Google Earth with placemarker links back to class member blogs.