This is an outline of my goals while working on my FIPSE project, along with a brief examination of some of the classroom exercises which I developed to address those goals. Further materials are accessible via my CSI homepage at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/

Goals:

1) To foster students' experiential learning in my own classroom.

2) To produce teaching materials which will foster students' experiential learning.

3) To encourage students who intend to become teachers themselves to produce teaching materials which will foster their own experiential learning and their future students' experiential learning.

Goal One: Fostering students' experiential learning in my own classroom.

A) Hiking in High Rock Park with the Honors Class (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/502.html)

--materials for reading beforehand/writing questions (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/502write.html)

--the program for the hike

--outcomes

B) Touring the Museum of the American Indian

--materials for reading beforehand (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/nmaitrip.html)

--the tour of the museum

--writing questions (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/nmaitrip.html)

--outcomes

C) Evaluating Content and Quality of Websites

--introducing online materials/WWW tutorial (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/csitutor.html)

--Evaluating websites discussion (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/websites.html)

--generating goals for own websites (see Goal Three below)

--outcomes

Goal Two: Producing teaching materials which will foster students' experiential learning.

A) The Liberty Rhetoric Website (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/liberty.html)

--contents

--layout

--exercises for use

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/quesorig.html)

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/queslowe.html)

--outcomes

B) Virginia Woolf's Orlando

--starting point for Orlando (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/orlando.html)

--critical reading on Orlando and gender bending (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/orlchg.html)

--critical reading on women and biography (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/orlbio.html)

Goal Three: Encouraging student teachers to produce teaching materials which will foster their own experiential learning and their future students' experiential learning.

A) The New York Women's Biography Hub (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/)

--planning the site

--addressing technical concerns/phobias

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/386tags.html)

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/386temp.html)

--addressing research concerns

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/library.html)

(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/links.html)

--addressing writing concerns (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/essay.html)

--creating (and critiquing) the Hub

--outcomes

B) Yvonne Tu's Guide to Public History (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/tu/)