Abstract The Colorado Digitization Project (CDP) is a state-wide collaborative involving libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies. CDP has created an infrastructure that enables cost effective digitization of primary source material. The infrastructure includes a website (http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org) with a rich toolkit of resources for project management; 5 regional scanning centers; an extensive training program; a gateway to searching content across collections; Dublin Core metadata entry templates; and mini-grants for digitization. CDP has been working with the K-12 community over the last several years, developing relationships with educators that enabled identification of teacher/librarian needs relating to the use of digital primary source materials. We discovered that librarians/teachers are not generally aware of the availability of digital primary resources for use in the classroom, and therefore classroom and student use of these resources is not widespread. Teachers indicated that they do not have time to redesign their classroom activities, lesson strategies, and curricula to incorporate digital resources, especially when they do not see an exact match between the current lessons and available primary resource materials. These findings of need are consistent with the experience of the Library of Congress (LC) which resulted in their development of the American Memory Fellows Institute (AMFI) (Appendix A). CDP proposes a statewide model for school librarian and teacher training that delivers the LC American Memory Fellows Institute program at the state and regional level. The program will be modified to incorporate state and local digital primary source materials and to link the use of primary resources with the Colorado Education Standards (Appendix B). In order to adapt the LC material, we will use primary resources digitized by CDP partners. No new digital images will be created through this project. While LCs program is excellent, their ability to reach a large number of school librarians and teachers is naturally limited. In the 5 years since the program began, LC has hosted approximately 200 teacher/school media specialists. Because many states emphasize use of primary source materials, and because there is an increasingly rich resource of digital primary resources, options must be developed to train more librarians/teachers. These programs must become systemic and sustainable. This project proposes three approaches to reach Colorado school librarians and teachers: a national video teleconference, one five-day summer institute, and five two-day regional institutes offered in combination with distance learning technologies to complete the program. All lessons created through this project will be made available through the CDP and Colorado Department of Education web sites. This adapted LC American Memory Fellows Institute program is called “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage.” To demonstrate effective ways of sustaining the training program, partnerships will be established with organizations that have existing school librarian/teacher training and continuing education program. Appropriate portions of the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” will be integrated into existing programs. Key existing programs include the Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting System’s National Teacher Training Institute, a program that trains teachers in use of video and Internet technology. This program is offered in Colorado and in 27 other states. Other partners include the Colorado Regional Library Systems who offer a full range of continuing education opportunities for school media specialists, and the Colorado BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Education Services) who offer continuing education and training through regularly scheduled teacher institutes. The project will use instructor-lead training, as well as web-based and video teleconference technologies. The use of video teleconferencing and web-based instruction offer new opportunities and greater flexibility for reaching school librarians/teachers in remote areas of the state. 1 Narrative IMLS Priorities This project meets two major IMLS priorities. It implements innovative approaches to education and training and enhances the availability of professional librarians with advanced skills or specializations, through development of a web-based learning module supporting an enhanced version of the Library of Congress American Memory Fellows Institute. The project proposes to train librarians and teachers to enhance people’s ability to use information effectively by adapting AMFI to incorporate Colorado’s primary source material and linking to Colorado’s educational standards. The IMLS priorities will be implemented through a variety of continuing education programs. Proposal The Project will model a state-based school librarian and teacher training program involving at least 250 school librarians and classroom teachers. The project will expand the use of digital primary source material, going beyond the current text book and trade publication offerings. (Appendix E). The program will be implemented by: • Adapting the Library of Congress American Memory Fellows Institute program to reflect local and state primary source materials, local and state education standards, and subjects of interest within the state. This adaptation is consistent with LC’s strategy for continuing the purpose of AMFI after the five year funding for AMFI expires in 2002. Further, LC has encouraged other local applications of the AMFI material, one in a school in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the other, the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative, San Francisco, California. • Testing two different approaches to training. o The first approach will be a local implementation of the current LC model—one 5-day summer institute that brings 12 teams of teachers and school librarians together with curators and subject experts to learn how to locate and utilize primary source materials, develop lessons, and discuss these resources with subject experts. o The second approach will be a combination of onsite training and web-based distance learning. Through 5 regionally based 1 ˝-2 day sessions, 12-15 teams of teachers and school librarians will be introduced to the AMFI program and content. These regional sessions will be conducted at facilities with full computer labs. Significant cultural heritage institutions will be in close proximity to there regional training locations. Follow-on sessions will be enabled through web- based learning. CDP will utilize the Blackboard software (Appendix F) to support the full range of learning, threaded discussions, listservs, chats, posting of lessons, and posting of student work. Content will be derived from the enhanced AMFI program. • By delivering a nationwide video teleconference that provides an overview on the use of digital primary source materials. The College of DuPage (IL) (Appendix A) will produce the 90-minute video- teleconference. Potential program participants will include representatives from CDP, LC, AMFI librarian and teacher. • Develop means of ensuring that the program is sustainable over time, through 2-4 hour introductory sessions based on selected material from “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage”, o Work with Rocky Mountain PBS to incorporate “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” into their National Teacher Training Institute program (Appendix C). o Work with the Colorado Regional Library Systems and BOCES to incorporate “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” into their continuing education programs. Institute and workshop participants will be drawn from school librarians who have been involved in the Colorado State Library Power Library program (Appendix C), the PBS NTTI master teacher program, recommendations from the Colorado Regional Library Systems, and self-nominated individuals. The participants must have a solid foundation in use of the World Wide Web, be a current classroom teacher or school librarian, indicate an interest in exploring new opportunities for incorporating digital primary source materials in their lessons and meeting the Colorado Education Standards. The Library of Congress recommends that the teacher be from one of the humanities disciplines (social studies, history, language arts, 2 literature, etc) and that a multi-disciplinary approach be taken to incorporate other disciplines including science and math. The Colorado implementation will not require a humanities approach, but the content will be strongly humanities based. Relationship of The Colorado Digitization Project’s Project Plan to this project The CDP Project Plan, 1992-2002, (Appendix D) identifies as one of its purposes “To encourage incorporation of digital resources to meet the Colorado Education Standards.” A goal of the project is to “Work with the Colorado K-20 environment to incorporate digital objects that assist teachers, parents and students in meeting the Colorado history standards.” Specific activities already undertaken by CDP staff include: • Meeting with school librarians regarding the CDP and use of digital images. • Creating a working group to develop approaches for using digital images in K-12 schools • Develop plans to increase use of digital resources • Explore training needs of K-12 educators on use of primary source materials • Develop a pilot program for curriculum based digitization initiatives working with Power Library Program participants and content owners • Evaluate impact on meeting Colorado History Standards • Expand knowledge of how digital resources can be used in K-12 Needs Assessment Over the last year, the CDP has undertaken a variety of activities to assess use of primary resource materials in selected Colorado K-12 schools. • Denver Public Schools: During the 1999/2000 school year, CDP representatives met with the Director of Educational Resource Services, curriculum coordinators and school media specialists to explore classroom use of digital primary resource materials. Curriculum specialists identified opportunities for use of these resources, based on the Denver Public School standards, as well as the State Standards. They also identified barriers to the use of digital and physical primary resource material. These meetings eventually expanded to include representatives of CDP grantees from libraries and museums to explore possible cooperative efforts. • Poudre School District (Ft. Collins): CDP representatives met with the Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator and the District Media Specialist Coordinator, regarding use of primary resource materials. Poudre Schools have experience working with digital content, through a Colorado State University (Ft. Collins) project that incorporates Geographic Information System education and web applications in the Middle and High School Social Studies Curriculum. Major concerns related to cost and travel distance to view museum exhibits. They suggested creation of virtual tours of museums as a means of accessing primary source materials. • Colorado Educational Media Association: At the CEMA 2000 conference, Liz Bishoff gave a presentation on access to primary resource material through the CDP and discussed with school media specialists, their familiarity with available digital resources, how these resources might be used in their programs, and the knowledge level of and use by their teachers. Attendees indicated significant interest in the digital resources, with limited current use due to difficulty in locating materials, and the time required to enhance lessons. • University of Colorado Secondary Schools Outreach Program: CDP representatives discussed a 5-year old outreach program involving technology and research training delivered to schools from Denver metropolitan area to western slope Summit County and Steamboat Springs. Part of this program has involved research methods and resources available to K-12 students and their school media specialists and teachers. This program has made limited use of digital primary source materials, but indicated an interest in including such resources. • The CDP Project Director met with graduate students in Education to discuss primary research resources. The group included teachers experienced in K-6 education. These students had limited knowledge of primary source materials, including how to locate them and use them in lessons. • University of Illinois Library: This IMLS grant pilots a partnership between 3 teachers from 3 elementary schools and 5 content owners. Teachers enhanced lesson plans, by incorporating existing digital content. The project included a teacher training session on standards for metadata and scanning, as well as how to use digital resources. The Principal Investigator reported that the partnership resulted in teachers developing new options to use primary resource materials in classroom instruction. 3 • Museum Educational Programs: All major Colorado museums and historical societies have educational programs that bring students and their teachers into the museum or offer outreach activities. Denver Museum of Nature and Science reported 500,000 students visited or used Museum educational resources. Colorado Historical society reported that 53,000 students visited the Museum and it’s regional sites and 100,000 students viewed videos or used kits. While a large number, it is estimated that there are more than 650,000 K-12 students in Colorado who had little or no contact with these museums. These investigations identified the following needs and issues that can be addressed through “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage”: • School librarians and teachers require training on use of primary resource materials, including what primary resource materials are and how to use primary resource materials in instruction. • Teachers are not familiar with digital primary resource materials in their subject areas. • School librarians do not have the in-depth knowledge of primary source materials to train teachers and students. • Teachers are concerned about the time required to create new lesson plans incorporating new resources. • School librarians and teachers like approaches that allow them to teach both content and prepare students for the Colorado standardized tests. • School librarians and teachers want to help all students meet standards, particularly English as a Second Language students and those with special needs. They indicated that visual resources help students with special needs. • Teachers reported declining opportunities for museum field trips due to time and expense. Methods that allow students to use museum and library special collections from the school computer lab, classroom, the school media center, or their home computers are attractive. • School librarians and teachers were enthusiastic about the potential for creative teaching and learning offered by digital resources. • School librarians and teachers believed primary resource materials offer new means of illustrating areas of the Educational Standards. These needs are addressed through the project’s goals, described below. Goals 1. Improve school librarian and teacher awareness of digital primary resources through an innovative training model for delivering the Library of Congress (LC), American Memory Fellows Institute at the state level, through a combination of traditional and technology based learning techniques a. MEASUREMENT: Through pre-and post tests, assess the level of participant learning in each of the approaches. Conduct focus groups and/or interviews with teachers, librarians, and school administrators, measure satisfaction with the different approaches. b. MEASUREMENT: Using an assessment instrument, measure satisfaction with the teleconference. 2. Improve librarian and teacher skill levels enabling them to integrate digital primary resources into their lessons, by making available and using the CDP enhanced LC AMFI materials for use in both approaches, incorporating additional materials that support Colorado educational standards and state and local resources. a. MEASUREMENT: Teachers and librarians use the enhanced materials successfully in the training program, demonstrating the ability to integrate Colorado digital primary resource materials as well as those available through the American Memory Project into lessons. b. MEASUREMENT: Through pre- and post-tests, assess the level of participant learning in each approach. Conduct focus groups and/or interviews to determine how teachers incorporated the materials into lessons, what barriers to use they encountered, satisfaction with the new resources, and feedback on ways teachers have been able to meet state standards. 3. For librarians and teachers taking existing training and continuing education programs, improve awareness of digital primary resource materials by integrating the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” program into existing and ongoing teacher and librarian training programs. For undergraduate teacher training programs, improve awareness of digital primary source materials by providing information on the Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage Program. 4 a. MEASUREMENT: Observable insertion of training materials into existing programs offered by partners such as Rocky Mountain PBS, the Regional Service Systems, and the BOCES. b. MEASUREMENT: Present Overview on using Primary Source Materials in at least 3 undergraduate teaching courses offered at University of Northern Colorado and University of Colorado at Denver during Fall, 2002 and Winter, 2003. 4. Demonstrate ways digital primary source materials can be used by school media specialists and teachers. a. MEASUREMENT: Collect and post lessons developed by the teams on the CDP web site educators resources section and the Colorado Department of Education Standards in Action website (Appendix E). 5. Expand use of digital primary source materials in the participating school librarians’ buildings. a. MEASUREMENT: School librarians will develop lessons to use in training teachers or students in use of primary source materials. These lessons will be made available via the CDP and CDE websites. Librarians will report the number of teachers and students attending such programs. b. MEASUREMENT: A focus group of school librarian participants to determine the role of school librarians in use of primary source materials, lesson development, and impact on student learning. 6. Enhance student use of digital primary resources. a. MEASUREMENT: Focus group with school librarians and teachers to measure impact on student use patterns both for individual student activities undertaken in the library or specific classroom activity. 7. Broadly disseminate information on how others can modify the AMFI program for state and local use. a. MEASUREMENT: Through presentations and publications share with the educational and cultural heritage community information on modification of the AMFI program, development and implementation of the regional program, and the introductory sessions b. MEASUREMENT: Expand the Educators section on the CDP website to include information on this project, including materials that enhance the LC AMFI program, online learning methodology, and Power Point presentations. Objectives and Activities for the Goals: For Goal 1: Improve school librarian and teacher awareness of digital primary resources through an innovative training model for delivering the Library of Congress (LC), American Memory Fellows Institute at the state level, through use of traditional and technology based learning techniques. • Recruit and select teams of school librarians, teachers and/or curriculum coordinators/specialists to participate in the various training programs. • Activities: o Recruit participants from among the 450 PBS trained master teachers and the 50 Colorado Power Library Program participants, o Work with the Colorado Regional Library Systems to identify teams, o Conduct a statewide call for participation, o Select 12 two-member teams for the 1-week summer institute, o Select 12-15 two-member teams in the 5 regional programs, and o Plan and conduct assessment activities. • Conduct the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” training programs o Activities !"Hold a 5 day summer institute at the University of Denver for 12 teams of teachers/librarians, !"Hold 5 regional institutes for up to 60 teams of teachers/librarians, !"Support online learning component for regional institute attendees, and !"Plan and conduct assessment activities. • Incorporate new technologies into the program design and execution. o Activities ° Using Blackboard web-based online learning software (Appendix F), web instruction designer will develop online components of the instructional program in collaboration with the University of Denver School of Communication, Digital Media Studies Program, 5 ° In collaboration with the College of DuPage host a national video- teleconference on the topic of Using Primary Source Materials (Appendix G), ° Incorporate digital primary source materials from a range of Colorado cultural heritage institutions and the Library of Congress American Memory project into lessons, and ° Plan and conduct assessment activities for technology-supported learning components. For Goal 2: Improve librarian and teacher skill levels, enabling them to integrate digital primary resources into their lessons, by making available and using the CDP enhanced LC AMFI materials for use in both training approaches, incorporating additional materials that support Colorado educational standards and state and local resources. • Enhance American Memory Fellows Institute materials, incorporating Colorado Education Standards and Colorado primary source materials. o Activities: !"Modify the LC AMFI materials to incorporate meeting of specific Colorado Educational Standards, !"Modify the LC AMFI materials to incorporate state and local resources in the targeted subject area, !"Identify state and local primary source materials in digital format that support program, and ° Identify specific Colorado Educational Standards that relate to use of primary source materials for educational development in the areas of critical thinking, problem solving, etc. • Develop framework for lessons that link national events with local and state events, i.e. national labor movement and local labor activities such as the Ludlow Massacre. o Activities: !"Using the current LC Lessons Page framework for using primary sources, expand material to include linkage between national events and state or local activities, !"Develop examples in several subject areas to identify digital resources supporting this effort, and !"Incorporate the framework in the learning materials. • Make the Colorado framework for incorporating state education standards and state and local resources available to other states. o Activities: !"Make the Colorado specific components of the AMFI available via the CDP website, and ° Enhance the CDP website Educators section to incorporate the framework for the Colorado program, including structure for the 5-day institute, use of Blackboard, and collaboration with other organizations • Develop and broadcast a national video teleconference on use of primary source materials in collaboration with the College of Dupage (COD). o Activities: !"Plan and deliver a 90-minute video teleconference, available through the COD network of downlink sites, !"Include a copy of the video in the materials for the institutes, !"Make a copy of the video of the teleconference available on Interlibrary Loan, and !"Execute the COD teleconference evaluation. • Develop and conduct the assessment program designed to measure teacher ability to apply the new AMFI material by modifying their lessons and classroom activities. Appropriate activities are reflected under individual objectives. For Goal 3: For librarians and teachers taking existing training and continuing education programs, improve awareness of digital primary resource materials by integrating the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” overview program into existing and ongoing teacher and librarian training programs. 6 • Using existing training infrastructure, such as the Colorado regional multi-type library consortia, regional K-12 educational consortia (BOCES), and the Rocky Mountain PBS NTTI program, conduct 2-4 hr. introductory sessions at the regional library system meetings, BOCES teacher institute days, and the annual Rocky Mountain PBS NTTI master teacher training program. o Activities: !"CDP will develop introductory sessions on Use of Primary Source Materials, !"Partnering with the PBS NTTI coordinator, schedule a session on primary resources at their June 2002 program, ° Collaborate with the Regional Service System directors, to incorporate new material into existing school librarian technology training programs. Conduct programs for each of the systems, ° Negotiate the introduction of content on primary resources into BOCES-based teacher institute training programs on technology. Conduct the program, and ° Conduct sessions at Colorado Library Association, Colorado Media Educators Association meetings, and regionally based subject-based or district-based teacher meetings. For Goal 4: Demonstrate how digital primary source materials can be used by school media specialists and teachers to meet the Colorado Education Standards. • Each librarian/teacher team will develop a lesson using the methodologies taught through the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” program. The lessons should be appropriate to their classroom and school curriculum and incorporate the appropriate Colorado Education Standards. o Activities: !"During the institutes each team will enhance an existing lesson or develop a new lesson related to their selected topic, and ° CDP will arrange to have the lessons posted on the Colorado Department of Education Standards in Action website. CDP will link to the CDE website from its Educational Resources section. • Teams will use state and local content, as well as LC American Memory collections in their lessons. o Activities: !"Curators, librarians, and /or scholars, will be conduct sessions on the Colorado resources as part of the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” program, ° CDP staff will train participants in how to search the CDP Heritage: The Gateway to Colorado’s Digital Resources, and the resources available through the CDP website, and ° State standards will be highlighted, so that lessons prepared by the teams will reflect state, local and national resources as appropriate for various standards. For Goal 5: Expand use of digital primary source materials. • School librarians share the knowledge they gained through the “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” by developing lessons for use with building teachers and training at least 5 teachers in use of primary source materials. o Activities: !"School librarians will work together to generate ideas and strategies for the lessons, !"School librarians and teachers will work together generating ideas on ways to reach other building or district teachers and librarians, !"School librarians will create lessons to train other teachers. Optionally they may create lessons to use with students, !"Design and conduct assessment programs, !"Review ideas and methods for encouraging other librarians/teachers to develop lessons with primary resource material, and !"Utilize the video of the teleconference in the teacher training program. 7 For Goal 6: Enhance student use of digital primary sources materials. • Explore ways to involve students directly in the use of digital primary resources held by Colorado libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies, as well as those held by the Library of Congress. o Activities: !"Engage teams in joint discussions of the various ways the team-developed lessons will involve students in independent access to digital primary resources, !"During the teleconference, explore model lessons that engage students in independent learning using primary source materials, !"Teachers include in lessons, options for student activities using digital primary source materials, and !"Design and conduct the assessment program. For Goal 7: Broadly disseminate information on the AMFI program for state and local use. • Through a variety of dissemination activities, make information available on the CDP modified LC program reflecting local and state content and the state education standards. o Activities: !" !" Consultants will prepare a manual on how they enhanced the AMFI program to meet Colorado Education Standards and incorporated the Colorado resources, CDP will make the manual and materials associated with the enhancement of the !" AMFI program available via the CDP website, and Consultants, CDP Staff, and institute participants will offer presentations to a wide range of professionals in the library and education field. National Impact: Many library and museum digitization projects have a goal of increased use of digital resources by the K-12 community for both classroom instruction and individual student learning, and supporting educational standards that reference primary source materials. As early as 1996, the Library of Congress was promoting its American Memory project, distributing its unique resources from their collections via CD-Rom to selected schools across the 50 states. When evaluating this initiative, teachers reported that they were not able to fully use these resources. In response, LC developed the AMFI program. Through 2000, more than 200 teachers and librarians have attended the AMFI program. In working with the Colorado educational community, CDP identified similar concerns and determined that a solution had to be developed if our goal of increased use of primary source materials by the K-20 community would be achieved. This proposal will demonstrate how the AMFI can be adapted at the state and local level, broadening the reach of the AMFI content while incorporating state and local educational standards and state and local historic, scientific, and cultural heritage collections. The adaptation of the LC model will result in a variety of materials that can be adopted by other states. Further, the methods used in Colorado to incorporate these materials into other existing continuing education programs can be emulated in other states. Adaptability: This project will demonstrate several models for education and training: the five day institute, the regional institute combining onsite and web-based learning , and overview sessions that can be made available to other organizations offering librarian and teacher continuing education. The project will demonstrate how to modify the AMFI program, incorporating state and local educational standards, and local resources. It will offer a model for the development of online learning components, as well as making overview session PowerPoint presentations available at the CDP website. Design: This proposal is a comprehensive and broad-based collaborative model implemented on a state-wide basis. It addresses needs identified both at the federal level through the LC program, and at the state level in Colorado through the CDP needs assessment process. The project design is cost effective and efficient, building on the extensive work of the LC and the technology expertise of partner organizations including the College of DuPage, and the University of Denver instructional technology units that already deliver web supported or 8 video teleconferencing content. We are using existing training infrastructure, such as the PBS National Teacher Training Institute and the efforts by the BOCES to engage teachers in technology applications. Additionally, use of these existing frameworks demonstrate system change, since we will be collaborating to modify content applied on a statewide basis. Finally, we are using the infrastructure for availability of digital resources built by the Colorado Digitization project (Appendix D). Management Plan: CDP has demonstrated solid management practices through its current IMLS funded program. The management structure has solidified with the establishment of a 10 member steering committee. Over the last 2 years, the CDP has established a working group composed of school librarians, curriculum specialists, and content owners. The group has identified training needs, and options for training programs. Representatives from this group will serve as an advisory group for the project. Colorado has eight individuals who have completed the LC AMFI. We will work with these Fellows in a variety of ways including using them as consultants to adapt the AMFI content to meet the state education standards, as advisory committee members, and instructors. The Project Director will be Liz Bishoff, who has overseen the development of the CDP. The University of Denver has the necessary legal and financial resources to support the project. The College of DuPage has more than a decade of experience in production and distribution of video teleconferences to the library community. The educational technology consultant will be selected on the basis of advanced skills in web-instruction and experience working with the library and/or educational community. This individual will work with the University of Denver Digital Media Studies faculty, who have extensive experience in educational technology and pedagogy. Further, the University Technology Services division of University of Denver will assist in implementation of Blackboard software. Contributions: This project involves significant contribution of personnel resources, both for the development of the program as well as execution. The CDP Steering Committee will monitor the activities of this project, as part of their responsibilities for the overall CDP Project. Major in-kind contributions are coming from the 200 sites that will downlink the video teleconference. The University of Denver is contributing a portion of the salary of the Principal Investigator as well as facilities for the 5-day training institute. Organizations involved in offering the overview sessions will be contributing staff to time the planning and local arrangements, while the host sites for the regional training sessions will be contributing facilities and computer laboratory space. Personnel: The Principal Investigator, Nancy Allen, has been the P.I. on the major IMLS grant supporting the Colorado Digitization Project, and is Dean and Director of Penrose Library of the University of Denver. She has significant management experience, and expertise in the area of primary source materials. She has an MLS and an undergraduate degree in education. The Project Director for the current proposal, Liz Bishoff, is the Project Director of the Colorado Digitization Project, and would incorporate “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” into the activities of the CDP. Liz Bishoff has an established career record in collaborative organizational development, and prior to her current work was a vice president of OCLC. She also has significant management experience in such major organizations as the American Library Association, where she is currently Treasurer and member of the ALA Executive Board. She also served as director of a public library, has been a school librarian and has an MLS and an undergraduate degree in history education. An Administrative Assistant will assist the Project Director and Project Coordinator in scheduling workshops, assisting with course registration, promotional activities associated with the video teleconference and institutes, preparation of course materials, etc. A Project coordinator will be hired to manage the revision of the LC AMFI material, work with project consultants in development of the workshops and the content of the teleconference, recruitment and selection process, coordinate programs with other continuing education organizations. This person will teach overview programs. This individual will have the appropriate educational training to support this initiative. A job description is found in Appendix I. 9 American Memory Fellow Institute fellows will be hired as project consultants with responsibility for enhancing the AMFI, incorporating the Colorado Education Standards and the Colorado primary source materials. Additionally the consultants, working with the CDP staff will revised the agenda to reflect the non- LC based program as well as develop the structure for the combination onsite and distance learning program. We propose contracting with Kevin Rundblad as the technical consultant to develop the web-based learning modules associated with the distance component of the regional program. This individual has extensive experience developing distance learning programs for the Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association using distance learning software such as Blackboard. In addition, the pedagogical component of the web based learning modules will be guided by Dr. Jeff Rutenbeck, University of Denver, and his Digital Media Studies students. Resumes are in Appendix H. Project evaluation: The PI and Project Director have been trained by IMLS in outcomes-based assessment, and these assessment methods have been incorporated into the development of the project goals, objectives, and activities. Measurement strategies have been linked to each goal. The project will use a variety of assessment tools, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups. For a number of the activities output measures are the appropriate means of evaluation and they will be collected. Further, the budget includes funding for a professional evaluator, Claudia Horn, President of the Alliance Group, who has previously worked with IMLS and is familiar with the CDP. Dissemination: The Colorado Digitization Project is a nationally visible model of statewide cultural heritage institution collaboration. Because this current proposal is so closely associated with the goals of the CDP, we will discuss the education-oriented projects and programs in all presentations given about CDP’s entire action plan. Further, we will present information about “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” at conferences such as Web- Wise, the joint NSF-IMLS Digital Library conference, American Library Association conferences and its divisions’ conferences. Working with project participants we will make presentations at appropriate school library conferences, and state and national teacher conferences. The Project Director is often contacted to make presentations about the CDP at regional or state professional association meetings, and will address the results of the project currently proposed. We have a strong working relationship with the Western Council of State Librarians, and will propose a presentation at that annual meeting. Over the two years of this project, we anticipate funding will be needed for a total of 3 trips outside Colorado to disseminate the model through presentations, and that another 5 trips will be funded by organizations requesting presentations. At least 3 of these presentations will be published in proceedings to establish a permanent record of the model demonstrated by this project. Institute attendees will be encouraged to promote their experiences through appropriate publications. The CDP website will be a primary vehicle for dissemination of information about the project. The Educators Section on the website (Appendix J ) will be expanded to include a full range of materials developed for the project, as well as expanded links to the LC American Memory Fellows Online resources, and the Colorado Department of Education website (Appendix E). Sustainability: The project is designed to be sustainable. The enhanced LC AMFI material prepared for “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage,” will be posted on the CDP website. The lessons developed by the librarian/teacher teams will be posted on the Colorado Department of Education website and linked through the CDP website. The “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” material can be used in subsequent workshops for further development of awareness of digital primary resources for classroom use, and development of additional lessons. Future workshops could be hosted and funded by any number of stakeholders offering teacher/librarian training including the State Library, individual school systems and BOCES, and the regional 10 library service systems. Finally, material from “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage” will be included in existing continuing education programs for ongoing use. This entire project models a method of developing increased awareness of digital primary resource material and skill in applying that new knowledge that can be readily replicated in other states. The Library of Congress AMFI material are in the public domain and LC is encouraging their adaptation for state and local application. Programs, such as the PBS NTTI program and BOCES exist in other states, providing a natural path for continuing education. In short, the pieces are in place in many other states to replicate “Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage”.