Welcome to Collaborate! We are glad you have joined our online community to advise and interact with the National Archives Education Team as we create an exciting new web site, geared specifically for pre-service teachers and methods instructors. We are confident that your experience with primary sources as teaching tools, your knowledge of the needs of pre-service social studies teachers and methods instructors, your interest in technology, and your willingness to share great ideas and insight will contribute greatly to this effort and help ensure the creation of an extraordinary web resource.

We are ready to kick off our project and to hear from you about the kind of National Archives Education web site you would find most valuable. Our current Teaching with Documents web page - http://www.archives.gov/nae/education/lesson-plans.html - features several lessons that suggest methods for integrating documents into classroom instruction. Most of these lessons involve technology only to the extent that the teaching activities and the primary sources are accessible online. We want to rethink the role technology might play. How has your experience with technology affected the way you look at “lessons” and what are some of the best ideas you have seen for bringing primary sources into the classroom?

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