Eastern Illinois University Homepage

Themed Resources

• Library of Congress Online Resources for Educators (pdf)
• Abraham Lincoln
• Art of War:
  WWI and WWII Posters
• Cartoon Analysis
• Childhood Lost:Child Labor During Industrial Revolution
• Coles County: Taught with Primary Sources
• Corp of Discovery:
  Revealing the American West
• Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources
• Illinois: Taught with Primary Sources
• Presidential Campaigns: Packaging the Presidents
• Underground Railroad:
  A Path to Freedom
• Verse and Chorus
• WWII
• Top Topics

Special Projects

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tools 
• Classroom Activities
• Constant Motion:
  The Job of Railway Post Office Clerks
• Constitution Day
• Library of Congress Site Update "Cheat Sheet" (pdf)
• Lincoln Assassination CSI Activity
• Patriotic Songs
• • September 11
  • Teaching with Lincoln
  • Veterans Day

Professional Development

• Update-Summer Institute
• TPS EIU Jump-Start
• TPS in Action
  (onsite workshop series)
• Customized Teaching with Primary Sources Institutes

Additional LInks

• EIUTPS Google Search Tool
• National TPS Site
• Library of Congress
• loc.gov Teacher PageAbraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

The Source (podcasts)

The Source Home

TPS EIU and TechTalk4Teachers

Twice every month TPS EIU Director Cindy Rich joins Dr. Tom Grissom of the College of Education and Professional Studies as co-host of his popular podcast TechTalk4Teachers.  

Below is a list of episodes and a link to the podcast and notes.

• Episode 141- The tablets are coming, the tablets are coming... 11/30/12
• Episode 140 - New Tech for New Teachers 11/15/12
• Episode 139 -The New Ipad 10/30/12
• Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds 10/15/12
• Episode 137 - Blogging, Books, and RSS Changes 9/28/12
• Episode 136 - We have the technology and we can use it 9/14/12
• Episode 135 - Technology Triage: The Big 3 and Plan B 8/31/12

• Episode 134 - Countdown for Back to School and Olympics via Twitter 7/31/12
• Episode 133 - Tux Typing, Summer Reading List and Conference Season 6/28/12
• Episode 132 - The Linux Challenge and Teaching with Primary Sources DC Meeting 5/30/12
• Episode 131 - Summer Plans and Cloud Wars 4/27/12
• Episode 130 - New & Old, Deep Sea Challenge & Civil War Links (notes and links) 3/31/12 
• Episode 129 - Privacy, archiving, preserving the old, keeping up with the new (notes and links) 2/29/12
• Episode 128 - Constitution and Bill of Rights (notes and links) 1/31/12
• Episode 127 - Historic Media via Social Media (notes and links) 11/30/11
• Episode 126 - Veteran's Day and Music (notes and links) 10/31/11
• Episode 125 - Natural Disasters (notes and links) 9/30/11
• Episode 124 - September 11th (notes and links) 8/30/11
• Episode 123 - Library of Congress Digitized Primary Sources 
• Episode 122 - Teaching with Primary Sources at EIU