Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: My principal concern on September 11th, after contemplating the sheer human tragedy of it all, was how to deal with the events as a history educator. Teaching at a small community college, I knew that I could not approach the classroom as the typical day, particularly coming from a historical perspective. While loathing the cliche "history in the making," I knew that for my students the events of the day would be that type of generational reference point such as Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, the moon landing, Challenger, etc. Therefore, I decided the most responsible thing I could do was to tell my students to make their classrooms in front of a television set or radio. While I was trying to arrange for a video feed in our main liberal arts building, our resident political scientist negotiated the placement of a television set in the lobby of that building. There was where many of my students attended class that day along with hundreds of their peers. My colleagues and I watched the students as much as we watched the news on the television since we felt that we were learning as much about our students and their private feelings as we might ever learn. Despite administration reminders that September 11 was "business as usual," those social science and humanities instructors--at least along my corridor--knew that perhaps the most valuable lesson that our students would obtain in their two years with us was unfolding before their very eyes. I told my students to consider not only the events themselves but also the reporting of the events. When I got together with classes on Wednesday and Thursday, much of the planned lessons on colonial America and ancient Greece were displaced by energetic discussions of terror and its consequences, American hegemony and the world, personal experiences of loss and suffering, and so forth. I was amazed at how many of my students told me that I was the first of their teachers to even talk about the events in the classroom even two days after the event. My experiences of September 11 reminded me of my duties as an educator--to value the student first, the learning process second, and the content lastly. The history classroom for me during and after September 11 became even more a flexible laboratory in which to study and comprehend the human condition, and I know that my students may remember it a bit as that as well. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story368.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-08 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 216.125.152.29 Annotation Annotations to this item. Students/Teachers Television Coverage Terrorism DOMESTIC Feature