Integrating Primary Sources into the Elementary School Classroom: A Case Study of Teachers' Perspectives

Anne Gilliland-Swetland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at Univeristy of California, Los Angeles where she teaches in the graduate specialization in Archives and Preservation Management. She has published widely in the areas of electronic records administration, archival information systems, and archival education. She is currently co-director of the American Team participating in the InterPARES Project.

Yasmin B. Kafai is Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kafai undertook her studies on learning theories and technologies in France, Germany, and the United States. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1993 while working at the MIT Media Laboratory. She has written numerous articles on learning technologies and environments for young children in the fields of education, developmental psychology, computer, and information science. Her research on video games and learning has been published in Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children vs Learning. Her research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, focuses on young children as designers of simulations and builders of digital archives. Through digital apprenticeships she studies the ways in which young students share their technological expertise, develop collaborative planning tools, and integrate science learning. She is also serving on the National Commission on Gender, Technology, and Teaching by the American Association of University Women.

William E. Landis is currently manuscripts librarian in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Irvine. He has been production coordinator for JSTOR (Journal STORage -www.jstor.org/), a not-forprofit organization based in New York City that provides Web-based, full-text search access to complete backfiles of approximately 140 scholarly journals, and archivist for the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He received his MILS from the University of Michigan in 1994, and specialized in archival administration. Bill has published articles and given conference presentations on the broad topic of the challenges of providing access to archival information systems via the World Wide Web, and is actively engaged with the articulation of standards to guide implementation of Encoded Archival Description.