Digital Resources

Locating Audio and Visual Texts to Incorporate into our

Community Timeline

Sloan’s New York

• Choose a sketch or painting that caught your attention at the Sloan's New York exhibit at www.johnsloansnewyork.org

• Analyze it using the visual art analysis steps

• Describe how New York was like or unlike our community

The Haymarket by John Sloan (1907) from Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York http://www.johnsloansnewyork.org/gallery/haymarket.html?gallery=0&view=thumbs

Digital Library

Our county has a collection of over 5,000 photographs chronicling our history.

• Explore the web site• Try searching using keywords, dates, and

locations• Select and analyze at least three images

from this site

http://www.digitalforsyth.org

Historical Highway Markers

• View History On a Stick• Select a Highway Marker• Highlight Significant

information• Create a list of important

words• Turn them into a Found

Poem• Describe why this person,

place, or event is important to our community

From http://www.ncmarkers.com

Historical Highway Markers

Rams

Red and white

Old Institution that supports all

Red and White

Enter to learn, Depart to Serve

Departments grow with time

A University in 1969

WSSU

• Winston-Salem State University reflects our city’s commitment to create opportunities for all to attain a higher education. Our city has shifted from an industrial community to one based in business and technology due to the increasing education of our population.

Winston-Salem Dash Baseball

• League Catches Fans Using Quirky Names, Mascots by NPR

• DASH Mascott – by Jeff Tibirii

Suggest a name for our team at:

http://imandalay.com/ws/mascot/