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Teachers are invited to participate in a one-day workshop to be held on Wednesday 24 October in the Computer Training Room at the University of Manchester.

The census is an important source for anyone wanting to understand nineteenth century Britain. The Contemporary and Historical Censuses Collection (CHCC) Project involves a team of academics working to make census materials more accessible via the World Wide Web. At the University of Glasgow we are developing eight user-friendly units for teachers and students of nineteenth century Britain which will be made available on the web for use in further and higher education. The materials we are creating will be authored by and designed in consultation with teachers already making use of census material in courses they teach. Suggestions for supplementary resources and case studies illustrating possible uses of the material will be included. This workshop offers an opportunity for history academics interested in the project to find out about becoming involved in the project as authors
and to have hands-on experience of model versions of the materials to be produced.

Programme
bullet10:00-10:30 Registration and coffee
bullet10:30-11:15 About the CHCC
bullet11:15-12:00 Workshop 1: How units might look (Donald Spaeth, Lani Russell)
bullet12:00-12:30 Feedback
bullet12:30-1:30 Lunch
bullet1:30-2:15 Workshop 2: Accessing census datasets (Hamish James, Gustavo De Souza)
bullet2:15-3:15 Feedback
bullet3:15-3:30 Where next
bullet3:30 Coffee

The workshop has three aims:

(1) to identify historians interested in authoring or co-authoring the eight units which we hope to produce by early next year. The topics currently planned for those units are the census, migration, gender, household and family structure, urbanisation, social status, and work and employment, as well as a skills-based unit teaching database manipulation, but views on other topics are welcome.

(2) to give history lecturers an opportunity to examine early versions of two online pilot units prepared for the CHCC project, one about nineteenth century migration, the other addressing the history of the nineteenth century census itself. The units are student-centred and activity-based, amenable to "mix 'n' match" by lecturers, providing components which might take as little as a few minutes or as long as a few hours. The focus is on teaching students about history, but the units may also be used to teach students to manipulate census datasets. 
Digitised primary source material, including census data, will be provided as part of the units. We would very much appreciate hearing your reactions to the model we are developing.

(3) to obtain feedback about a step-by-step online interface which will enable downloading of subsets of 1851 and 1881 census data for use in the teaching units and for other research and educational purposes.

Presenters:

bulletLani Russell, Academic Co-ordinator for CHCC Project, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Glasgow.
bulletDonald Spaeth, Director, Subject Centre, University of Glasgow.
bulletHamish James, History Data Archive, University of Essex.
bulletGustavo De Souza, History Data Archive, University of Essex.

Please register using the on-line registration form below by Wednesday 10 October 2001
If you prefer to register by email or if you are unable to attend the workshop and would like to see the pilot materials or discuss authoring a unit please contact Lani Russell at l.russell@arts.gla.ac.uk  
Directions and further details will be provided at a later date. More information about the progress of the CHCC project as a whole can be found at http://www.chcc.ac.uk/ 

Pilot materials from the workshop will be made available on the CHCC website after 24 October.

To Register for the Workshop please complete the application form and click the submit button

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If you are satisfied with your entries please click the "Register" button and your details will be e-mailed automatically to the Project Co-ordinator. 
Dr Lani Russell, Academic Coordinator, Contemporary and Historical Censuses Collection Project, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, 1 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
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