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Indivisible: Educator's Guide
by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona

This Web-based educators' guide to a documentary photograph and oral history project has multiple purposes. I was initially drawn to the site because I wanted to learn how to teach students to view and create documentary photographs (there are some excellent lessons such as Learning To Look, One Word, and Making Documentary Photographs).

But I was soon pulled into the content of the site, which tells the stories of 12 U.S. communities involved in grass-roots projects to improve the quality of life in their communities. The beautiful photographs and oral history excerpts offer compelling stories that can be applied to different subject areas, while providing a rich context for developing important visual and media literacy skills. In addition to the guide, information about the Indivisible museum exhibit and resources for carrying out a similar project in your community are available at the Indivisible main Web site.

Bridget Dalton