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[SOUND].
Hello again, Pacific Northwest History students.
This is your instructor, Susan Vedder, and this is a brief introduction to how
to find our free online textbook. Here I am in the textbook folder in our
ANGEL classroom. You know where I am by looking at these
bread crumbs to see how I got there. Here is our required textbook.
It's free. It's online.
It's available from this website. These are the instructions for how to
find it on that website and this is this MLA style citation for a textbook.
I will refer to our textbook in shorthand as Findlay after the author, professor
John Findlay at the University of Washington.
Here is the title of our online textbook, the website where it's located.
This means no date because there's no specific date of publication, although,
as you read the chapters, you will notice that most seem to have been written in
And here, when you actually side our textbook, you will enter your access
the late 1990's. This tells you it's a web resource.
date, meaning, the date when you access the textbook and read that information.
A date would be the 10th of October, 2012.
Notice also in our textbook folder that I give you an optional print textbook to
buy. It does not, I repeat, does not replace
the required reading the you have to do in the Findlay textbook, but you might
find it handy to have a print text of Pacific Northwest history, to refer to,
and this is a text I used for many years and it's relatively cheap to buy or you
text. It's simply, if you'd like an option of a
print textbook to look at, to refer to. Again, here are the instructions on how
can find it in a library to check out. Remember, it does not replace the Findlay
to find our textbook. Here's the link.
We click it. It opens in a new window and off we go.
Here's the new window opening on a site called the Center for the Study of the
Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington.
This is a very helpful website. We will use other materials here, but the
main one we will use is our textbook. Remember those instructions?
Look under Classroom Materials > Pacific Northwest History > Course Index, takes
you right to the chapter list in our textbook.
But let's go to the main site where you see an introduction by Professor Findlay,
a noted Pacific Northwest historian, with a new book in 2011 out with Bruce Hevly
called, Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West.
Professor Findlay notes that many of you may also be looking at the Schwantes
textbook, Carlos Schwantes, a noted Pacific Northwest historian, used to be
at the University of Idaho, where I was fortunate enough to take a seminar class
with him. And after that, able to work with him,
present conference papers with him at various Pacific Northwest History and
This is the course overview. This is a list of chapters.
Mining History Conferences. [SOUND].
You don't need this because this supplies to Professor Findlay's University of
Washington Class. There it is.
[SOUND]. Grading and assignments applies to this
class, not ours. We use the textbook.
Here's a list of the chapters. Notice they're organized into units, and
within units, the lessons. A total of 27.
These lessons are essentially like chapters in a textbook.
If you look at our syllabus, and here it is.
It repeats the information about the required textbook, how to find it, the
citation, the optional textbook to purchase, if you wish, but not to replace
the online textbook. And remember, way at the end of our
syllabus is a Brief Schedule and I take you to it to show you the shorthand way,
Here it is. Week 1.
I refer to the Readings in our online text book.
That opens Thursday morning. You'll read some ANGEL lectures, and you
will read Findlay, Units 1 and 2. Let's go back.
Here's the list of the chapters in Findlay, Unit 1, Unit 2.
So, essentially you're going to be looking at these four chapters.
Let's click into the first one, Who Belongs in the Pacific Northwest?
Click on it. It opens.
And there you see what you will read. Now, explain in our textbook folder that
each week not only will you have the link to the online textbook, but I will
provide PDF files for the assigned chapters each week.
You can then download those PDF files and read from those.
If you don't want to read online, you have the option of printing right from
the website or printing from those PDF files, but printing will very soonly, to
the screen, either online and reading this screen or reading the PDF file on
many pages, not very eco-friendly. Thus, you will find yourself reading on
your computer screen. Be prepared for that, a lot of screen
reading and note that I give you an alternative to screen reading.
There's our software applications, tools that you can download.
I give one of them here, that we'll actually read an online page to you, such
as, Lesson One. That may give you a break, your eyes a
break, from the reading and you can listen.
Alright. I said this would be quick and I'm
droning on and on. Let me just show you that be aware of
links within a chapter page that if you click on it will open that cartoon in a
larger version, a new window, then you can return to Lesson One by doing that.
I hope that gives you a quick introduction to how to find our text
book. Remember, you go under Classroom
Materials > Pacific Northwest History > Course Index, and there you see the list
of units with lessons within them that we will refer to as chapters.
Conveniently, our reading assignments, we'll refer to the online textbook as
Findlay, and give you the specifics of which unit, which lessons within it to
read. I provide, references to the Schwantes
text should you want to read more about that particular time period or topic that
you read about in the Findlay text, you can look at it in the Schwantes text to
give you more information. Remember, these Schwantes readings do not
replace reading in the Findlay text. Have I said that enough times?
I do repeat myself, but only because I find myself answering the same question
over and over again. Thank you for your patience.
I hope you're now comfortable with how to find our online textbook.