by Rita Baladad
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This training will introduce participants to the Immigrant Stories project, its tools, and its resources for educators.
This training will introduce participants to the Immigrant Stories project, its tools, and its resources for educators. Immigrant Stories helps recent immigrants and refugees create, share, and preserve digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
Educators will learn about the project's curriculum and free website, immigrantstories.umn.edu, where students can create their own digital stories.
Founded in 1965, the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) aims to transform the way in which we understand immigration in the past and present. Along with its partner, the IHRC Archives (University Libraries), it is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary research center and archives devoted to preserving and understanding immigrant and refugee life in North America.