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Printing Documents for Offline Use by StudentsBy The Learning Page staffPublished on 07/09/2004 Having students work with documents online is often impossible--but access problems should not prevent teachers from using documents from American Memory. Text documents in particular can easily be printed and copied to create document packets for student groups. Most text documents can simply be printed by hitting the print button on your web browser's toolbar. Alternatively, you can access print commands from the file menu. The documents in the American Memory Timeline print particularly cleanly, as they have been excerpted and formatted especially for use by teachers and students. Sometimes, however, you may want or need to print an image of an original document rather than a transcription. A good example is the letter from Theodore Roosevelt to his son discussed in the "Teaching Ideas: K-2" section of this newsletter. The bibliographic record for this document can be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/045)). To view the page image, click on the thumbnail showing the document. To print this image without the other type on the page, right click on the image (Mac users: hold down the mouse button). A menu will appear. Select the "View Image" option. Your image will now appear alone on a new page. Print this page as you would any other web page and you have a nice clean copy of the document for student use. [send article to a friend] [print full article] [return to front page] |
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