Teachers who attended the Civics, Congress and the Next Generation workshop Feb 26 had an opportunity to enter the world of a virtual Congress as avatars, teleporting between committee rooms, sitting in the House and Senate chambers and meeting up with other legislators in the Center on Congress’ Virtual Congress application. Guest facilitator Elaine Larson, director of the TPS program from Indiana University, introduced participants to this and a number of educational resources on the TPS Center on Congress site (www.tpscongress.org).
Favorite parts of the TPS Center on Congress experience, as noted by participants, included political cartoons, critical analysis of arguments, Democracy Kids and the Virtual Congress. All of these experiences include primary sources from the Library of Congress. We thank Elaine for traveling all the way from Indiana for this workshop and our enthusiastic participants!
