Maine Memory Network

I would use the Maine Memory Network as a research resource in my class, as a social studies teacher. The MMN is especially important and useful because it provides a plethora of good local information. The multimedia aspect of the site is nice. The more I looked at the site, the more interested I became. I actually spent a good deal of time looking through the various photo albums sorted by town. It was very interesting to look at old photographs of Sanford, and I enjoyed the article on the Portland White Mountain Club. This is certainly a solid pretext to actually venturing out to historical societies in Maine for research.

One way to use this site would be to use it as a resource for photographs for a project on community tourism. Students could use images (with permission) to promote the history of their town in a Type II way, like a tourism wikispace.