Background Information You Can Refer

II. BACKGROUND INFORMATION YOU CAN REFER TO IF YOU WISH

1. Topic for Semester
http://www.publicanthropology.org/Yanomami/10-Spring/background.htm

2. We are encouraging Teachers to use a password that allows their TAs to access that Teacher's website. It need not be the teacher's normal one -- just one that is easily remembered by both the teacher and the TAs. This will allow TAs access to various information that they previously were unable to see. Opening the Teacher's website allows the TAs to gain additional information on their students without having to spend thousands of dollars on reprogramming TA websites. All TAs have to do is log on with the email address of their teacher and the agreed upon password to see needed information that exists on their Teacher's home page.

4. Students can look at TWO YouTube videos to assist them with different parts of the project. (This relieves teachers & TAs from having to give students instructions on these topics.)
(a) What the Community Action Website project is about as well what students do during the first week of the Action Period. The video is located on the publicanthropology.net home page. This means Teachers and TAs can encourage students to watch the video rather than having to explain the project and how it operates themselves.
(b)The Evaluation Process that students participate in during the second week of the Action Period. It highlights the hows and whys of how the evaluation process works. The video is located on the opening page of the evaluation process -- what students see when they start doing evaluations during the second week of the Action Period.

5. There is a book for students, Why a Public Anthropology? It is an Ebook so students can easily download it. The book will go on sale this fall for $9.95 in electronic form so the students are gaining a "good deal." They get to actively participate in the Community Action Website plus the book for the same basic cost. Teachers can download the book by logging on their personal webpage and clicking on FREE COPY OF ONLINE BOOK.

The book can be downloaded either by chapters (in case teachers wish to specify only reading certain chapters) or as a whole. (Either way, the downloading is usually only 10 to 20 seconds.) The first chapter provides the basic background context regarding the current topic being addressed -- repatriation of the Yanomami blood samples stored in American laboratories. It is 43 pages long. The book as a whole addresses anthropology's role in the world -- so it can be used in various campaigns and with various topics.

Students, if they wish, can print the book out so they can highlight key passages. Even cheaper than printing the book is reading it online and copying and pasting key passages into another document (such as a Word file) for later review which, if they choose, they can print out.