Family History as a thread for American History Family History as a thread for American History

Presenters Sarah Sutter: Wiscasset High School art teacher and technology integrator, adjunct professor of digital imaging at the University of Maine in Augusta, Google Certified Teacher. ssutter@svrsu.org twitter: edueyeview Mary Ellen Bell : Wiscasset High School social studies teacher, currently teaches American History and World Cultures. mbell@svsru@org

And you are . . . If you would please share in the chat: Where you are from What you teach (grade / content) Or if you aren’t a teacher, what you do

If you would please share in the chat:

Where you are from

What you teach (grade / content)

Or if you aren’t a teacher, what you do

The Project

Interactive, Collaborative Timeline Collaborative Maps Wikis to share and link multimedia for final oral history project

Interactive, Collaborative Timeline

Collaborative Maps

Wikis to share and link multimedia for final oral history project

WHY? Make it personal to encourage investment in the project Put history in perspective as relates to individual life experiences of people they know - or meet in the process Ownership of the events & chronology - not just memorizing dates Engage in oral history process & using primary documents Provide opportunity for students to engage in storytelling with history content

Make it personal to encourage investment in the project

Put history in perspective as relates to individual life experiences of people they know - or meet in the process

Ownership of the events & chronology - not just memorizing dates

Engage in oral history process & using primary documents

Provide opportunity for students to engage in storytelling with history content

To provide students with a place and mode to practice multiple times throughout the semester the history skills of: History Skills

To provide students with a place and mode to practice multiple times throughout the semester the history skills of:

Identifying and using appropriate sources, whether they be internet websites, primary or secondary text sources, visual, audio, multimedia, graphs, maps or political cartoons. 2. Distinguishing fact from opinion and comprehending and interpreting text material 3. Citing sources, both text and media, in proper MLA format RESEARCH & READING SKILLS

Identifying and using appropriate sources, whether they be internet websites, primary or secondary text sources, visual, audio, multimedia, graphs, maps or political cartoons.

2. Distinguishing fact from opinion and comprehending and interpreting text material

3. Citing sources, both text and media, in proper MLA format

1. Clarifying and summarizing in final draft form for a peer audience WRITING SKILLS

1. Clarifying and summarizing in final draft form for a peer audience

1. Using and following chronological order 2. Analyzing cause and effect 3. Comparing and contrasting 4. Developing historical perspective and understanding historical context HISTORICAL THINKING

1. Using and following chronological order

2. Analyzing cause and effect

3. Comparing and contrasting

4. Developing historical perspective and

understanding historical context

Tools We Used

X-Timeline Collaborative, chronological thinking

Process Introduced the tool, started with Jamestown Students divide up events & enter events, media Classroom discussion about what to include Revision Students add in all the Presidents & other notable bios Continued discussion around what to include Reflection on what’s missing Addition of short essays on the causes or importance of particular events / movements / eras Assigning individual or small group threads : Women, African American, Native American, Asian American, Latino American, Sports & Leisure, Inventions, etc. to engage the idea of bias & perspective in history

Introduced the tool, started with Jamestown

Students divide up events & enter events, media

Classroom discussion about what to include

Revision

Students add in all the Presidents & other notable bios

Continued discussion around what to include

Reflection on what’s missing

Addition of short essays on the causes or importance of particular events / movements / eras

Assigning individual or small group threads : Women, African American, Native American, Asian American, Latino American, Sports & Leisure, Inventions, etc. to engage the idea of bias & perspective in history

Google Maps: Visualizing family immigration places & dates

Moodle Wikis Clickable, shareable, controlled access space for multimedia Family History project

Product Options Everyone creates a wiki as linked (to X-Timeline) presentation space for images, audio, video, text Media in movie format Media in podcast or enhanced podcast format Audio in separate audio files CD of oral history with handmade book for visuals and text

Everyone creates a wiki as linked (to X-Timeline) presentation space for images, audio, video, text

Media in movie format

Media in podcast or enhanced podcast format

Audio in separate audio files

CD of oral history with handmade book for visuals and text

Are there any other timelines people have used that they would recommend? **Collaborative and multimedia components a must

Are there any other timelines people have used that they would recommend?

**Collaborative and multimedia

components a must

Intro to X-Timeline Let’s view the timeline together. Click here if you prefer to see it in your browser, otherwise we’ll screen share here.

Student Feedback : What works well? See overtime how things have come together or fallen apart for America Gives you the chance to connect national history and personal history. It makes the contexts more understandable if you want to learn more about a certain thing, all you have to do is go to the date and click Involves the class and shows history visually which helps us to learn Helps us look at others people's work and learn what they learned without doing it The way it goes by the dates of the events/ in order (2) Organized by date of the event Easy to navigate and it is a good study source Easy to understand (student) explanations /(entries) Explanations done by each other work really well (Info) is in one place ( 4) Easy to use

See overtime how things have come together or fallen apart for America

Gives you the chance to connect national history and personal history.

It makes the contexts more understandable if you want to learn more about a certain thing, all you have to do is go to the date and click

Involves the class and shows history visually which helps us to learn

Helps us look at others people's work and learn what they learned without doing it

The way it goes by the dates of the events/ in order (2)

Organized by date of the event

Easy to navigate and it is a good study source

Easy to understand (student) explanations /(entries)

Explanations done by each other work really well

(Info) is in one place ( 4)

Easy to use

Student Feedback: What could be improved? If we all titled our entries better, we would know what it is about before opening it Titles could be more clear as to what the entries are about Some key events are missing Grammar and spelling checked first ( 2) (Learning) how to cite information and find more images I don't like using it all the time. It really seems to be more of a burden VERY SLOW / It is slower than grim death. It needs to be sped up. ( 4 ) speed ( 3)

If we all titled our entries better, we would know what it is about before opening it

Titles could be more clear as to what the entries are about

Some key events are missing

Grammar and spelling checked first ( 2)

(Learning) how to cite information and find more images

I don't like using it all the time. It really seems to be more of a burden

VERY SLOW / It is slower than grim death. It needs to be sped up. ( 4 ) speed ( 3)

Options Community involvement : Senior center interviews Recording oral history through cell phone (tools for recording phone: Rondee (free), iTalk ($5 iPhone or iTouch app) Or put phone on speaker phone next to laptop mic & record in Noteshare or Garageband or Audacity If family history is an issue, adopt a neighbor Digital audio recorders we used were Olympus WS-110 and WS-210 models (roughly $60ea)

Community involvement : Senior center interviews

Recording oral history through cell phone

(tools for recording phone: Rondee (free), iTalk ($5 iPhone or iTouch app)

Or put phone on speaker phone next to laptop mic & record in Noteshare or Garageband or Audacity

If family history is an issue, adopt a neighbor

Digital audio recorders we used were Olympus WS-110 and WS-210 models (roughly $60ea)

Questions & Comments? Use the chat to ask questions or *6 your phone to join in with audio.