This document outlines the tasks and guidelines for students participating in a project to create educational video content for a school YouTube channel. Students will work in groups to research and produce short documentary-style videos on topics from different historical periods. They will focus on comparing the past to the present day. The project aims to both inform parents and students at other schools. Guidelines provide questions for different topic areas and a timeframe for brainstorming, research, production, and final approval over 3 weeks.

1. Homo Digitalis
A project to ensure the
quality at Vittratelefonplan

2. Bakgrund:
VittratelefonplanTV is a source of pride for us as a
modern school working with 1-1. It is one our most
important windows to the world.
You are going turn vittratelefonplanTV into a channel
that your parents will love to visit to keep up to date
with what is happening is school and to be proud of
what you can do.
The other goal is that we can create material that can
be used by students in other schools so that they can
learn new things for their school work.

3. TASK:
You are all producers and journalists! Thats perfect, because you
have been hired to develope our YouTube channel
VittratelefonplanTV with content that your parents will want to
see and that hopefully will be educational for students from
grades 1-6 about all manner of things!
You are divided into news teams. During the first 2 weeks of the
period, each team will have the task of creating a tv program
outlining the importance of an area of knowledge under the eras:
Middle-ages, The reformation and The age of the Swedish Empire.
The film can be in a style of your choosing, ranging from a
documentary, a news report, a debating program or even a
narrated picture gallery.
Every group’s admission will be shown as part of a coordinated
program on VittratelefonplanTV on Wednesday the 8th of
February.

4. Areas of Knowledge
Culture- Literature/art/theatre/music/
language
Technology and Science
Living standards and lifestyle
Conflicts
Politics and society

5. Your task:
The title of your project is Homo Digitalis. That’s
what you are, people living in the digital age.
During the work with your Tv-program you should
always use your own situation and the age we
live in, in terms of communication, standard of
living and the ability to influence your
surroundings. One tip is for every question you
answer in your research, you might also answer
the question: In what way is this similar or
different from the way things are today?

6. Arbetsbeskrivning
Men också en hel del
Freedom
The task does
have a certain
Framework.
To make decisions.

7. Description of work:
The work you do is going to be multi-faceted. You will attend a
number of lessons and lectures on the journey to reach the goal. YOu
will also be attending meetings with your supervisors (us teachers)
during the course of your work. A rough description of the various
processes are as follows:
Brainstorming - Common discussion of the various topics.
Topic choice - We choose the topics that interest us as individuals.
Group selection- Based on our choice of topic we will make editorial
teams.
Planning/research - How does an editorial team work?
Lecture - a lecture on the most important events of the period.
Research - Fact search about our topic
Supervisor meeting- The team updates their supervisor on progress.
Research/Screenwriting - Fact search and preparation of screen time.
Filming/Editing - The filming and editing of our material
Receive green light to publish - Final meeting with the supervisor.

8. Questions that need to be
confirmed in every group.
Participants in the group?
Area of knowledge?
Questions?
What is your program idea?
Division of responsibility? Who does what?
Material? Which are your factual sources?
Timeframe? When should every component
be completed?

9. Comparative questions to
today, applies to all topics
What is the situation today?
What has changed and how?
What has stayed the same and how?
Is the change/no change a positive or
negative occurence? Why?
What are the causes of the developements?
Are their things that you would like to
change/change back?

10. Suggestions of cultural questions
What music did they listen to?
Did they go to the theatre?
Were there famous artists or writers?
Any famous books or works of art?
What was typical of their books/art?
How did clothes, fashion and design look?
How did their language sound?
Which words were commonly used?

11. Suggestions for questions
around Technology/Science
Architecture - What did the buildings look
like and how did they look?
What were the important inventions?
Who were the famous inventors?
What did we know about the world and how
it worked?
What were the materials we worked with?
Illnesses, Doctors and Medicine - How did
they work?

12. Suggestions for questions about
Lifestyle and standard of living
What did people work with?
What did we eat? and how did we get food?
How and where did we live?
What did the core family look like?
When did people date, marry and move
together?
How old did people get to be?
Hygiene and illnesses?

13. Suggestions of questions
around conflicts?
Serious conflicts during the periods?
Who were involved?
What was the source of the conflict?
How did was it resolved?
What was the outcome?
How was war waged? Who took part and
what strategies did they use?
How did people live in the field?

14. Suggestions to questions
around politics and society?
Religion - what did people believe in?
Were people allowed to believe what they want?
Democracy - Who decided and how was did they
gain that power?
Justice system - Laws, Courts and Punishment
Communication - How does information get
transferred and spread?
Education - How did it work?

15. TimeFrame
Week 4:
Brainstorming in groups - making the groups.
Planning of content
Lecture
Meeting with supervisor
Work - research/scriptwriting
Week 5:
Meeting with the supervisor
Work - research/scriptwriting
Filming - Editing
Meeting with supervisor
Week 6:
Editing
Meeting with supervisor
TV broadcast