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Social-Studies
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Choose one of the following tasks to explore:
Task: For the following task you will use CommunityWalk to create your first Place-based Storytelling Project. if you have not registered for a CommunityWalk account (free) please do so. They will send you a confirmation email that you will need to respond to.
1) Go to the Program of Studies for your grade and choose a geographical thinking outcomes (either from the Skills and Processes section or one of the outcomes). Try to make your map more than just an interesting travelogue. Think about how you can turn this map into an inquiry activity for your students.
2) Using Google Images, the Creative Commons or Geographical Images, create five place markers on your map. Download an image to each place marker and text content.
Consider adding an audio component to your project.
Task: For the following task you will use Windows MovieMaker to create your first digital historical narrative.
1) Create a five slide digital historical narrative using your own images or the following World War One images or images from FreePhoto
2) Use the following StoryBoarding tool to create a short narrative for your project. Remember that you are showing, not telling the story. Allow the viewer to construct their own meaning.
3) Open MovieMaker (You can find MovieMaker by going to Start ---> Programs)
4) Download your five photos to MovieMaker. Drag to the timeline and add text slides.
5) Download music from Freeplay Music. Drag into the storyline.
Task: For the following task you will use a technique called bubble assignments to investigate historical images.
Print Approach
1) Copy/paste an image from the following resources onto a Word document.
What the World Eats The Great Depression Geographical Images Canada FreetoUse Photos
2) Using the Callout feature in “Autoshapes” (on Word), add bubbles as placeholders for your thoughts and questions. To help you investigate the image deeply, read through the process modeled in the Online Guide Critical Challenge The Stories Pictures Tell
Multimedia Approach
For this task you will make use of an online tool called Bubble Ply.
1) Go to the Bubble Ply web site
2) Choose one of the following videos and copy/paste the URL into the box on the Bubble Ply web site and click "Next".
3) As the video plays, it allows you to add or paste bubbled onto the video. You can pause, fast forward or rewind the video at any time
4) When you click "Add a bubble", a box pops up that allows you to choose the kind of bubble or subtitle you wish to use.
5) The bubbles will hold your investigative comments such as those found in the process modeled on the Online Guide Critical Challenge The Stories Pictures Tell
5) When you are done, click the "Done creating" link at the top of the interface. Bubble Ply generates a link to your new video with the bubbles (as well as the code that you can use to embed it into other web sites.
Wikis in the Classroom
Which one of the Web 2.0 tools would you like to use to create a Best Practice that integrates a(n) outcome(s) from the Program of Studies for Social Studies with technology?
You can use the following document to post your Best Practice (or use your own format):
Grade Seven Grade Eight Grade Nine Grade Ten Grade Eleven
Summaries of the Critical Challenges for K-9
Using the Tool
Examples
Using Bubble Ply/Google News:
CREATED BY BRENDA DYCK
DECEMBER, 2007
