VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT
ELCO HIGH SCHOOL
LT. COL J. RAY BICKEL
• WWII Navigator
• 467TH Bomb Group
• 35 Missions
• B-24 Liberator
Second Air division
• Reunions
ACCIDENT
• Hard fall
• Cracked 7 ribs
• Broke Pelvis
• Blood clot
Now or Never• Lucy and my dad
Autobiography• Childhood
• Military Service
• Career
• Video Interview
Planning
• Classrooms for the Future Initiative
• Technology Coaches
• Access to laptop cart
• Researched Veterans History Project website
Coordingating Project• Technology coach Amy Weddle invited
history teacher Donna Delcollo and her class to work on the project.
• Teachers met several times during planning periods to coordinate the project
The Process
• Wikispaces
• Research
• Conducting an Interview
• Veterans Era/Conflict
Planning for the Interview
• More research
• Writing questions
• Practicing
• Video equipment
Camcorder practice
• Video equipment
• Battery charger
• External mic
Conducting the Interview• Polycom Interview
Writing the Transcript• time consuming
• spelling places accurately
Collecting materials
• collecting photos
• memoirs
Burning interviews to DVD• takes more time than you think
Delivering the Projects
Tour of the Library
Tour of the Library of Congress
Veterans give speeches at war memorials
Students create multimedia narrative
Amy thanks veteran for his service
WWII Veteran with his granddaughter