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Date: 3/4/2014

Project name: Genealogy Project: How History Affects Me and My Family

Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Home Page Background: Color - F5F5F3 White Smoke Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Open Sans (Condensed); Sans Serif Font Size – 11.5pt Weight – 400 (body) 700 (H1) Range - .85em – 1.75em Color – 333333 Dark Grey

Actual Text: Why is the Past Important? To many people the past is something that has already happened and therefore not worth keeping up with. Most people are kept busy enough with daily events so that there is not time to worry about what has already happened anyway. The thing many people, and especially young people, forget is that what happened yesterday can impact what happens today, and this is most definitely true when we begin to consider our family. After all, family is one of the most important things in our day to day lives. Things that affect them many times affect us in ways we may not be aware of immediately. The purpose of this project is for you to begin to explore YOUR family's past, relationships, and the time period in which your family members lived. After all it happened to them, and possibly changed their lives, which means it could very well have changed yours. This project will begin with Phase 1 with you collection information on family members and end with creating a video in which YOU will tell their story in Phase 3. After all it's your story too, right. Audience interaction: The students will begin the project by referring to the home page of this site and reading about the progression of the project. The page navigation has been selected so as to allow students to be able to return to a specific point in the project regardless of the timeframe, i.e. the project will take at least three blocks and some work will be done at home as well.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Phase 1 – Initial Research Background: Color - F5F5F3 White Smoke Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Open Sans (Condensed); Sans Serif

Font Size – 11.5pt Weight – 400 (body) 700 (H1) Range - .85em – 1.75em Color – 333333 Dark Grey

Actual Text: Gathering the Information During the course of this project we will collect information about your family. The best way to get started is by conducting interviews with older family members and questioning them about dates and events that they remember and family members. After collecting the initial information and filling in a family tree we can begin collecting photographs and other mementos that can be scanned using a scanner can also be done at this time. After we collect all the information we can and scan the photos we can move on to gathering information about events that were occurring while your relatives were living out their daily lives. Proceed to Phase 2 to begin researching the events that occurred during the lives of your family members and see how it affected them.

Audience interaction: Phase 1 is the beginning point and it is here that the information will begin to be collected. This project is designed to include both oral histories from other family members and formal research to be undertaken in Phase 2. This is the point where artifacts can also be collected for inclusion in the timeline. The purpose of the timeline is to exhibit events and time in a logical and chronological sequence for visual examination by the student upon completion and will be completed in Phase 2.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Family Tree Chart Background: Color - White Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Arial; Sans Serif Font Size – 12 Color – Black

Actual Text: See screenshot for language used.

Audience interaction: Students will use the chart as a basis for the research they conduct during the initial research phase of the project. Information will be gathered from family members and records with details being added as they are available regarding date of birth, marriage, and date of death as applicable to the respective family member. The students will also begin to collection photographs for inclusion in the timeline at a later point. This document will be available in PDF format on the Phase 1 page for download.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Phase 2 – Formal Research Background: Color - F5F5F3 White Smoke Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Open Sans (Condensed); Sans Serif Font Size – 11.5pt Weight – 400 (body) 700 (H1) Range - .85em – 1.75em Color – 333333 Dark Grey

Actual Text: How Did Events Shape Their Daily Lives Many things occur in the course of someone's life that can change it in ways we cannot imagine. Look at the past based on the timeframe your family member was living and collect information on who was president and governor of the state they lived in and find out what actions these leaders may have taken, or some other person of note. Using Discus, we can also research events that occurred and shaped their lives at all levels, locally to nationally. When this is done start creating a timeline with photos and any other digital articles at Dipity, which is a website for creating timelines.

Audience interaction: Students will begin the process of collecting information based on the timeframes of individual family members. They will find information about events occurring at all levels, locally to nationally and incorporate this information into the timeline as well using Dipity, which can be exported and included into the final project.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Discus Background: Font Style, Size, Color:

Actual Text: www.SCDiscus.org See screenshot for language used. The text will vary throughout the course of the research being conducted.

Audience interaction: Students will conduct research of time periods that are relevant to the time in which the family member lived. The focus of this activity is to research events at a local, state, and national level concentrating in major events, but also on more personal events as well, such as births, marriage, or deaths on a personal level.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Dipity Timeline Creator Background: Font Style, Size, Color:

Actual Text: www.Dipity.com See screenshot for language used. The text will vary throughout the course of the research being conducted.

Audience interaction: Students will input dates into Dipity to create a timeline which will include photographs of relatives and ancestors as they are available. Items will be scanned using flatbed scanners available in the media center or computerlab.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Phase 3 – Project Assembly Background: Color - F5F5F3 White Smoke Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Open Sans (Condensed); Sans Serif Font Size – 11.5pt Weight – 400 (body) 700 (H1) Range - .85em – 1.75em Color – 333333 Dark Grey

Actual Text: Putting it All Together Now that you have photographs, information, and a timeline it is time to create a video using Movie Maker and put it all together in a story that you think should be told. Using scanned images, documents, or any digital files a video can be put together with you narrating the story as you see it unfolding. Movie Maker also has the ability to include music that may be meaningful to you, but remember to give credit and cite anything used in the video that is not your own creation. After it has been assembled to your liking you can also go back and polish up the audio using Audacity along with any other audio you wish to incorporate in the story. This is your story so make it one worth telling, and good luck.

Audience interaction: Phase 3 is to be the assembly phase in which the students will pull all the resources together and organize them. The artifacts will be introduced into Movie Maker as this is an application that is both readily available, and is installed on all computers at Fairfield Central High School which made it a logical selection for this project. The students will also have access to Audacity in order to further personalize and polish their project in that it is also installed on computers at school.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Movie Maker 2.6 Background: Font Style, Size, Color:

Actual Text: See screenshot for language used. The text will vary throughout the progression of the project as it is completed.

Audience interaction: Students will begin the creation process by placing the timeline and other files into the application and organizing the video sequence accordingly. This phase of the project allows the student to creatively assemble artifacts in a way that exhibits their personality and allows for their individual talents to be showcased along with the chronological sequence of their family’s history.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Audacity Background: Font Style, Size, Color:

Actual Text: See screenshot for language used. The text will vary throughout the progression of the project as it is completed.

Audience interaction: The use of Audacity allows the student to further personalize their project with commentary and music if they wish. It is intended to used as a measure to polish up the final project and is therefore optional in the final project, but is encouraged for a better final product.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Phase 4 - Evaluation Background: Color - F5F5F3 White Smoke Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Open Sans (Condensed); Sans Serif Font Size – 11.5pt Weight – 400 (body) 700 (H1) Range - .85em – 1.75em Color – 333333 Dark Grey

Actual Text: How Did We Do? Often you are not asked what you thought of a school assignment. This time it's different. I would really like to know if this was a meaningful experience or not. So, when you have finished the project please take a few moments to answer a few questions so that I can tell if this was a good or bad experience. The survey can be found here.

Audience interaction: Phase 4 will guide the student to a survey to collect information about their experience with work on the project and to ascertain whether they found it to be worthwhile.


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Date: 3/4/2014


Author: Shawn Drake

Frame description: Genealogy Exit Survey Background: Font Style, Size, Color: Font Style– Calibri ; Sans Serif Font Size – 11pt Color – 000000 Black

Actual Text: See screenshot for language used.

Audience interaction: Students will complete the survey after finishing the final project to determine how they gauge their experience with the project.

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