Showing, Inquiring, and Doing History: Thinking Deeply with Webbased Tools

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Showing, Inquiring, and Doing History Thinking
Deeply with Web-based Tools

• Tom Hammond, Lehigh University
• Bill Ferster, University of Virginia
• Meghan Manfra, NCSU

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Who? What?

• Presenters
• This session
• Social studies teaching strategies Three quick
  takes
• PrimaryAccess suite of tools
• Where to go next

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Three different ways to teach about the Great
Migration

• Didactic (Giving or telling)
• Inquiry-driven (Prompting)
• Hands-on (Making or doing)

For more on the giving vs. prompting vs. making
approach, see Hammond Manfra, 2009
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The Great Migration (didactic approach)

• 1910-1940 / 1940-1970 / 1965-
• 1.6 million migrants
• Seeking economic opportunities urbanization

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The Great Migration (inquiry approach)

• Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, Panel 1,
  1940-41
• During the World War there was a great migration
  North of Southern Negroes.

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The Great Migration (hands-on approach)
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Technical requirements

• Flash Player, version 8 or better
• To record narrations (PrimaryAccess movies)
• Java Runtime Environment
• Headset mic
• Cost? Free
• How do I get it?
• www.primaryaccess.org
• www.historybrowser.org

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HistoryBrowser

• Virtual lego set
• Pieces
• Primary source documents
• Associated data
• Layered visualizations
• Like a GIS? maybe a Phase 2 GIS, or VIS
• Current uses
• Showing
• Inquiring

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Rebus

• Rebus text images
• Long precedent, emphasis on puns

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Rebus tool in PrimaryAccess suite

• Teacher-assigned set of images
• Apply crops
• Compose text

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StoryBoard tool

• Teacher-assigned image set
• Panel-by-panel layout
• Can combine images with actors, props, dialog
  bubbles

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PrimaryAccess Movie Maker

• Created in 2005
• Inspired by creating digital documentaries with
  client-side tools (Moving Image)
• Why not do movie-making online?

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User statistics

• Teachers 2,249
• Students 14,205
• Activities 3,934
• Resources 20,833

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Teachers tools
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Plug-ins PrimarySourceLearning
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Thank you!

• hammond_at_lehigh.edu
• bferster_at_virginia.edu
• meghan_manfra_at_ncsu.edu