Digital Storytelling:  Social Studies

Mrs. Howell’s classes used Photostory and Digital Storytelling to highlight World War II book titles.  The projects will open in Photostory 3:

A Boy at War

Diary of Anne Frank

Links to copyright free media.

*If used in research project, images should still be cited.

Photos

• FreeFoto.com – free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures

• Pics4learning – free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures 

• Flickr Creative Commons

• Simple Flickr Search

• Multicolor Search (find pictures with particular colors)

   

• Photo Laboratory

   

• Wikimedia Commons

   

• American Memory

   

• Free Photos Bank

• EduPics (personal and nonprofit use)

• Stock Vault

• Flickr Stock Repository

• PBase World Gallery (amateur photos organized by country)

• NASA Images

• Public Domain Images

• Smithsonian Flickr Stream

• Copyright Free Image links

Clip Art:

• Discovery School’s Clip Art Gallery

• DK Clip art

• Kaboose

• Awesome Clip Art for Educators

• Open Clip Art

• School Clip Art

Background Textures

• Squidfingers Background Patterns
• Absolute Background Textures Archive 
• CG Textures  

 

Music and Audio

• FreePlayMusic
• Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
• Open Source Audio
• Free Music Archive 
• Sound Effects: The Freesound Project
• Absolute Sound Effects Archive
• Singing Fish Audio and Video Search

 

MLA Citation of Sources

The following guide can be viewed and/or printed :

Citation Guide Link

 The following sites can help you cite sources:

http://www.citationmachine.net/

http://www.easybib.com/

http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/

Primary source documents for authentic research: 

Manuscripts

American Journeys – http://www.americanjourneys.org/

National Union catalogue of manuscript collections -http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/   

Photos, Documents, and and Audio:

Library of Congress – Digital Collections

Library of Congress – Virtual Reference links

WDL – World Digital Library

Oral Interviews:

Library of Congress’s American Memory Project

http://memory.loc/gov/ammem/ammemhome.html/

Making of America

http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Government Records:

National Archive of Government Records

http://www.nara.gov/

  
Documents:

AMDOCS – Documents For the Study of American History

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

Chronology of US Historical Documents

University of Oklahoma

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

Primary Source Material Bibliography: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html

The following handouts can help students:

1.  Select important details.

2.  Distinguish between paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting information.

3.  Extract important details from sources and synthesize information from multiple sources.

• Notes from Print Sources

• Keyword Searching Planning Sheet, Notes from Website Handout

• Paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting

Using Online Resources for Research

The following powerpoint teaches search strategies and includes information on how to evaluate Internet sites for bias, accuracy, and reliability:

Powerpoint:  Search Strategies and CARS method for evaluating websites

Linked Activities for Effective Searching

• Cybersmart Keyword Searching Activity

• Keyword Searching Practice 

• Making Search Decisions

• Lesson Treasure or Trash – Evaluating Websites

• Addition Sites for practice

Simple Four Research Model

The Simple Four is a problem-solving research model developed for South Carolina and works with the research and inquiry standard (Standard 6) in the 2007 ELA Academic Standards.

• Simple Four Research Powerpoint

• Simple Four:  Teaching Information Literacy Across the Curriculum

• Each Step Described:  Suggested Activities for Students

• Department of Education Simple Four Scope and Sequence

• Student Search Strategies using Simple Four

Big6 Research Model

• Description of Big6 Research

• Media Center resources on Big6 Research

• Student Handout – Big6 steps

• Questions on Media Center Big6 video

• Big6 Handout – Using Information Model in Real Life Context

General information regarding research process, identifying sources, evaluating materials, copyright/plagiarism, etc:

• Introducing the Research Process Powerpoint

Students recognize due dates, teacher requirements, identifies possible sources, research is more guided and focused

• Planning Sheet handout for students

• Questions to help guide research