This article is about a group of ten 12th grade students in a Oral History of the Holocaust class they use cameras and editing equipment to interview real Holocaust survivors. The students do background research and conduct interviews and then they transcribe the interviews in full text transcript. After that is done the students work on editing the video using computer software. The result at the end of their project is a public website containing the interviews, complete with full text, video, and audio.
I chose this article because it enhances the learning experience especially because their interviewing someone who went through it. In a project like this history become more than just facts in a text book it becomes real and the students feel like their part of their learning experience. The main problem with teaching history is students do not see how it pertains to them and the world they live in but if they get to talk with some one who was actually their than it becomes more than just a story it becomes real and that makes all the difference when it comes to history. This is an A posting.
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