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Preserving local history is not only important to our communities, but also serves as an excellent way to teach and study history. The session will present practical ideas for using technology to gather oral histories and create an online local history museum for your community. We will share the challenges we’ve faced, lessons learned and brainstorm with participants to generate additional ideas. In addition, we will discuss the alignment of these activities with the PA Academic Standards for History and with 21st Century Skills.
 * Designing an Online Local History Museum**

** Collecting Local History Using Oral Interviews  ** ** Why collect local history? ** 1) PA Academic Standards  8.1.12 A Evaluate historical interpretation of events. ·   Impact of opinions on the perception of facts  ·   Issues and problems in the past  ·   Multiple points of view  ·   Illustrations in historical stories and sources ·  Connections between causes and results ·  Author or source of historical narratives’ points of view ·  Central issue 8.1.12B Synthesize historical research. · Historical event (time and place) · Facts, folklore and fiction · Historical questions · Primary sources · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Secondary sources <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Conclusions (e.g., Senior Projects, research papers, debates) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Credibility of evidence 8.2.12B Identify and evaluate primary documents, material artifacts and historic sites important in Pennsylvania history from 1890 to Present. 2) Connection to and involvement of community provides relevance and authenticity to the study of history!  IMPORTANT: This is a work in progress! We don’t have all of the answers yet.   Description ** * Setting up interview <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">   [|www.pclocalhistory.wikispaces.com]  **What worked** - Technology (Audacity / Wikispace accounts)  -Community Liaison helped set up interviews and make contacts - Cooperation of library media specialist
 * Our Project
 * Introducing project and topic to the students (generating questions)
 * Interviewing schedule and structure
 * Technology lesson
 * Creating time logs
 * Class interview via SKYPE
 * Wiki work and audio editing- Basic Facts, Sources of Additional Information, Edited Audio Clips

**Lessons Learned**
 * Set clear and measurable objectives for students and for the project
 * Provide model for students of what end project might look/sound like- create a rubric first
 * Getting them to think and move to higher level of analyzing history was tough!

**Future Plans** - Mobile digital audio recorders for students to check out - Requiring good quality time log when they turn in the interview - Not narrowing the focus to just one event, place or person in local history

**Items to Consider** - Release forms - Copyright - Technological skill of students -Equipment needed -File size, saving and storage - Scheduling of interviews

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