If Stones Could Speak
Project Instructions and Tips
The ultimate goal is to bring life to the stones and artifacts that are located on the Chicago Tribune facade. Visitors to this site will access information created by students that have researched and communicated their findings in first person accounts. This project can take various digital formats that can be accessed from the Internet such as word processor documents, web pages, PowerPoints, movies, audios, Acrobat Reader files, etc. Student can create digital essays, podcasts, and vodcasts, the possibilities are limitless.
Information that could be included:
picture(s) that surround the event (permission must be secured to used copyrighted information.) online request form
basic demographic information
first person accounts describing the historical event
student created illustration(s)
scanned or digital camera picture and/or related graphic (permission must be secured to used copyrighted information.)
two or more related Internet links
credits
name of student, teacher, school, and county
Forms for use during project:
Template
Entry and Request for Information Form - sent to project director
Artifact Digital Data
Sample Rubrics
Web Authoring Software and Tutorials on the Internet
Copyright
Tips:
Have students name their files using the location of the stone: example northcarolina (no spaces)
E-mail files to the project director (glenngurley@gmail.com)
If using multiple files, use software to put all files in a zip file, attach to an e-mail, and submit to a project director.For web page, use web-friendly fonts - Arial is easiest to read.
Participants:
Gaston County Schools - Glenn Gurley*
Mountain View Junior High, Sumner, WA - Teacher - Karen Black
Highland School of Technology, Gastonia, NC - Teacher Roger Hudson - Student Assignment
*Project Director
Completed Projects
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This Page Last Updated
02/03/2008 08:27 AM
