The Gilded Age – Class Documentary Project

Instructors:

Rachel Duffy

Marc Ducharme

May, 2005

Project Overview:

1. Show sample Photo Story segment (The Crash and Great Depression)

2. Explain Gilded Age project structure: General overview, Segments, Roles, Assessment

May 25 (Wednesday)

Role Responsibilities

Segment Teams:

1. Type list of roles and the key responsibilities for each of these team roles.

2. Email finished list your instructor before the end of class.

May 26 (Thursday)

Segment Producer:

1. Hold meeting at the end of class to make sure all team members understand folder structure and how to organize materials that will be gathered to produce your segment.

2. Focus on helping to establish consistent communication between your Lead Historian and Media Specialist.

Photo Story Engineer:

1. Begin to learn how use Photo Story, Image Composer, and Fireworks to construct slides for your segment.

2. Understand the process of organizing segment assets into your team folder.

Lead Historian & Media Specialist

1. Begin to research the resources that were provided for your segment topic.

2. Establish a close working relationship where both Media drives information gathering and/or Information drives media gathering.

May 27 (Friday)

Content Outline

Segment Story Board

Segment Producer:

1. Hold a meeting at the start of class to go over the folder storage structure with your team!

2. Emphasize the importance of creating citations for resources that are being used!!

3. Work with Lead Historian and Media Specialist to construct a content outline for your segment.  This outline should detail the topics you will need to include in the segment production process and order them so that the Photo Story Engineer begins to understand the framework for the production.

Example of Content Outline (possible outline for part of segment shown):

TECHNOLOGY (provide intro overview and image collage)

Industrial Revolution

~ Cause(s)

~ Effect(s)

~ Textile Manufacturing

~ Transportation (Steel, Iron, Coal)

Photo Story Engineer:

1. Complete segment structure story board (Title slide, Chapter slides, Resource slide)

2. Save copy in team folder and a backup in your personal network folder!

Media Specialist:

1. Make sure to save a backup of your team's entire segment folder into your personal network folder!

Special: Lead Historian and Media Specialist

Have one (impressive) media artifact ready to share with class and explain its context to the class.  We will finish up the class with these short presentations. It should take no more than one minute for each group.

May 31 (Tuesday)

Content Outline

Segment Story Board

Transfer tasks that we set for last Friday to today for completion. 

Some questions at this point:

Segment Producer: are you keeping track of team performance in some way?  Also, are you reinforcing the importance of citing resources as the Media Specialist and Lead Historian gather information assets?

Media Specialist: are you making a back-up of your groups folder in case something happens to the original?

Photo Story Engineer: have you talked with the Media Specialist about the cataloging of information and media assets that you will have to draw from the team's folder to start putting your segment together?

Special: Lead Historian and Media Specialist

Have one (impressive) media artifact ready to share with class and explain its context to the class.  We will finish up the class with these short presentations. It should take no more than one minute for each group.  Be ready to present by 9:00 am

(Huck Discussion)

Continue to conduct research and media collection that helps to express key aspects of your segment.

Segment Producer

Content Outline is due today.

Email a copy to Mr. Arnold before leaving class today (mark.arnold@morrisville.org)

Photo Story Engineer

You should feel completely at home with producing content slides for your segment.  If you have questions about using Photo Story, creating and saving slides, etc.  Ask them!

Lead Historian and Media Specialist

Some things to consider in terms of hitting the mark with your segment presentation:

1. Are you truly learning (researching and investigating) the topics that are part of your segment... don't forget the point is to educate others in the class about your topic perspective relating to the Gilded Age.  To do a good job of this you really need to learn about yourself.  Make sure you share information with your team as you go along.  Think of it like you are mining knowledge about your subject.  You have to know a subject well to engage others with learning about it.

2.  Is your information starting to come toward a "flow" that resembles a good story?  Most people will be asleep quickly if your segment is a bunch of facts. 

* Go over tentative schedule for remainder of project

Reading: Summary Gilded Age

Thinking: