Tell Me Your Story

Oral history is important to our understanding of different cultures and experiences of the past. Oral history unlike written history can capture forever an individual's feelings, expressions, and differences in dialects.

To teach our junior high students the importance of oral history they will be come up with a story that they can share and save using the Flip Video Cameras. Students will select an older family member to interview who has a story to share. Ideas could include but not be limited to: a picture; funny or sad story; or a famous, valuable or sentimental item that has been handed down through the generations.

Students will be given (1) a lesson on the basic care and operation of the Flip Video cameras and its features and options. (2) Simple photographic techniques to take great photos/video. (3) How to download digital photos and video to a computer. (4) Photo editing techniques using the flip video camera's software (5) Ideas and ways to create and share a final product on our website.

State standards involve language-arts skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing