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The Digital Commmonwealth team have been working on producing a resource which helps people develop digital storytelling skills. The handbook is intended for use by the participants of the project,... 
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Considered to be one of the best British adverts ever made, and uploaded in HD, unlike the other uploads. Created by Rattling Stick with post production by T...
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This ad is a historical narrative which captures change and continuity, significance, cause and effect very nicely.
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July 28, 2013 10:49 PM
So many possibilities -create timelines with dipity.com 
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August 3, 2015 9:13 PM
This ad is a historical narrative which captures change and continuity, significance, cause and effect very nicely.
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Digital stories help students construct a narrative around events and people. This website offers practical advice and tools for teachers to use in the classrom.
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A practical guide for constructing digital stories.
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August 3, 2015 9:13 PM
A practical guide for constructing digital stories.
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Digital Storytelling lesson plans and materials.
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Today marks the start of National Heritage Week – a time to celebrate Australia’s unique and fascinating heritage. We are kicking off the festivities by presenting new 3D data from Fort Lytton, one... Via Maree Whiteley
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October 25, 2013 2:53 AM
Past - Present - Future...History and Geography working together!
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October 25, 2013 2:56 AM
Geography meets History...past, present, future! 
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October 25, 2013 4:32 PM
Interesting form of mapping the ancient world
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The culmination of my quest for more powerful learning grounded in theory and research came when recently I conducted an experiment in pushing constructionism into the digital age.
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Drawing on educational research, this article opens up new ways of thinking about learning.
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Organising time requires abstract thinking for young children.
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September 12, 2014 1:15 AM
A timeline is a graphical representation of related items or events in sequential order and displayed along a line. Children need the opportunity to develop an understanding of this abstract notion through concrete and personal experiences.
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A classroom teacher talks about how the process of digital storytelling helped immerse her students in the past as they learnt about colonial times.
Education Creations's curator insight,
June 5, 2014 9:13 PM
This site is a good example of how to use a digital story telling tool in your history classroom.
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The purpose of this interactive online game is to develop historical literacy. Desgined for middle school students, it shows what life was like in America in the early 1900s.
Education Creations's curator insight,
June 5, 2014 9:16 PM
A game designed to develop historical literacy. Specifically created for American students it still is a lot of fun.
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Historical narratives are a powerful and effective way to develop historical understanding in young children. To help students create historical narratives, Barton & Levstik (2005) suggest the following questions: 1. What would you need to know in order to write this story? 2. Where would you find the necessary information? 3. Could this story be told from different points of view? 4. In what ways might this story have been different had it been set in our time and place?
Adapt some of the ideas in this TED talk to help students create an historical narrative.
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This online website is an archive of films, pictures and documents from around the world that were believed to be lost. There are a number of films from Australia dating from 1900s.
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Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going beyond previous augmented reality, their "auras" can do everything from making a painting talk to overlaying live news onto a printed newspaper.
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The affordances of this technology for bringing historical images or documents "to life" are boundless. Here are just a couple of hyperlinks for different augmented reality apps: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/aurasma-lite/id432526396?mt=8 http://www.aurasma.com/#/partner
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August 31, 2014 10:48 PM
Catherine Smyth's insight: The affordances of this technology for bringing historical images or documents "to life" are boundless.Here are just a couple of hyperlinks for different augmented reality apps: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/aurasma-lite/id432526396?mt=8 http://www.aurasma.com/#/partner Thanks Kate :-)
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A presentation explaining how I used QR codes to stimulate oral storytelling in my primary classroom.
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There is lots of potential in using QR codes to teach history. For example, students could create a QR code when analysing an artefact or to record and present information about objects in a museum. Julian Hood, a primary teacher in the UK, explains what QR codes are and shows how he has used them in a primary classroom.
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Create a historical narrative using digital stories. Consider the substance of the story as well as technical aspects using a storyboard to plan.
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Create QR codes (or get students to create a code) for artifacts or documents about a history topic. This site has links to different apps and a template for tracking QR codes.
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Different from other presentation apps, 30hands Mobile focuses on the power of storytelling. Like pages in a book, photos or images are dragged around the desktop into the order of the story. Next, the teacher or student records audio over each image. Finally, the story or presentation can be published to the device’s photo area or uploaded to a 30hands collaborative learning site. Via Baiba Svenca
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June 9, 2013 10:25 AM
Very easy to use with elementary grade students. 
Samantha Ellis's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 7:23 PM
This is fabulous, Could be a valuable source for all levels of learners, easy to use and could help establish new ideas.
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Examples of student claymations created in Frames in Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and more.
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Create a historical narrative using claymation. This website features practical information and tips.
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This interactive timeline technology allows you to create a mashup using maps, text, video and pictures.
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May 27, 2013 8:55 PM
Create a story of Australia's history using this online interactive timeline technology that allows you to combine maps, photos, video and text.
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MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history. - See more at: http://mapstory.org/#sthash.LOS4Q20k.dpuf
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A practical guide to using Claymation in the primary classroom. Use Claymation to develop an historical narrative. Students can recreate historical biographies or historical stories using historical data.
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Primary students LOVE claymation. Claymation is an animation using characters made out of clay. It is a hands-on and engaging activity that is especially useful in teaching history.
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This Canadian resource explores how innovative technologies can be used across a range of curriculum areas.
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The 5th Grade teacher on this website uses 'Voicethread' with historical photographs. Click on the video "Ellis Island" to see how primary students build a historical narrative around a visual image. Voice thread transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
Don't underestimate the importance of historical language in developing historical understanding. Provide opportunities for students to expand their historical vocabulary and to use language for a variety of purposes. Young students need explicit instructions for when and how to use conventions of language.
Husbands (1996) identifies different types of historical language including: 1. The language of the past (e.g. convict, First Fleet, monarchy, revolution) 2. The language of historical time (century, period, modern, decade) 3. The language of historical processes (cause, chronology, similarity, difference) 4. The language of historical description and analysis (revolution, monarchy, democracy)
Use 'Word Walls' or word charts to help students keep track of information and terminology that is used in a Unit of Work and keep adding new words.
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June 5, 2014 9:05 PM
Use Voicethread and historical photographs to create digital historical narratives. Much more engaging than the written version.
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Gone are the days when PowerPoint was your only option for presenting material. Today, there are lots of web 2.0 tools out there to make presentations fun and engaging. Popular tools like Glogster allow manipulation of images, animations, and other graphics to make digital "posters," and I feel like there's a new web-based image editing tool popping up every day. Surely one of these image editors could be harnessed to create a digital poster for free, right? Via Maree Whiteley
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May 27, 2013 7:33 PM
I think this is a great Web 2.0 tool. Students will have a wonderful time making their visual presentations more interesting. |
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My background is in primary teaching but a recent shift to higher education has ignited a passion for research. I love thinking about how people learn and the role that technology might play in this. I'm very interested in historical thinking in K-6.
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