WWI
Library of Congress
Documentary Project
Onalaska Middle School
Onalaska, WI, USA

Browse the Veterans History Project Collection at the Library of Congress web site at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/html/search/search.html

A.  Check the World War I in the LIMIT BY CONFLICT OR ERA Search Screen.

B.  Select YES at the DIGITIZED COLLECTION Box (or VIEW A DIGITAL COLLECTION once in the entire collection) for primary documents like memoirs, interviews, journals, letters, etc.

1.  Choose a narrative and select passages to read aloud as narration for your documentary. Limit your recorded narrative to 2:00.

2.  Return to the DIGITAL COLLECTIONS for images to save and include as visual support of your chosen narrative.  (Always collect the source names and dates so you can give credit where credit is due.)

3.  Save your images into the folder labeled for your class on your group's iMac.

4.  Using iMovie, dictate your chosen narrative into iMovie software.  (Technical Tip: Shorter selections of narration can be recorded and assembled with iMovie rather than trying to record a longer passage). Save your iMovie project in the folder for your group frequently as you work.

5.  Import your saved images into iMovie to accompany your narrative.  Make sure you add titles over the images to indicate as many of the 5W's as you can about the picture you could learn from the LOC Collection.

6.  Remember to FREQUENTLY SAVE your iMovie to your group's folder on your group's iMac as you work on it.

7.  When you are finished with the documentary, share your completed documentary to Quick Time in the CD-ROM setting.

8.  Include all members of your project in the production of the documentary.  Indicate the roles played by the group members with a tasteful and brief list of credits.  (Absolutely no bloopers allowed; this is a serious matter of historic significance to our nation's history, and it deserves utmost respect and reverence.)


Resources:  WWI Links (images, maps, speeches, etc.), WWI The Great War (more links), Western Front Assoc. US Branch (US in WWI links),

Documentary Quick Time videos due (saved in your group's folder) at the end of the period on Friday.







http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/html/search/search.html