Read: Using Primary Sources on the Internet to Teach and Learn History (2000) by Deanne Shiroma http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/digest.htm#newdigs   Teaching Social Studies with the Internet (1999) by C. Frederick Risinger http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/digest.htm#newdigs

An oral history project is about a living person's life or part of that person's life. The primary source is the person you interview.

You should:

1. Decide who you will study or what event in that person's life you will study.

2. Be able to provide an argument about how studying that person or event is a part of social studies.

3. Identify questions that you will ask during your interview of this person.

4. Interview your source.

5. Analyze the information you have collected.

6. What have you learned about this person or that event in your interviewee's life?

7. Decide how to present what you have found to our class.

8. Develop presentation.

9. Present.

Prepare an 1-page overview of your project that includes:

a) a description of your project and what you learned, b) how you could use this approach in teaching elementary social studies, c) how and why you chose your interviewee, d) how you collected the data, e) how you thought about analyzing the data, and f) what were you able to learn in the analysis of the data and what questions remained.

Oral History Sites:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/educational/yag/yaghow.html

http://www.doingoralhistory.org/

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/

http://www.oralhistory.unsw.edu.au/survey.htm

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/oral/offsite.html