Alexandra Jule's List: Annotated Bibliography

The Oral History Association of Australia website provides infromation about the keeping, using and other general information about oral histories and how they can be implemented into everyday life. The webiste provides archived and current journals about oral histories to keep viewers informed as well as membership options and recent publications. The website is easy to access and use and provides all the necassary information to viewers. 4.5/5 Star Rating.

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Wikipedia provides viewers with an easy to understand defintion on what an oral history is, as well as some bonus information about famous people asociated with oral histories and information about the modern traditon of oral histories. This can be used as a good introductory tool to inform students about oral histories but does not provide indepth information. 3.5/5 Star Rating.

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This government education document provides teachers with Queensland Syllabus Guidlines and Queensland Essential Learning based tasks that requires students to use technology to solve a task or problem in society. This rich task incorporates multiple technology based pedagogies that require students to collect and display oral history data. This pdf file provides teacher hints, ways to implement the task into the classroom and how it can cross paths with other subjects. 5/5 Star Rating.

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This websites provides viewers with information about the Queensland Museum. As a museum is a place to hold collections of history and can be a great way to show students about what type of histories are kept at museums, such as oral, written, video and objects of history. This may be used to set up an excursion to the museum so students can witness first hand how a museum works and what kind of history it holds. 4/5 Star Rating.

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The collection of histories usually requires recording interviews. This website provides simple guidines for recording an interview that can be easily understood by students so they are able to follow adequetely. The website also provides teachers with a complete unit of work to do with oral histories that can be adapted and implemented into the classroom. 4/5 Star Rating.

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This website provides viewers with a breif but detailed description on how to record a phone interview. This webiste is extremely beneficial as it not only tells you how to record your phone interview, but it also provides the requred software to be used. It suggests using particular software to record your phone interview that enables the recorder to save the data and convert it to an MP3 file, which makes it available to use with many other applications. 4/5 Star Rating.

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This website provides an extensive collection of historical data with the main sources being photographs and text records. It allows the viewer to browse many themed sections that contain multiple forms of historical elements. This can be a great educational resource for teacher to allow students to browse and discover what kind of historical data can be kept and how it is arranged in themes, or by types such as photographs or texts.

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This YouTube clip provides an excellent oral history recount by a soldier in World War 2. He tells of his adventures of the war and what he saw and accomplished providing an insightful look into the historical events that transired. This can be a wonderful clip to show students how an oral history works, and why it is important in holding onto the past. 4/5 Star Rating.

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This YouTube clip shows the historical timeline of Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the worlds most famous video games. This can be a wonderful resource to show children about the collection of historical data, and ways it can be displayed. By using something they can relate to, such as a video game, this will get the children interested and involved, aiding the learning of the students. 4.5/5 Star Rating.

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This YouTube clip shows the historical timeline of technology from the 20th century to the current day. It displays the data through photographs as well as written information. This is a great way to show students about the history of technology and relate it to the subject being taught, as well as the topic being covered within that particular subject. 5/5 Star Rating.

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The Assessment Bank is a Queensland Authority Teacher Tool. It is a database of teacher resources and assessment pieces that incorporate the Queensland Essential Learnings and other vital government documents in its vast amount of teacher resources. This Unit Plan is based on the Queensland Rich Task - Oral Histories. 5/5 Star Rating

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This government document is a necessary inclusion when planning or conducting a unit in Queensland Schools. It provides all the vital information for teachers about what students should be learning, and what they should be able to accomplish by the end of year sevn in the subject of technology. This important guideline is used in the oral history unit plan from the QSA Assessment Bank and should be apparent in all forms of Queensland learning and teaching. 5/5

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Yahoo! Answers is an extremely popular blogging site that answers questions that people ask with viewer responses that are voted on by other viewers. This can be a great tool for students to collaborate ideas with a teacher or fellow students, or gain answers from people all over the world. This is an excellent teacher resource that can be implemented into the classroom and used for many forms of technology tasks as well as tasks from other subject areas. 4.5/5 Star Rating.

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This website provides answers to the question, "Why is history important?" as well as multiple resources following many of the worlds most famous historical events and people. This site is a great way to show students what type of histories have shaped the world we live in today and why history is so important in our current society. This is also a great resource for teachers as it provides many varied resources that can be implemented into the classroom. 4/5 Star Rating.

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Skype is a wonderful way to connect the world through our voices. Students can use this revolutionary technology to record telephone interviews with people who are in other states or countries broadenning their knowledge and communication base. This can be a wonderful tool in the classroom to try and include guest speakers who are not able to attend physically, but through this voice technology are still able to be included into lessons. 5/5 Star Rating.

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This website is an effective and valuable tool associated with educating students about oral histories and other forms of communication and interviews. This site follows primary school students conducting their own oral history assignment and their learning experiences and outcomes they accomplish along the way. This can be shown to students to demonstrate how oral histories can be connected from the classroom to the real world. 4.5/5 Star Rating.

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This site is a wonderful technological resource for both teachers and students. It provides viewers with solid information about oral histories and how to complete them with on-line workshops, as well as providing current and archived oral histroy projects and classroom activities. This technology based education resource can be implemented into the curriculum and is able to be used effectively by students and teachers. 4.5/5 Star Rating.

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This site gives a detailed description on how to edit audio files using the software program 'Audacity.' It provides valid information about making your audio recordings sound more professional and flowing. Using this blogging site in accordince with the Audacity Software, students can learn technologically how to edit and improve audio recordings. 4.5/5 Star Rating

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Audacity is a free, dowloadable, software that edits audio recordings. This site provides all the necessary information about the software as well as accessable links to wiki pages to teach new users how to use the technology software. This is an excellent technological resource for students who are recording audio files and need to edit them. 5/5 Star Rating.

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Garageband is popular software used on Mac Computers. This software allows you to record music and create music files, as well as editing audio tracks and files. This site provides all necessary information about the product as well as online videos to aide with learning the features of the product. This is an excellent technological resource for students that can liven up their audio recordings. 5/5 Star Rating.

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