Using Audio and Video Documents in History Teaching Angel Yanchev Bulgaria

What do the students want from a history lesson?

What do the teachers want from the students? To know To be able To do Students don’t like reading, they prefer to watch, to listen to, to create…

How to turn a lesson into a “Holywood” production, at least for a while? Power Point Internet Software (free downloaded from various institutional websites) Different sources (documents)

What is a document? The modern understanding of a document is any trace of the past which can be broad and has many forms – on a paper, films, documentaries, tapes, records, CDs, DVDs, etc.

Which are the advantages of an e-document? They are low costed; They have multimedia opportunities; They are easily accessed; They provide interdisciplinary approach.

Why do we have to read a speech of Tito, if we can listen to it or watch it? Foreign policy of the SFRY (Informbiro-1948);

How to teach the students to use critically the information found in internet? They have to check who is the author of the website; They have to find supporting sources of the already found information; They have to situate the document in the relevant historical context; They have to compare it with the knowledge provided by the history textbook.

Where to search for e-documents? About the Soviet Union About documentaries - About Tito – About everything else –

What software do we need? Often a document needs to be worked out. For audio – WavePad For video – VirtualDubMod Other…

How to insert a multimedia file in a presentation? Insert – Movies and Sounds - … from file

The Death of Yugoslavia 1995 Part 1 Enter Nationalism (BBC)

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