1. USING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH WORLD WAR II Kevin Brown EDU504 www.angelfire.com/ planet/krbrown 6/13/06

2. INTRODUCTION History can be boring if all the student does is memorize names and dates! Technology allows students to hear from people who actually participated in history. True stories from history help students make a more personal connection to the material.

3. THE HOLOCAUST At www.HolocaustSurvivors.org students can watch interviews with six different people who escaped the Nazis.www.HolocaustSurvivors.org Transcripts of the interviews contain hyperlinked pictures and vocabulary which lead to additional information.

4. Scanned example of hyperlink!

5. D-DAY INVASION At PBS’ D-Day site, http://www.pbs.org/w gbh/amex/dday/tguid e/index.html students can read first hand accounts of the invasion. http://www.pbs.org/w gbh/amex/dday/tguid e/index.html

6. PEARL HARBOR At the website for the movie Pearl Harbor students can watch interviews from WWII veterans who were there on December 7, 1941.website for the movie Pearl Harbor Students can watch an interactive multimedia film about the Pearl Harbor attack at National Geographic’s website: http://plasma.nationalgeographic.c om/pearlharbor/ http://plasma.nationalgeographic.c om/pearlharbor/

7. THE ATOMIC BOMB At this Scholastic website, http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/hiroshima/in dex.htm students will meet Francis Tomosawa, who watched the atomic bomb fall on his home city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/hiroshima/in dex.htm

8. IN THE END... By fostering a more personal connection to history, teachers challenge students to think more deeply about their own character, compelling them to look inward and make decisions about what they would do if placed in similar circumstances (click the student to hear Kevin).