History+Alive

= History ALIVE - Be a StoryKeeper  =

By saving our stories and the stories of our families, we create a lasting legacy that time will not erase. We ensure that who we are and what we believe in will endure and not be forgotten.

//Interviewing ordinary people - those who live in your neighborhood, older members of your family - is terribly exciting and rewarding. With a few digital tools, young interviewers are able to capture the unofficial, unrecorded history of daily lives in families and communities. And that is the sacred work of being a StoryKeeper//

**Students as StoryKeepers - The Task**
 * Capturing and documenting the lives around us is sacred work - preserving stories is a gift to the storymaker (interviewer) as well as the storyteller (interviewee). Being a story catcher aka reporter is like having a magical passport. It's a license to ask questions, be curious and explore worlds of experiences. But we want students to be more than technical "tape recorders" - we want the investigators to uncover THE story - the one that needs to be told. AFTER the interview, the investigator needs to make meaning of the story they heard. By developing a storyline of THE story that needs to be told, the storymaker can make the interview come ALIVE for others.


 * Create a production piece that makes meaning with these choices:
 * A docudrama (act as IF you were the storyteller -walk in their shoes telling the story w/ lesson learned)
 * A describe and conclude (tell about with wisdom learned or reflective conclusion)

Interview Tips

 * Our Stories Interviewing Questions for Students Collecting Family and Community Stories


 * Collecting Family Stories - Interviewing Questions for Family Stories


 * Collecting Stories of Service Men / Women - Interviewing Questions for Soldiers


 * Be a Personal Historian - Preserving Memories


 * Radio Diaries - Tips for interviewing / capturing unofficial unrecorded history of the ordinary lives in communities
 * Teen Investigative Reporting from Radio Diaries [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://storykeepers.wikispaces.com/file/view/Teen+Investigative+Handbook.pdf"]] [|Teen Investigative Handbook.pdf]


 * Preparing for the Interview (Veterans History Project)


 * How-To Comic Book from AmericanLife ($5.00) Finding stories, interviewing, structuring stories, editing, - everything to get started.


 * Nine Secrets of A Good Interview.
 * Do You Make These Interviewing Mistakes?
 * How to Boost Your Interviewing Skills.
 * Avoid These Three Interviewing Pitfalls.
 * What I’ve Learned About Getting “Truthful” Interviews.

Technical Tips

 * Radio Diaries - Technical Tips

Examples

 * Illinois WWII Project Stories - interviews with WWII Vets were captured using inquiry-based, digital-story telling learning experience that created docudramas AND many enduring relationships. NOTE - scroll to bottom of page to find stories - go past the oddly video of a fireball.


 * Hartland Comes ALIVE - Community Stories via DocuDramas


 * Road She Traveled - a project meant to honor and celebrate the contributions the women in our community have made. These podcast stories are a gift to our generation today, a place for current and future history enthusiasts to learn about the unique and giving women who have helped to build this great city of La Crosse, Wisconsin


 * This American Life - a radio show of everyday lives