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National History Day:

Tips for the Web Category - Presentation

  1. Why choose a web project?

Web projects allow us to build a narrative that interprets the past by weaving together images, documents, audiovisuals, graphic elements, and other primary and secondary sources.

Thesis driven: Once you have a thesis, state the thesis on the home page and repeatthe concepts that support that thesis on subsequent pages. Images illustrate the main ideas, and captions for those images add additional information.

  1. What a National History Day web project is not
  2. A National History Day web project is NOT
  3. An online text document
  4. An archive of primary sources attached to an essay
  5. So what is a good National History Day Web Project?
  6. A good National History Day project develops a thesis and explains why a subject matters.
  7. A good site MUST be interactive (as a key element of the judging criteria)
  8. It MUST use multimedia as well (another unique element of judging)
  9. A good National History Day WEB project emphasizes relationships among the raw materials of history. The project emphasizes those relationships to construct a historical narrative.
  10. Checklist: Do you have the following?
  11. Thesis (Have a general direction at first, your thesis will develop over time)
  12. Primary Sources
  13. Secondary sources
  14. The raw materials of history
  15. Photos
  16. Audiovisuals
  17. Maps
  18. Timeline
  19. Documents
  20. Artifacts
  21. And more…
  22. Where do I begin?
  23. You need a plan .
  24. How do your resources work together to create a narrative and support your thesis?
  25. Map it out
  26. Define the ideas you want to develop.
  27. Build diagrams
  28. Or
  29. Put each of the elements—text, artifacts, images, graphics—on individual cards. Find a flat surface and move them around until you find the best relationships.
  30. Design Counts
  31. Remember, a web project is a publication.
  32. Every kind of publication is governed by standards and principles of design and presentation.
  33. These standards and principles support and enhance the clarity of any web project, just as they do in text-based, graphic, or exhibition media.
  34. What’s important about design?
  35. The Elements: They should appear on each page in a consistent way
  36. Header
  37. Navigation
  38. Footer
  39. Elements of Design and Layout
  40. Putting them all together is the difficult part. Consider the best style of writing for the web. Look at the…
  41. Hierarchy Font
  42. Color
  43. Spacing
  44. Width of columns
  45. Length of paragraphs
  46. Use of headings and subheadings.
  47. Consistency of it all!
  48. Analyze Visit these sites in order to see how they are organized/function:Analyze the relationships of text, images, objects, graphics—all the elements that comprise the presentations. Explore how the text and images work together
  49. Making the History of 1989:
  50. Gulag:
  51. The Object of History:
  52. The Way They Worked:
  53. Identity by Design: