HISTORY AND ICT

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HISTORY AND ICT

• Website Tasks
• The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• You have been studying the Holocaust in your
  History lessons recently
• we are now going to use our ICT lessons to
  consider the portrayal of the Holocaust on the
  Internet

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Task 1 - Objectives

• You must.
• Recall the key features of the persecution of the
  Jews and other minority groups in the Holocaust
• Describe how the Holocaust has been remembered /
  portrayed by different interest groups
• You should
• Explain why there are different interpretations
  of the Holocaust
• You could
• Evaluate the websites and use them critically to
  reach a judgement on how the Holocaust has been
  remembered

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Your Task

• Visit the websites and critically evaluate them
• 1.  What is the address of the site and what does
  this tell you about its content?
• 2. Who is the author of the website and what
  might this tell you about its content?
• 3. Who is the intended audience for the website?
• 4. How is the content presented, both technically
  (hyperlinks, hotspots, etc) and in terms of the
  use of image, colour, font, etc.
• 5. How effective is the website and what
  suggestions would you make for how to improve it?

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Websites

• http//www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
• http//www.ushmm.org/
• http//www.fpp.co.uk/
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4735496.st
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• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4449948.stm

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Task 2 - Objectives

• You must.
• Create a website of at least three linked pages,
  on the subject of the holocaust
• You should
• Ensure that you present your information in an
  appropriate way for your chosen audience and
  include text, image and multimedia elements if
  possible
• You could
• Link your site to other existing websites which
  you have carefully selected

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How your work will be marked

• Level 4
• You can create a three-page hyperlinked website
  which contains some relevant information about
  the topic.
• Level 5
• You create an eye-catching website, containing
  text and images which are appropriate to the
  topic. Your website is aimed at a particular
  audience and is designed to present the content
  in an appropriate way.
• Level 6
• Your website shows a clear sense of audience and
  purpose. It links to external websites and is
  well designed and constructed. You are able to
  use feedback from others to help you improve your
  work and you can justify your choice of content
  and design. You can evaluate the websites used
  in Task One and compare them to your own.