BASED HISTORY: Projects & Cards
In our "Based History" project, human researchers are needed to find nuances: events, artifacts and details of historical eras that are overlooked by textbook and encyclopaedia authors.
With this, the editors of the new Encyclopaedia will control and develop artificial intelligence. To participate in this task, your group must successfully go through trials.
Every fortnight, all the teams receive a set of topics for their research and choose one theme for their project.
The theme is a specific historical era, to which each group creates a pack of cards with associations.
With this, the editors of the new Encyclopaedia will control and develop artificial intelligence. To participate in this task, your group must successfully go through trials.
Every fortnight, all the teams receive a set of topics for their research and choose one theme for their project.
The theme is a specific historical era, to which each group creates a pack of cards with associations.
The pack consists of 10 cards. Each card has two sides: an illustration and a commentary on it.
The most convenient way to create a pack of cards is Google.Slides. You may use this template to create your decks. One slide is used for the illustration, the other slide — for the commentary of the illustration. Thus, each set will include 20 slides.
A card counts if it includes:
The most convenient way to create a pack of cards is Google.Slides. You may use this template to create your decks. One slide is used for the illustration, the other slide — for the commentary of the illustration. Thus, each set will include 20 slides.
A card counts if it includes:
- the illustration itself;
- a description of what is depicted (in English) and its relationship to the era being studied;
- a reference to the source of the image.
An illustration is any image that relates to a historical era and visualises an association with that era.
The image must be:
Consider the following types of illustrations:
The image must be:
- historically accurate,
- suitable for illustrating the era in a serious encyclopaedia,
- taken from a reliable source on the Internet / from literature (books or research articles).
Consider the following types of illustrations:
- ArtDepictions of historical figures / events / places of the past in artistic genres - from painting to sculpture
- PortrayalsDepictions of historical figures / people of the past in any genre - from sculpture to their embodiments in cinema and theatre
- Graphic reconstruction of an event / artifactIt can include historical painting, cultural incarnations
- Objects and artifactsTo characterise the epoch: museum exhibits, archaeological finds, etc.
- MapsThese may include geographical, military, or political maps
- Sites or structuresSpecific places or architectural structures built in a particular era (including scientifically based reconstructions)
- Cultural referencesReferences to people, places, or events related to a specific epochs, including allusions in literature.
The reverse side of each card should include a three-part commentary:
- the title of the image;
- a description of what is depicted (in English) and how it is related to the epoch being studied;
- a reference to the source of the image.
When you have created the pack of cards, you should share a link to Google Slides via the game LMS. Each group will have their own access to this LMS.