Tami Augustine

Project highlights:

• Free, easily accessible and easily edited
• Benefits teachers without proper experience teaching social studies
• Creates an interactive interface and relies heavily on non-text features such as audio and video elements
• Will be created in conjunction with iTunes U for social studies methods for middle childhood education, open to the public

Wider impact:

• Affordable for students and allows them to continue accessing the knowledge after graduation
• Able to be updated with little to no cost, which is essential for the rapidly changing field
• Assists teachers with little or no experience teaching social studies at the 4th and 5th grade level
• Adds to the department’s goals of increasing distance learning