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Social and Political History of the 1960s – A website Scrapbook

Taking a historical journey through Australia’s past, you are to design and create a website scrapbook featuring the social and political history of the 1960s.

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Scrapbooks are like photo albums that also have inserts, which include: personal diary or journal items, photographs, newspaper articles, photographs, advertisements, etc. These inserts may be researched and found online, copied and pasted into your scrapbooks.
The scrapbook can be:
A. In digital format (website, blog, online gallery).
The digital format, it must be accessible online by your teacher: How to upload your website to the Internet
then give your teacher the URL or upload your web site folder to the Student S:drive
or
B. Hard copy format (project book or stapled sheets.)

Your Website scrapbook should include items on the following:

·  1960s Social - entertainment, music, sport, homes, fashion, technology, social issues

·  1960s Politics – government, foreign affairs

You will have several lessons using computers. You may bring your school laptop or borrow one from the library.

Date due:
For your website design unit – The 5 Golden Rules!
1. Have your USB ready for the first lesson and bring it to each lesson.
2. Have ALL your website files – web page files and pictures – in the ONE folder.
(You can have sub-folders – one for your pictures and one for your web pages – in this main folder if you wish.)
3. Keep this updated website folder on your USB
plus have a backup copy on another computer.
4. First make a table on each webpage before you paste writing or insert pictures on page.
Put your writing and pictures into the squares (cells) of the table.
5. Remember, to help you position text and pictures, you can insert more tables with extra
squares (cells) into the squares (cells) of the main table on your page.

This page will give you easy to follow instructions on how to use MS Expression web to build your site.
Microsoft Expression Web 4 (Free Version) - the download file indicates it is a trial version. But it is actually the full version Microsoft has released for educational use.

Many sites on the w.w.w. can provide free interesting textured and coloured backgrounds you can use. For example: http://www.grsites.com/archive/textures/
- To SAVE the textured background pictures: right-click on the picture and select "Save Picture As" or "Save Image As" to your web site folder.
Other sites can providesound effects files http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/ and http://www.wavsource.com/ http://www.wavsource.com/
http://www.thefreesite.com/free_sounds/free_wavs/
or gif. animated images, for example: http://madsenworld.dk/index-uk.htm
or for music files: http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/

Research sites:

Video: The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38

1960s | My Place for teachers:http://www.myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1960/decade_landing_4.html

Australian History/1960s:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Australian_History/1960s

1960s - Decade in context, Social and cultural features:

http://tinyurl.com/zfymvxk

5 things women couldn't do in the 1960s:http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/07/living/sixties-women-5-things/

Youtube: Australia in the 1960s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZxHxcO4J4

For background Music:The Unforgettable 60s Hits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNmIO79s6TI