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Making History Ourselves: An Interview with SOS Project Directors

Written by Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
December 20, 2012

digital storytelling ELLs social justice

In this interview, Jane Phelan-Jones, Cameron Shinn, and Diane Witteveld, teacher directors of the Saving Our Stories Project, document what students learned as they composed digital stories to preserve the history of the Latino community in Fort Collins.Open interview with SOS teachers_0.mp3

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  • Keeping It Real: Preservice Teachers Meet the SOS Project
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  • Teaching to Learn: Using Technology Purposefully to Support Student Learning
  • Saving Our Stories: Digital Storytelling with ELLs
  • Making History Ourselves: An Interview with SOS Project Directors
  • Transforming the World One Story At a Time: A Preservice Teacher's Reflection


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