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peter hillis &
drew calderhead
Ruled by the Seasons
Program Aims
This program is the eighth in a series produced on themes within Scottish History. Other programs
include Doon the Watter, Auld Reekie and the Dear Green Place and Barnhill. Ruled by the
Seasons is partly based on the Journal kept between 1879 and 1892 by James Wilson, a farmer in
Banffshire which provides an unusual and detailed insight into life in rural Scotland. The Journal
is available from the Scottish History Society http://www.scottishhistorysociety.org/ The program
allows pupils to investigate life in rural Scotland in the late nineteenth century, but opens into
an examination of food production past and present. There are many links to A Curriculum from
Excellence ranging from the local and Scottish dimensions to the learning tasks. These links are
outlined in the Teacher Notes.
Classroom Applications
The program has been written for pupils in upper primary and lower secondary although parts, for
example the census database, would be relevant to other year groups. The program can be used
flexibly from providing the central resource on life in rural Scotland to part of a unit examining
where food comes from. Anchored in History, it nevertheless supports a very wide range of cross
curricular work including geography, mathematics, creative and aesthetic, science, technology and
language. In addition to providing a multimedia resource, the program helps pupils develop their
own ICT skills by, for example, creating their own movie of the farming year from archive film
clips held on the CD ROM
Acknowledgements
In addition to the acknowledgements listed at the end of the program, the authors would like to
thank the following organisations and people for their help in the production of the CD ROM:
Sheila Smith, Lesley Mair and the pupils of Fordyce Primary School who trialled the program
along with Claire Boyd, Linda Trainor and the Primary 7 pupils of St. Joseph’s Primary
School in Helensburgh:
Bob Munro, Reader in Computer Education, University of Strathclyde, for his help and support:
Elspeth Donaldson who typed the text;
The Arts and Humanities Research Council for supporting the development, trialling,
production and distribution;
Mrs Edith Lowrie for providing the manuscript of her grand-father’s Journal.
System Requirements
Apple Macintosh
Power Macintosh G3 running OS 10.1.5,
10.2.6, 10.3 for DVD playback, 128 MB
RAM
Power Macintosh G3 , OS 9.2, 64 MB RAM
QuickTime 5.x or greater;
CD-ROM drive (4 x speed or quicker
preferred);
Colour Printer (optional);
15 inch colour monitor or larger. For best
results the monitor should be set at 1000s
colours.
Windows
Windows 98, Pentium II, 64MB
Windows 2000, Pentium III, 128MB
Windows XP, Pentium III, 128MB
QuickTime 5.x or greater;
CD-ROM (4 x speed or quicker preferred);
Sound Card;
Colour Printer (optional);
Colour monitor SVGA with 16-bit (hi- colour)
display or better.
installation:
Installation:
Open the CD ‘Ruled by the Seasons’ and open
‘Copy Choice to Hard Disc’ folder. Copy the
folder corresponding to your operating system
to your Hard Disc. Open your chosen folder
and run ‘Ruled by the Seasons’. If QuickTime
is not present, double click the relevant
QuickTime Installer on the CD.
Installation:
Open the CD ‘Ruled by the Seasons’.
Double click ‘Barnhill Setup.exe’ and
follow the instructions. The ‘Ruled by the
Seasons’ program will be automatically
installed in your Programs menu, and a
shortcut will be placed on the desktop. If
QuickTime is not present, double click the
‘QuickTime6lnstaller.exe’ and follow the
instructions.
N.B. Run the ‘Ruled by the Seasons’ program only ONCE, on some machines, the opening sequence may be
slow to play/load and double clicking it a further time will load a second occurrence of the program.