Virtual Museum – Popular Culture - Decades Study
(There is an online version of this assignment sheet so you can click the
hyperlinks – see your school intranet /History/ Web lessons 2 - No.49)
Task: In small groups create a Virtual Museum about the Popular Culture of two
Australian Decades.
You can use the template of a virtual museum made with PowerPoint provided
below. Or you can first make your own template of a virtual museum using the Google slides app.
Watch this youtube clip at home or in class to see how to use the PowerPoint template of a virtual museum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORut3s7osus
PowerPoint Virtual museum template: GrandEntryVirtualMuseumTemplate.ppt by Christy Keeler
Or you can instead, make your own new virtual museum template with Google Slides instead of just PowerPoint.
If made with Google slides, you will be able to click the ‘share’ button and get a URL (internet address) that you
can share with the other members of your group so they can be working on different rooms in the virtual
museum. Your museum will be stored for free for you in ‘the cloud’.
When using Google Slides click ‘Insert’ and use ‘Shapes’ to make ‘Arrows’ and ‘text box’ and ‘Link’ to make
hyperlinks to your different slides/ Gallery rooms or picture information slides. Click ‘Format’ and ‘Fill Colour’ to
colour your arrows etc.
To access Google Slides on your DEC account, open your DEC Student Portal account, click to open your email and
then click the 9 small black dots on the top right of the screen
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Any Google Slides or Docs you make will be automatically saved in your Google Drive
This is an example of a virtual museum made with the Google slides app: http://goo.gl/qP57gj
Watch the video on this following site to see how to use the Google Slides app to make a virtual museum:
https://davidleeedtech.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/virtual-museums-with-google-slides-presentation/
Instructions
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The date this should be completed and presented to the class is: ____________
Have a copy of your virtual museum on a USB or if using Google slides app type the URL of your museum into
the class PC when you present it to the class.
To get the background pictures for your virtual museum foyer, Google image search with words like: ‘
historic buildings foyer’ or ‘Moscow underground’ etc. Also something like ‘museum gallery wall’ will give
you pictures you can use for the different rooms in your virtual museum.
You can use https://goo.gl/ just paste in your URL address and it will give you a much shorter version.
Also in the Curators section of your virtual museum, enter your own names.
Exhibits: Make notes from your internet research and text books. Remember to record and cite the sources you use.
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You could include pictures, diagrams, maps, information and primary and secondary Sources, etc
Your 5 or 6 rooms in the museum should include exhibits on the following aspects of two decades:
The impact or effects of the changing technology on everyday life in post-war Australia in the following areas:
(you might cover 2 or 3 areas in the one gallery) Housing, home appliances, transport, communications.
The social and cultural features of the post-war decade including: (you might cover 2 or 3 areas in the one gallery)
fashion, music, entertainment, sport, British or American influences on popular culture.