Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
Family Tree Project- ACADEMIC
You will follow these steps to create a multi-media family tree.
FAMILY TREE
Build a tree using myheritage.com. Your tree will need to include people and dates.
People (Goal of at least 5 generations.)
Optional:
 You & Your Siblings
 Uncles/Aunts
 Parents
 Cousins
 Grandparents
 Nieces/Nephews
 Great grandparents
 Etc.
 Great-great-grandparents
Dates:
Births & Deaths
Optional:
The program provides you with many options to add additional details. I encourage you
to add other significant events and details to relative’s entries such as marriages,
baptisms, and graduations and the locations of these events.
INTERVIEW:
There are two directions you can take the interview. Both should begin with a clear
introduction from you.
Option 1: Record ALL conversations about the family tree in Garage Band. Focus on the
building of the family tree and get a few short stories about people on the tree.
Examples:
Your Mom telling you about her birth date and place or her wedding date and location.
Your grandfather telling you dates and names for your great-great grandparents.
Your aunt showing you family photos and explaining who is who.
Option 2: Focus more on family stories than the genealogy. Begin with a brief introduction
using shots of the family tree but focus on the interviewee.
Examples:
Your parents telling you about their favorite memory of you as a child.
Your grandparents telling you about their childhood and their parents.
Your uncle telling you about one of your parents when they were children.
The best projects are often a combination of Option 1 & 2.
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Scan family photographs you have access to into the computer. Be sure to label them so you
can identify the people later.
Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
ENHANCED PODCAST:
Merge all these elements and record any additional narrative that is necessary. Add music
if you wish. Family tree must also be uploaded and submitted the same day as the podcast.
Final project will include:
 Screen shots of the family tree (use Grab)
 Family photographs
 Audio from interviews
 Your audio
 Music (optional- no lyrics)
DUE DATE:
This project is due no later than Friday, April 1. If you turn it in by 3:00 PM on Friday,
March 25 you are eligible for 5 bonus points if the project is turned in complete. Incomplete
projects will not be given bonus points.
Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
Family Tree Podcast- Rubric
ACADEMIC
Family Tree/
Excellent (10)
Podcasting
Elements
Introduction
-Tells the audience
what to expect in the
podcast.
-Tells who is
speaking
-Gives the date
-Gives the location
Name_________________________________
Good (8)
Is missing at least 2
of the elements
needed in the
introduction:
-What to expect
-Who is speaking
-Date
-Location
Images
-The images used are -Timing of the audio
Family Tree,
relevant to the
and images is not
Photographs, Other speaker, match what synchronized
Relevant Images
is being said in the
-The images are
podcast, and
unclear or need to be
synchronize
with
the
resized
x2
audio
Audio and Music
-Speech is easily
-Some parts need to
heard and makes
be rerecorded to
sense.
give them better
- A logical order of
sound.
information is given - A logical order of
that follows the
information is given
introduction.
that follows the
- Music (if used) is
introduction.
ducked, is
-Sound levels need
instrumental only,
to be adjusted.
and adds to the
-Need to duck music
mood of the podcast.
Information
- Makes sense
- Some detailed
- Keeps to the topic
information is
as introduced
included for one
- Gives some
individual
interesting details
- More information is
about some
needed to provide
individuals
family history
Poor (6)
Is missing more than
2 of the elements
needed in the
introduction:
-What to expect
-Who is speaking
-Date
-Location
- Images are
irrelevant to audio
- Images are missing
- Color and font
choices make images
hard to see
- Is hard to hear
- - A logical order of
information is not
apparent
- Background noises
need lowering or
omitting
- Needs to duck
music
-Music includes
lyrics
- Needs more
information added
- No details on any
family member are
included
Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
Interview (s)
Time:
Family Tree
x3
-Questions are
-Questions only
-Needs to ask
relevant to the
address the family tree questions that do not
building of the family and no additional
have yes or no
tree OR
information/stories are answers
-Open-ended
told
-Needs to stay on
questions draw
-Questions are off topic topic
interesting and
-Needs more
relevant information
information
from the interviewee
-Follow up questions
are relevant
-The interview
sounds like a
conversation
You will be awarded 1 point for each minute of your podcast up to 10
minutes/points.
-Family tree has at
least 5 generations. -All generations are
labeled with first and
last names.
-All generations are
labeled with birth &
death dates.
-Family tree has at
least 4 generations. Some generations are
labeled with first and
last names.
-Some generations are
labeled with birth &
death dates.
-Family tree has 3 or
fewer generations.
-Not all generations
are labeled with first
and last name.
-Not all generations
are labeled with birth
and death dates.
A pdf copy of
family tree is
due the same
day as the
podcast- upload
this.
Rubric modified from Podcasting Rubric www.beaut.org.au/podcastrubric3.pdf
and Rcampus http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?sp=true&code=R334B9&
Comments:
Total: _________________/100
Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
Turning in Your Family Tree (Myheritage.com piece)
Once you have entered all of your family data into myheritage.com you will create a chart,
save the PDF, and upload the PDF to Moodle. There are many choices for creating charts.
Pick from one of the following two: All-in-One (if you added sisters, brothers, cousins,
aunts, uncles, etc) or Ancestors (if you added only parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents, etc.)
Option 1 If you added aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
Charts & BooksSelect the following options for each step
1) All-in-one
2) your choice
3) main person should have your name; create an appropriate title; for “Facts for
Individuals” choose “Date and Place of Birth and Death”; Show all generations; printing
method-single page
Click- Generate Chart It may take some time to process, the more information, the more
time it will take.
Open PDF & save copy to your computer with appropriate file name.
Upload this PDF to Moodle with your podcast.
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Option 2 If you only went back- ie: parents, grandparents, etc
Charts & BooksSelect the following options for each step
1) Fan chart (ancestors)
2) your choice
3) main person should have your name; create an appropriate title; for “Facts for
Individuals” choose “Date and Place of Birth and Death”; Show all generations; printing
method-single page
Click- Generate Chart It may take some time to process, the more information, the more
time it will take.
Open PDF & save copy to your computer with appropriate file name.
Upload this PDF to Moodle with your podcast.
Adelaide T. Peters
Kutztown Area High School
How to Export Your Podcast from GarageBand
When you are finished creating your podcast in Garage Band follow these steps to save
your project as a .m4a.
File --> Save
Share--> Export Podcast to Disk
AAC
Spoken podcast
set artwork should be checked
name your file--> your name family tree (be sure you pay attention to where it saves)
file should be a .m4a
When all these steps have been completed you should upload your podcast to Moodle. File
limit is 100MB.
If you want to check to make sure everything is okay it is a good idea to view your file. Your
computer will want to play it in iTunes, you can also see what your final product looks like
by viewing it in Quicktime.