1968+Olympic+Black+Power+Protest

1968 Olympics Black Power Protests

While everyone on the group is ultimately responsible for producing the digital story, please choose the roles that you will each also fulfill in your group.


 * Role || Description/Responsibilities || Group Member ||
 * Director || The organizer, task master and person in charge of the creative vision. ||  ||
 * Writer || After everyone contributes information, the writer synthesizes the content and writes it out coherently. ||  ||
 * Visual editor || After everyone contributes pictures, the visual editor chooses those that best fit content and meaning. ||  ||
 * Storyboard editor || After the pictures are chosen and the content is written, but storyboard editor creates the storyboard. ||  ||
 * Sound editor || Contributes to the storyboard and edits the music in the digital story. ||  ||

 Remember, as you research, these are the questions you need to be thinking about: Essential Question : How to humans respond to injustice? Unit Questions:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What makes people feel powerless or threatened?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Why do some people respond with anger/violence, while others respond peacefully?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What specific violent and peaceful responses were evident in the United States in the 1960s?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What were the effects of each of these responses both short-term and long-term?

<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Content Questions:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What caused the “black power" protests at the 1968 Olympics? Which athletes were involved? What different ways did they protest? What happened to the athletes who took part?

<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Collecting Information

Collect your group information in this area. Each time you add information, please put your initials in front of the information. Also, don't forget to add citations to your information so that you can create your group Work Cited list later. For example:

(FP) " On October 17, 1968, Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos are forced to return their awards because they raised their fists in a black-power salute during the medal ceremony." <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[]

Collecting Pictures Collect your project pictures in this area. First, save the pictures to your student server space if you are at school. Then, upload the picture by following this procedure:

1. Click on the "Edit" button in the upper right-hand corner. 2. Click on the "File" button on the Editor bar. 3. Click on the "+Upload Files" button. 4. Browse to wherever you are keeping the pictures (i.e. digital storytelling folder on your server, etc) and click on the actual picture 5. The program uploads the files into a "file manager" space. You now need to click on the name of the picture for it to be uploaded into this page.