Harpers Ferry Middle School Vodcasts

From 2009 to 2016, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park partnered with Harpers Ferry Middle School in a service learning project in which students created videos about the history of Harpers Ferry.

Park rangers taught students about the history of Harpers Ferry, showed the students where history happened and brought in primary sources, artifacts, and subject matter experts for the students to learn from. Teams of students then picked interesting stories, wrote scripts, scouted locations, picked costumes, acted their scenes on video, and edited the footage.

The videos at the below links are the results of this multi-year partnership. At the bottom of this page are two behind the scenes videos that explain a little more about the service learning project and how the students felt about being part of "vodcast."

We hope you enjoy seeing the efforts and creativity of these students in their local national park.

 

Of the Student, By the Student, For the Student™

• Student Developed Vodcasts Focusing on John Brown

Under Fire! - Student Developed Vodcasts Focusing on the Civil War

• The Election of 1860
• War Comes to Harpers Ferry (1861)
• Prelude to Freedom (1862)
• 1863
• 1864
• 1865

National Park Service Centennial

• 2016

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 44 seconds

This behind the scenes video is from 2009, the first year of the service learning project.

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 17 seconds

In this video HFMS students talk about what they think of the Harpers Ferry NHP / Harpers Ferry Middle School vodcast service learning project.