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Grandparents Life Story Project

Use smartphones to combine photos of grandparents at different ages to tell life stories

Life stories are the best teaching materials. This project uses the shooting and synthesis functions of smartphones to allow grandparents to show the process and emotions of growing up from youth to old age. Create the values ​​of interviewing, composing, writing, publishing, exhibition, and digital application for school children as well as reading life, respecting the value of old age.

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Overview

HundrED shortlisted this innovation

HundrED has shortlisted this innovation to one of its innovation collections. The information on this page has been checked by HundrED.

Web presence

2022

Established

100

Children

1

Countries
Target group
Students upper
Updated
June 2024
I hope that school children can acquire the concepts of understanding life, respecting elders, and cherishing time, and that through interactions with grandparents, family affection can be enhanced. We also hope that they will learn digital applications, interviewing and editing skills; publishing and exhibition planning, and promote the learning of skills outside the subject.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

This project uses image synthesis to allow the grandparents of school children who have spanned half a century to use their own interactions with time as examples. Through the students' own creations, they can understand the meaning of the passage of time and integrate the gaps between the two generations, thereby creating a harmonious society. and drive learning motivation.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

This innovative project allows school children to create their grandparents’ life stories through images, thereby bridging the gap between the two generations. In practical terms, school children must obtain photos of their grandparents when they were young 50 years ago, and take photos of their grandparents now through smartphones, and combine the two into the same image. The two images spanning half a century must be consistent with each other. interacted with. In addition to the creation of pictures, school children must learn the knowledge and abilities of digital applications through the processes of interviewing stories, writing stories, displaying results, publishing books, etc., and through this, they must understand that their grandparents were once young, and then realize the passage of life. meaning, and respect for the value of life.

How has it been spreading?

We held exhibitions in schools and communities, inviting grandparents and school children from the community to participate, and disseminated them to the public through Taiwan's largest online news media "United News Network". In addition, the entire interview and filming process was also conducted through FaceBook , IG, Youtube, Line and other social media to spread it to friends in the online community, with a total click rate of more than 10,000 people. Finally, we also published the fate story creation into an e-book to spread the plan forever through online publishing and provide it to other schools for free reference.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

To get started with this project, just copy the steps below. 1. Find grandparents who have photos of them when they were younger. Second, interview their life stories, and third, select photos and take photos of grandparents interacting with the photos. 4. Combine two photos. 5. Arrange the layout. 6. Output display and production of e-books. 7. Invite grandparents to share life stories.

Implementation steps

Find grandparents with young photos
Find grandparents who have photos of them when they were younger, the younger the better, ideally a record of the best parts of their life story. You can prepare a few more pictures and use your mobile phone to take them or scan them on your computer to make a composite text.
Interview story
Make an appointment at a time to interview the grandparents about their life stories, as well as the photo stories they provided. Pay attention to the records of people, events, times, places, and objects as a basis for future content arrangement.
Select photos of grandparents when they were young and take their current photos
Through the life story interview, select the most suitable photo as the main axis of the story, and arrange a time to take current photos of the grandparents. Pay attention to asking the grandparents to pose in a way that interacts with the photos when they were young.
Photo synthesis
Combine the photos of your grandparents when you were young and the photos of your current grandparents through the mobile APP or the "Select Subject" function of Photoshop on your computer. There are a lot of software on the Internet that can create combined photos.
Layout
Edit the text and pictures from the prepared composite photos, and create jpg and PDF files respectively. The jpg file can be used for output display, and the pdf file can be used as the content of the e-book.
Output display and creation of e-books
Send the completed jpg file to print, output it as a large picture and mount it on the back, find a place for community display, and hang it for display. Send the pdf file to the library to apply for an ISBN, and upload it to the e-book website to make it a book that can be downloaded by the public and kept permanently.
Grandparents share stories, and media spread
At exhibitions and book launches, grandparents are invited as guests of honor to share their life stories, filmed, and uploaded to social media and mass media to share this model with more people.

Spread of the innovation

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