June 18, 2015 – Montreal, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
To help teachers pass on the duty of remembrance to their students during the Centenary of the First World War, Réseau Canopé, Ideacom International, Clarke Costelle & Co and the National Film Board of Canada have created the interactive educational tool Apocalypse 10 Lives.
THE APOCALYPSE 10 LIVES APP
Apocalypse 10 Lives is a unique interactive experience that blends an animated graphic novel with authentic archival documents. The viewer is immersed in the maelstrom of the Great War thanks to more than four hours of stories complete with dialogue and sound, two hours of archival footage, hundreds of photos, over 250 drawings, special effects, historical texts and unpublished original documents.
Discover the Apocalypse 10 Lives app (on the Web and downloadable for iPad).
AN INTERNATIONAL BILINGUAL EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT
Réseau Canopé and its partners have pooled their educational and transmedia expertise to offer a free learning resource for the educational community (primarily students and teachers) in Canada and France. The bilingual (English/French) educational content embedded in interactive graphic-novel type stories allows teachers to present the First World War from a stimulating new angle. Students from grades 9 to 12 will discover authentic archival documents and can use this material in study activities in which fiction meets fact.
Discover this online learning resource.
The website presents detailed biographies of the 10 characters, enabling the viewer to discover their fictional but very believable lives in association with real historical events. The site also includes files organized around the following themes:
A file for elementary students (grades 6 to 8)
• The First World War (1914–1918): “The Great War”
Theme-based files:
• Outline of the Historiography
• The Chronological Markers of the First World War
• The Combat Experience
• Civilian Populations: Between Involvement and Suffering
• The Emancipation of Women during the Great War: Myth or Reality?
• Technological and Scientific Progress during the First World War
• Progress in Medicine and Surgery during the First World War
• Writing in Wartime
• The Arts and the First World War
The learning resource uses a multidisciplinary approach (History; Arts and Sciences).
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Réseau Canopé
Camille Guillotin
camille.guillotin@reseau-canope.fr
Idéacom International
Pauline Boisbouvier
pauline.boisbouvier@ideacom.tv
Clarke Costelle & Co
Claire Bellard
claire.bellard@cccprod.com
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