Historic Environment Scotland (HES) offers a blog on creating a series of Digital Stories to help schools learn about blackhouse history and Gaelic, with the help of pupils from Sgoil an Taobh Siar.
HES writes:
HES recently teamed up with Illuminate UK and children’s author Emily Dodd to help pupils from Sgoil an Taobh Siar learn about the history of the Arnol Blackhouse. The Digital Stories project team helped the children research their local Lewis history and create a series of short films telling some of the fantastic stories they uncovered. The pupils used a mixture of research, multimedia and imagination to bring the history of the blackhouse to life like never before.
Once they’d written their stories, the children picked out Gaelic words and phrases that capture important criomagan (fragments) of blackhouse culture to include. They then created artwork, recorded voiceovers, and spent a tough week of intense team work creating some stunning pieces of work!
See the full story on the HES blog
