This was a short project from Spring semester, 2007, in the Educational Technology class at Georgia Tech. The goal of the project was to create some sort of educational software based on the learning theories and educational techniques we had learned about in the class.

Our project, HistoSynth, was aimed at Middle School history students. The goal is to help students be able to do history like a real historian, by analyzing and synthesizing ideas from primary sources rather than just reading a boring text book. To help them do so, our software would provide the sources and multiple ways to visualize them and scaffolding to help them read the sources critically and put the information together in a way that supports an argument.