History, Hypermedia and the Birth of a Nation.

The use of computer technology in history instruction permits students to explore the data, and formulate and test their own hypotheses within the confines of the data, rather than being passive receptors of someone else's interpretations. The Gallipoli project brought together materials from a national war archive to develop a multimedia teaching resource for Australian culture and history. The Gallipoli stacks are a set of linked hypermedia documents written with HyperCard that incorporate text, graphics, sound and video and include the diary, statistics, pictures, films, maps and database stacks. They support a full range of media types, facilitate user browsing as well as direct inquiry, and contain a balance of material including soldiers' accounts, official statistics and factual data, a chronology of events for the entire campaign, and original material, some of which has never been published. As instructional materials, these stacks can be used to teach about the history of the Gallipoli campaign, to inform about conducting historical research or to examine issues such as bias in historical writing. (AEF)