Modern World History for the Class of 2010

Weblog Project: Decades of the 20th Century

You will be assigned a decade of the 20th Century to study in depth.
You will make a blog and your classmates will comment on it.
You must give your decade a title which will be the title of your blog. Be creative and come up with a name that sums up the main ideas of the decade.
Your goal is to produce a weblog that helps your classmates understand the key people, events and developments of your decade.
Your blog must include the following headings:
Topics
1. Important Events (3) of the Decade
2. Important People of the Decade (3)
3. Important Technological Improvements of the Decade (2)

You may include one of the following:
1. A Famous Piece of Art of the Decade
2. A Famous Musician of the Decade (You might be able to include a link to an audio file)
3. A Popular Consumer Product of the Decade
4. A famous book of the Decade
5. An important Scientific Discoveries of the Decade

Remember to include a caption for every picture that you use on your blog. This should be about 2-3 sentences. For example, explain why you think a particular event is important in your decade or why a the musician you selected is so important.
Remember to show the source of every picture on your blog. (Select a small font for your citation)

posted by Peter Anthony @ SAS @ 9:51 PM 0 comments

Weblog Basics

Setting up your Blog
Go to http://blogger.com
Step One

i. Choose a user name: Use the name you are called by in class followed by ris2006
e.g. peterris2006
ii. Display name: Make this the same as your user name
e.g. peterris2006
This name will appear as the author of postings and comments.

Step Two

i. Blog Title: your name followed by Modern World History Blog
e.g. Peter’s Modern World History Blog

ii. Blog Address (URL): same as your user name
e.g. peterris2006 (write this down)
This becomes your URL so keep it simple e.g. peterris2006@blogspot.com
Step Three

i. Choose your template
ii. Make a posting. This could be a welcome message to your readers.


Fine-tuning your Weblog

Fine-tuning your blog

Log on to Blogger using you user name and password.
Go to the Dashboard.
Go to Edit Profile. To ensure your privacy uncheck “Share my profile” This is an important consideration when students set up their blogs so that their privacy is protected.
Return to the Dashboard
Select Change Setting Icon (It is a blue cog.)
You have a number of tabs most of which are for advanced use only.
Go to the Formatting tab and change to Thailand Time
Go to the Comments tab and select “Show Word Verification for Comments”. (This will stop you being spammed.)

posted by Peter Anthony @ SAS @ 4:24 PM 0 comments

Unit 1 Nationalism and World War 1

Benchmarks:
1. Understand the causes of World War One
2. Understand international efforts to make peace after World War One





Topics and Activities
1. Classroom Expectations and the Study of History
PP Presentation
What is History? Why do we study it? How do we study it?
Class Discussion
Your Modern World History Weblog

2. The Legacy of the 19th Century
Ideas and major events of the 19th Century.
PP Presentation
3. What have been the key events, people and developments of this century?
Overview of the Century Activity
Internet research and weblog

4. The Great War: The First Total War
Lecture: classic causes of WWI, Reading pp. 10-18.
The Nature of modern warfare
Video: All Quiet of the Western Front

5. The Versailles Treaty: Strengths and Weaknesses
Reading pp. 73-87
Conference simulation

Leading Question

What brought about change in the 20th Century?

posted by Peter Anthony @ SAS @ 3:47 PM 1 comments