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Walter Antoniotti

Modern Western Civilization Economic History - 8 views

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    One-Page handout for For Use in History Classes
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    I keep updating the Modern Western Civilization Economic History site. Suggestions welcome. Does anyone use it for student projects?
Eric Beckman

Hayakawa Shōkosai I | Bowler Hat | Japan | Meiji period (1868-1912) | The Met - 1 views

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    Intriguing item from Meiji Japan, combines traditional and western influence. Useful object for student inquiry
David Korfhage

World War I in Photos: The Western Front, Part I - 9 views

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    Photos from the trenches of World War I, via The Atlantic
Cara Montrois

Chinese History - Song Dynasty 宋, Liao 遼, Jin 金, Western Xia 西夏 science, technology, and inventions (www.chinaknowledge.de) - 16 views

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    Dynasties of China with hot links on the right on topics including technology & inventions, economy, & arts Not a lot of images, but a wealth of information Includes information on Modern China, too
David Hilton

VADS: free art and design images for education - 0 views

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    Seems to focus on images of art from Western countries in the postwar period.
David Hilton

Stone Pages * Web guide to Megalithic Europe - 1 views

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    A site run by people really into their rocks. Has information and some high-res images of standing stones, stone circles and other prehistoric megaliths from Western and Southern Europe. Good for prehistoric Europe, the Celts or archaeology, I guess.
David Hilton

Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c.1500: Browse images - 0 views

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    Excellent images of the manuscripts to a high level of detail, however no translations available. When will these people realise that everyone's Medieval Latin is a little rusty these days?
HistoryGrl14 .

Western Civilization/World History Simulations - 32 views

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    Cool online simulations, though I see them more as "Choose your own adventure" types...still I think students will like them! Even come with short answer questions and quizzes!!!
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    Cool resource for "choose your own adventure" type simulations online where students can read about history, but feel like they are navigating through it! Comes with short answer and quiz questions to check comprehension
Christina Briola

Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views

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    Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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    I have created a very successful lesson/activity around this painting. The details are as follows. This window has this year's assignment. The next reply has the previous years. Advice: WHAP Review Activity: The Twittering Masses Review activity (mostly 1914- and East Asia) Description - I previously set up 103 discussions on turnitin.com for this lesson so they post into that person's discussion board and all replies are kept under the initial post. This year they posted on our classes Ning.com in the discussion forum. Grading is also difficult - Since not every one will have the same amount of replies - people are more likely to write to Hitler than Cui Jian for instance. So, I am grading the posts holistically out of 10 (I often only have 100-200 points in a quarter, so for instance a test might only be worth 40 points). I have students use a heading that states who [character] is tweeting what topic they are focusing on and who they are writing to. I would be interested in feedback or improvements people think they can make on this lesson - should I use Moodle, [Again, I have switched to Ning.com] etc.? Many thanks. And you can add or subtract people as you wish, so we have actually added Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, Stephen Biko, and Emiliano Zapata to our role play and taken the painters (of this painting) out of the role play - Write up for students: Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162771/The-Internet-sensation-dinner-party-painting-103-historical-guests--spot.html#comments to see who all these individuals are, in color. The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, 140 words as compared to 140 characters, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose six of them (from my list below - my list is the final list - some people pictured have been replaced) to role-play in the "Twittering Masses." As your historical
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    See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . .
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    I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
Ryan Folmer

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 18 views

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    An interactive database of Western art- a work in progress, but still an excellent resource for teaching/learning art history
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    Great interactive site for art history.
David Hilton

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - 3 views

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    It's not strictly speaking history-related however most of us also teach social studies or something similar and it was just too cool to pass up. An excellent way of demonstrating to students the issues regarding the current Western economic model and the Chimerica conundrum. Scary.
David Hilton

OSA Archivum - 3 views

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    "The Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest is an archival laboratory. While actively collecting, preserving, and making openly accessible documents related to recent history and human rights, they continue to experiment with new ways to contextualize primary sources, developing innovative tools to explore, represent, or bridge traditional archival collections in a digital environment."
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    Wide diversity of sources for modern European history.
Mark Moran

On This Day in 1582, October 5 Never Came - 8 views

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    A good explanation of the impact of the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar by a good portion of the Western World.
David Hilton

Schedule - History of Western Civilization - 5 views

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    There seems to be an increasing tendency to put uni courses online and publicly available. How awesome!
puzznbuzzus

Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views

Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The...

english quiz online

started by puzznbuzzus on 17 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
David Hilton

Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states) : Media : - 4 views

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    The Kennan Institute and National Public Radio in the USA has established an online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history. "The archive consists of recordings dating back to the earliest years of the Soviet state. Included are the voices and speeches of key political figures, including Lenin, Kerensky, Kirov, Beria, Stalin, Gorbachev, and others. Among the recorded interviews are Anna Larina (Bukharin's widow); Valentin Berezhkov, Stalin's wartime interpreter; Yelena Bonner, Sakharov's widow; and Lev Pevsner, a survivor of the Leningrad Blockade. There is also on-the-scene recorded sound of many events in Soviet history, including: the Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe; Stalin's funeral; the August 1991 coup against Gorbachev. [...] The material comes from Soviet and Russian sources, the NPR archives, the archives of the BBC, and individual donors. Some of the material is in Russian, some in English. "
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    The bulk of the audio files are in Russian, however if you scroll down closely there are speeches by significant Western figures too. Yet another excellent set of resources from the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Walter Antoniotti

Western Civilization - 9 views

europe america britain c20th c19th c18th c17th usa

started by Walter Antoniotti on 06 Oct 15 no follow-up yet
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