The World Global

Japan's Rise Artwork File

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Update and What's Worked

Draft--Post in Progress

Update

Today I am uploading most of the materials I have developed/adapted and used throughout the semester. Of course, I should have been uploading them as the semester progressed, but I was looking for a good excuse to sit here and write a post anyway. It must be my subconscious setting my agenda again. Click the links to to the lectures and Global Materials links to access the materials.
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What's Worked (And What Hasn't)   

At the beginning of the semester I made several decisions:

• To forgo the use of blogs and discussion fora in the Global Course. There are still too many students without regular access.
• To cater to the prevailing sentiment in the Global History Dept. at MCSM by switching from a thematic to a chronological organization for the course.
• To connect the chronological strands of the course by familiarizing the students through the theme of a cyclical power dialectic.
• To  make Cornell Notes the standard homework assignment throughout the year.
• To speed up the pace of the course (this was also a department decision) in order to cover units spanning the Age of Absolutism to World War I in one semester.

Docs
Themes reversed
Homework reading
Creating a Nation--no projects, 44 minute blocks

To be continued..