Submit
- Your group will submit the Group Choice assignment, and you should submit your peer evaluations. (150 points)
What you can do in this unit
- Figure out the details of an assignment for me! My original idea for the assignment was to use Google Earth as a tool to examine the "changing world" in the past twenty-five years or so. Using the historical slider option in Google Earth, a student would be able to study the aerial images of places such as Detroit, Sarajevo, Gaza, South Sudan, Fukushima to use the changing images to understand the history of the place and what has changed (often dramatically) in recent times. But because of the limits on Google Earth's historical slider, I have not been able to come up with a great list of sites for this assignment, sites that can be viewed on Google Earth back to 1990 or so.
- EarthExplorer is website created by USGS that allows you to look at satellite imagery of the earth.
- See this great timeline by Jameson Collins and Gabriel Cao on the history of the smartphone.
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- Terra Antarctica (2009)
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the URL and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- For extra credit up to 5 points, I am always looking for photos from historical sites (graves, statues, churches, battlefields, buildings, waterfalls, mountains, etc) from around the world, particularly Russia, to use in our online courses. If you have anything that you wish to share, I would much appreciate it, and you will receive credit for your photo if used in one of our courses. Any photos that you send must have been taken by yourself. Please attach your photos to an email and send to me at charles.t.evans@gmail.com. (Don’t use cevans@nvcc.edu because of email attachment size limits.) This extra credit opportunity does not count against your limit of one extra credit for this unit.
- For extra credit, please suggest a relevant website for this unit of the course. Send your instructor the title of the site, the URL and a brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to the material being studied this unit.
Unit Learning Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to (1) demonstrate your knowledge of the importance of one selected, specific historical event of the past seventy years and (2) demonstrate your ability to work with an online digital tool.