Here's an amusing slideshow as movie that gets my World History started. Yes, I update it every year. It's "13.67 Billion Years in approximately 13.67 Minutes." (Disclaimer: the timing works better in PowerPoint; as a movie it seems to go much too long.) . . . Drat, it didn't upload the entire "movie." Sorry.

Collaboration in the classroom experiment, Fall 2011

This fall semester in my History 103 class I am going to try out group work again, but this time I would like to initiate better collaboration. History 103 is ambitiously titled "World History, from the Beginning to 1500" and trying to cover millennia of history in one semester is daunting. The first step in this experiment I'm going to take is to show the following 10-minute clip in class on the first day.

What should step #2 be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU