Time 2 Assignment- 1102

Due Friday at 8 PM

1. Learning objectives:

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

1. Create three records in an Omeka Timeline that correctly locates the period, geography of three people, places, ideas, or objects from ancient Babylonia, the Indus River Valley, or ancient Persia.

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of ancient legal and religious texts in their societies.

3. Locate a relevant and credible website for our three societies.

4. Evaluate the credibility of historical websites.

5. Link a website to a record in Omeka through the HTML editor.

6. Explain what challenges you face in evaluating credible web sources.

7. Generate a learning objective for yourself.

2. Activities to complete project

1. Login to our Omeka site:

Face to Face: http://jacknorton.org/1101–10-fa18/admin/users/login

Online: http://jacknorton.org/1101–00-fa18/admin/users/login

3. Dashboard · World History Face to Face Omeka Learning Site, Fall 2018 · Omeka Admin

4. Navigate to the Neatline Plugin “Poverty, Gods, and Laws 2”

Click on the orange/red text to enter the editor.

5. Inside the editor.

• Now that your are in the the editor, review the readings for this week on the Ramayana, Zoroastrianism, and the Code of Hammurabi. Search the web for three, different, credible websites related to these three subjects. Remember the PISA test (Publication, Institution, Sources, Author).

• For our work in Omeka, we will focus on four themes in history: ideas, organizing people, material culture, and gender. Chose an item from your researched websites that relates to one of these themes.

• Create a New Record for each of your three items using the edit page and clicking on “New Record.”

6. Create a point on a map that has a date. Give your point a Title (name) that relates to your website. Do not put the website URL here.

Always click save!

7. In the “Body” box, click on “Edit HTML”. That will bring up an HTML editor that looks like this:

• Post the link to the website you found that relates to the Ramayana, Zoroastrianism, and the Code of Hammurabi that relates to how people dealt with scarcity (poverty) in Babylon, India, and Persia.

• In the “Body” html editing box, write a short analysis (75 words) of why you believe the website linked will contribute to the classes understanding of ancient Babylon, India, or Iran. Be sure to sign your name in the “Body” box for each of your entries.

• Review each of your three new entries for accuracy (date, geographic placement, link, full analysis). You may wish to play with the graphic design to distinguish your points from other students.

• Write a learning goal (what I want to learn from this lesson) in the text box.

8. How am I to find credible websites?

There are a couple of different techniques. You may have learned different acronyms for testing the credibility of a website. One of my favorites is Mike Caufield’s four moves to evaluate sources. The ability to evaluate the credibility of information is likely the most important skill you’ll learn in college.

9. Grading Criteria

1. Student accurately created three records in an Omeka Timeline that correctly locates the period, geography, and historical significance of three people, places, ideas, or objects from ancient Babylonia, the Indus River Valley, or ancient Persia.

2. Student connected the readings for the week to an outside website and linked those sources to relate to our course theme, poverty.

3. Student located a relevant and credible website for our three societies.

4. Student evaluated the credibility of three historical websites.

5. Student accurately linked three different websites to a record in Omeka through the HTML editor.

6. Student generated a learning objective for yourself.