Time 2 Assignment- 1101-Spring 19

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. Login to our Omeka site.

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.

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:

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.