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Oneontonians, your last chance to take the History 120 final is on Wednesday 16 May. As I have said several times I don't care which exam you come to as long as you take the exam. Here is the final exam schedule, http://www.oneonta.edu/admin/registrar/pages/spring/sp.asp.
Updated Suggestions for Viewing: Doing History: History Detectives, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/ Global: BBC Horizon, "How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?", BBC/PBS, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwBgNF_4g7Q BBC Horizon, "The Death of the Oceans", BBC/PBS, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4rloPBrA6w Cultural Imperialism: PBS documentary about how the West and the US stole the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from South Africa and a South African, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lionstrail/ Here, by the way, is the most famous American version of the song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxwoxWOd_dc Genealogy and History: Finding Your Roots, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/ The Modern West: Pioneers in Aviation, PBS, http://www.pioneersinaviation.com/ United States: PBS, American Masters, John Muir documentary, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/tag/john-muir/ Independent Lens, PBS, "Facing the Storm: The Story of the American Bison", http://video.pbs.org/video/2225180665 PBS documentary on an all female mariachi band, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/companeras/ Frontline, "Money, Power, and Wall Street", PBS, how Wall Street took the US into an economic meltdown http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-power-wall-street/ PBS, Independent Lens, "The Weather Underground", http://www.hulu.com/watch/118170/the-weather-underground#s-p1-sundefined-i1 PBS, American Masters, Jesse Owens, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/owens/ Circus Dreams, PBS, follows the international youth circus, Circus Smirkus, Circus, PBS, a documentary on life in the Big Apple Circus, http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/ PBS, Independent Lens, "The Revenge of the Electric Car", http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/revenge-of-the-electric-car/ How ALEC helps run America, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, "Even Worse Than It Looks: Extremism in Congress", NPR, 30 April 2012, http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/151522725/even-worse-than-it-looks-extremism-in-congress Carrier, PBS, life aboard the USS Nimitz, http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/ The Guardian, "The Wrong Carlos: How Texas Sent an Innocent Man to His Death", 14 May 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/15/carlos-texas-innocent-man-death Military History: Vietnam: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/ Afghanistan: Global Voices and Independent Lens, “Afghanistan Unveiled”, PBS, on women in the "new" Afghanistan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9dr-tsFsQ News Hour, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis on the Lies about Afghanistan the US Government and its Military Tells, PBS http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june12/danieldavis_02-17.html Ahmed Rashid Talks to Charlie Rose, PBS, About "the Region", April 2012 Saima Wahab, Pashto translator and cultural adviser to the US military talks about her experiences in Afghanistan, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2012/04/22/150979237/wartime-translator-explores-her-fathers-country PBS, Global Voices and Independent Lens, "Motherland Afghanistan", on maternity care in Afghanistan, http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/motherland-afghanistan.html and http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/motherlandafghanistan/film.html PBS, Global Voices and Wide Angle, "Hell of a Nation", on creating a government and writing a constitution in Afghanistan, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/hell-of-a-nation/introduction/935/ and http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/hellofanation.html Fiction takes on the facts of the Afghanistan/Pakistan opium and heroin trade and its global impacts, Channel 4's Traffik (1989), http://www.hulu.com/traffikSpain and Sports: PBS documentary on female bullfighters, http://www.pbs.org/pov/matador/
WELCOME Welcome to Classron, the online site for Dr. Ronald Helfrich's classes at RPI and SUNY Oneonta. I look forward to meeting each one of you during the course of the term. My hope during the course of this term is that I can bring you a further understanding of the making of the modern world, the history of the US, and the history and culture of Afghanistan. That, not teaching for the test, is my goal.
On this sidebar, the ELECTRONIC BLACKBOARD for all my classes, you will find important information below about assignments, documentaries being shown on PBS, how to do this class, contacting me, office hours, class lessons, the online text, and extra credit. Read this sidebar carefully and come to it every day before class to see if I have put up anything about these classes you need to know about. You will also find here announcements about cancellations if necessary.
Beyond the sidebar (electronic blackboard) you will find several things on the front page of classron: the syllabi for all my classes, the texts for all my classes, the meat and bones for my classes, save the War in Afghanistan which doesn't have an online text, and the lesson plans for all my classes. You should explore each one of these so you can become acquainted with how to use them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS and ALERTS Alert:
A WORD OF WARNING. IF YOUR NAME IS NOT IN THE BLOG LIST AND YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOG (THESE SHOULD COME TO YOU VIA THE EMAIL YOU LINKED YOUR BLOG TO) then something is wrong. Please figure out what is wrong and get back to me immediately. SPEAKING OF BLOGS IF YOU HAVE NOT FIXED YOUR BLOGS RPIers (BLOG ONE NOT BLOGS ONES, FORMATTING PROBLEMS) please DO SO IMMEDIATELY.
Let me remind you that what we do in class has no impact on the syllabus. It will remain the same.
Oneonta students: Since there is a class before ours in 307 look for me during office hours in 310, as long as that room remains free of a class from around 12 to 12:50.
No late assignments will be accepted.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING See the Syllabus for information on the class schedule, assignments, readings, viewings
WHAT'S UP IN THE MEDIA? General and Extra Credit Viewing: Oneonta students, for those of you looking for stuff to blog on or to do extra credit on check out the Frontline website (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/), the American Experience website (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/), the Wide Angle website (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/category/episodes/). All of these were originally broadcast on PBS.
RPI Students, for those of you in both the Afghanistan and US history class looking for extra credit to do check out the Frontline website (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/) and, for those of you in the Afghanistan class, the Wide Angle website (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/category/episodes/). For those of you in American history both of those provide a lot of opportunities for extra credit along with the American Experience website (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/).
CONTACTING ME Any communication with me, including extra credit, should include which class you are in. Oneonta students: 1, 2, or 3. RPI students: Afghanistan or US. I DO NOT ACCEPT NOR DO I RESPOND TO COMMUNICATIONS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN THIS INFORMATION. Another word of warning, if you ask me questions that I have already answered either in the syllabus or in the sidebar of classron I will likely refer you to classron or the syllabus for the answer to that question.
A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE TO DOING A BLOG It is not particularly difficult to CREATE a BLOG. I know since I am not a computer geek by any stretch of the imagination but I created a blog with ease thanks to the fact that blogger makes it all very easy to do. So what to do?: Click on CREATE BLOG at the top right of the blogger site. Blogger will now walk you through the process of creating a blog.
Now that you have created a blog let's move on to how you send me the url for this blog. It is not difficult to do this either. So let's do it. Copy the url in the url at the top of the blogger page. Paste it in an email addressed to me. Now send it to me. A blogger blog url will look something like this http://deannacaracciolo.blogspot.com/ or this http://makingofthemodernworld.blogspot.com/. So if yours doesn't look like this you have a problem you need to correct.
Words of Warning: *I will not accept any url addresses that aren't complete. So take the time to get all this right because if you don't there will be consequences. *If you can't figure out how to navigate blogger or how to send the correct url to me then I suggest you go to Internet Technology or to the library staff for help. *Finally, look again at the rules related to how to communicate with me. I don't respond to emails that don't contain the information I requested so take the time to get this right. If you don't it will have consequences.
A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE TO WRITING A BLOG OR ANY PAPER (INCLUDING AN EXTRA CREDIT PAPER) FOR THAT MATTER Example: Blogging on The Most Hated Family in America. Generalise from this example... Introduction: Summary (at least one and likely more paragraphs?; don't forget to put the title of the documentary in the first paragraph) Body (this is where you analyse the documentary): Geography (paragraph?) Demography (paragraph?) Economics (several paragraphs?) Politics (several paragraphs?) Culture (several paragraphs?) Conclusion (sum up) Bibliography
A QUICK GUIDE TO HOW TO DO THE VIEWING AND READING AND TALKING FOR THIS CLASS You should engage the readings, anything we view, and everything we talk about in class the same way we engaged The Most Hated Family, namely, you should think about what they tell us about the group or subject being studied, what they tell us about humans in general, and what they tell us about how social science and history is written. Remember that every thing and every group we talk about tells us something in general about human behaviour.
THE ONLINE TEXT (TEXT) The Text should be thought of as a book with chapters that can be accessed by using the find command or by scrolling up and down. Making of the Modern World and US History students when I say Text Chapter Eight I am referring to Chapter Eight in the Text. After each chapter you will find a bibliography consisting of primary source material links and viewings and listenings links. If you find one of these you want to do for an extra credit assignment contact me and we can talk about it. If I offer extra credit you will be able to earn no more than ten extra credit points. I realise that there is a lot of information in these texts. I don’t expect you to memorise each and every thing they say. What I expect you to do is try to understand the broad gist, the broad point, of each chapter. Modern World students, you will find suggestions as to what to study for the exam at the end of each chapter.
ONLINE LESSONS Lesson plans contain the tentative lessons for each class meeting. So, if you are looking for any of this information I mention in class you can likely find it in the Lesson Plans.
GRADES If you want your blog grades email me for them. Don't forget to provide me with all necessary information. I can't help you if you don't provide this information to me. Here is how, by the way, I calculated blog grades. I was lenient on these first ones and will be less so on future ones. Oneonta Blog Grades were calculated on this basis: Blog Grades: 3 components worth 5 points each. Summary, Analysis (economics, politics, culture, geography, demography), Structure (Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Bibliography). RPI Afghanistan Blog Grades were calculated on this basis: Blog One: 5 components (Most Hated, Opium, Dancing, Rasnayagam, Tradition v. Modern) worth 4 points each. RPI US History Blog Grades were calculated on this basis: Blog Two: 6 components worth 3.3 each (Most Hated, Blackmon and Moyers, Albany Businesswomen, Gilded Age Online Text, Gilded Age Discussion) Blog Four: 4 components worth 5 points each (Viewings and Listenings, Readings, Structure, Class)
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