The method of that class was as follows: Pairs of students re-wrote our paper textbook, section by section, for a web-based, multimedia, student-written and -designed textbook on the Broken World: History from World War I to the End of World War II wiki. That textbook is well worth a read for engaged project-based learning - and for the superiority of web-based texts over those 50 pound dumbbells we force our students to trudge through, and under, from our horrid textbook industries.
Those same student pairs gave lectures on their assigned sections, which we videotaped, uploaded to Google Video, and embedded on the wiki also.
Finally, students used this blog as the space to reflect, weekly, about whatever “wow” of history jumped out at them from the week’s student lectures or readings.
Technical note: I imported this blog from another URL, and in the process, all the student user-names (which were not full name anyway) were replaced with my own. For the record, I am the author of only this post on this blog. All other posts are by students.
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