Instructions for Individual Timeline Posts

I. Instructions for Individual Timeline Posts to be made to your Group’s “Timeline Discussion Boards” and then copied in a timely manner into your “Individual Timeline Post Confirmation” Assignments

1. Timeline subject: this is the person, place, event, series of events, theme, topic, figure, etc. that provides the focal point of your timeline post. (This should be in the Middle Ages not for example the Bronze Age or Classical Era. They should also increase in time along with the topics of the modules.)

2. Interesting fact #1 in your own words about the subject with source parenthetically. Here is a bit of sample text I wrote assuming your topic is the German Peasant’s War/Rebellion/Revolt 1524 to 1525: Martin Luther turned against the peasants, even though they had been inspired by his writings, and sided with the nobles. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War (Links to an external site.))*.

3. Interesting fact #2 in your own words about the subject with a different source cited parenthetically. Example: The famous artist Albrecht Dürer designed what has been regarded as a very innovative kind of monument about the German Peasants’ War that has been interpreted in a variety of different ways, ranging from condemnation to affirmation of the peasants' actions. Particularly interesting for me about this monument was this passage near the bottom of the article: "Dürer manipulates distant forces in a unitary design and accepts the contradictions of his time without trying to solve them, laying them bare, making them productive”** ( http://thecityasaproject.org/2012/07/the-measure-of-turmoil-durers-monument-to-the-vanquished-peasants/ (Links to an external site.)).

4. An embedded image in the post that links to its source on the World Wide Web (the image needs to visible in your post *and* linked to its point of origin on the Internet)). The goal of the image is to summarize as succinctly, effectively/impactfully as possible in visual terms, what the subject is about, or reveal some particularly interesting aspect or theme about your subject:

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This is a linked rendering of Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (http://thecityasaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/peasants-709x1024.png (Links to an external site.))

5. A Google Earth (or TerraVision, the source Google Earth stole from if you want) and/or any Maps posting program that gets as “close” as possible to your subject in its more immediate spatial surroundings. Always provide a brief description of the connection to your subject! For example: Near Frankenhausen, site of one of the main battles of the German Peasants’ War, there is a museum that houses a variety of different kinds of artworks associated with the War.

Google Earth Link: https://earth.google.com/web/search/panorama+museum+bad+frankenhausen/@51.366015,11.103488,264.71264825a,1017.8150184d,35y,0h,45t,0r/data=CowBGmISXAolMHg0N2E0NDhkMTQzZDA5ZTBiOjB4YTE4MDZmNWU2OWY5MDg2Yxk3bFuU2a5JQCGQDg9h_DQmQCohcGFub3JhbWEgbXVzZXVtIGJhZCBmcmFua2VuaGF1c2VuGAIgASImCiQJf9tr91evSUARQz3mg1auSUAZrONj09s3JkAhqGj29LIzJkAoAg (Links to an external site.)”;

Or: With this Google Maps Link, you can take a virtual tour of the Panorama Museum. Just click on those stairs to walk up into the Museum (and see on the third floor why it’s called the Panorama!)” https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3656137,11.1034055,3a,75y,8.18h,90.01t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sBinJtSn5FSIAAAQ7Lr9pMA!2e0!3e2!7i11736!8i5868 (Links to an external site.)”. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3658933,11.1034067,3a,75y,312.94h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN5WBFGNl13PbOgiXybnVs2fIMZvWmSaRDtiupV!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN5WBFGNl13PbOgiXybnVs2fIMZvWmSaRDtiupV%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya180.41707-ro-0-fo100!7i11564!8i5782 (Links to an external site.) .“

TerraVision, is another program you may use as it was the basis for Google Earth and where GE stole their tech: Digital Earth: TerraVision: Overview (sri.com)

No credit will be given for Google Earth or Google Map Links to entire countries, cities, regions. You need to be more spatially specific. If you are having difficulties doing this, you may need to consider making your subject more specific.

II. Instructions for Group Timeline Presentations

At the end of Week 7 and at the end of the semester, your group will be responsible for bringing your group members’ various individual timeline posts into a single Group presentation (i.e. your group will post a Monastic Group Timeline at the end of Group 7 and a Courtly-Chivalric Group Timeline at the end of the semester). The goal of your presentation will be not merely to bring your 10 best individual posts together, but beyond this to present them all in an interesting and *coherent* way. The goal for your group timeline presentations will be to convey some kind of narrative or tell some kind of “story” with your group presentation.

You should get in touch with your other group members and collaborate with them in order to confer about what kind of narrative/story you are going to be conveying via your group timeline presentation.

Here is a link to creating a Timeline using PowerPoint:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-timeline-9c4448a9-99c7-4b0e-8eff-0dcf535f223c (Links to an external site.)

You are free to use PowerPoint or any other Slide format your group prefers for your group timeline presentations.

Key Factors of the Timeline Project: A timeline with the dates of the 10 slide presentations, names of group members who worked on project, and initial each slide that is your work. For the 10 slides, each must contain all the above information with 1 interesting fact (or both combined if they are short) exactly as described above.