HWC1.2 Day 21 - Africa Wrap-Up & FCP Memberships

Objectives:  Identify the manner in which select African states are dealing with social, political, and economic issues.  Join the FCP13-1 wiki and FCP diigo in preparation for collaborative research.

Task:  Although the team grids aren't quite finalized, we'll join the FCP13-1 wiki and the FCP Diigo group in preparation for our project.  In order to restrict spam and protect students, the Flat Classroom Project is part of a "gated community."  Thus, to join this particular FCP project, you must first join http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/.  Be sure to sign up with your Saucon email address and your FCP username.  Also, when requesting membership, be sure to comment that you are a student from SVHS participating in FCP13-1.  Then, once you're approved as a member of this wiki, you must join http://fcp13-1.flatclassroomproject.org/.  Next, you should request to join the FCP Diigo group.

After you've all joined the wikis and the Diigo group, I'll spend a few minutes introducing your research and reflection project.  Although we won't formally start this project until we've finished FCP, you need to start gathering resources as we progress through our units.  For this unit, you'll find 3 news stories, 2 primary sources, and 1 academic journal source.  Each of these sources must be cited, annotated, and tagged (sub-saharan_Africa, news, primary_document, and/or academic_journal) in NoodleTools.  You must share your work with Mrs. Friday in the "HWC1.2 - Research & Reflection" dropbox in NoodleTools.

For the remainder of class, we'll wrap-up our examination of Africa with an examination of current events from the region.  We've already spent a lot of time looking at areas of conflict and concern.  Now we need to identify positive stories from the region.  You'll work in small groups to find news stories about Sub-Saharan Africa.  By the end of class, each of you should have at least two current events stories annotated and tagged in the "SVHS HWC" Diigo group.


Homework:

• TODAY - Whole New Mind reflection due on VoiceThread by 3:30
• Tuesday, 2/26 - Unit 2 Test (study hints posted on Moodle)
• Friday, 3/1 - Unit 2 research sources (3 news stories, 2 primary sources, 1 scholarly journal) cited, annotated, and tagged in NoodleTools by 3:30
• Monday, 3/4 - Rwanda extra credit due by 3:00 pm

Conflict Minerals Overview from Enough: