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Syrian Crisis – Digital Show and Tell

Concepts & Content:

  • Focused on Syrian Crisis, which started in 2010.
  • Layout is similar, very closely related to “Cascade” in Story Maps.
  • Their goal is to bring awareness to the Syrian Crisis.

Design & Technique:

  • Similar to ArcMap/ Story Maps, but they’re not all the same type of page/slide. Each scroll has different material shown.
  • Information is meaningful, straightforward and simple.
  • Information is not persuasive but rather, informative and includes everything needed for background knowledge of the Syrian Crisis.

Collaborative & Documentation:

  • Simple, minimalistic.
  • Powered by Google and UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).

https://searchingforsyria.org/en/what-was-syria-like-before-the-war/

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Digital Show and Tell – DESMOS.com

Monday, October 9th, I shared a tool that is used for math called desmos.com. Though not directly related to the humanities, it is a tool that can be used to assist understanding and learning of the humanities. One of our criteria talked about using the tool in a productive way, and I think tool does just that. It is a powerful tool and resource for teachers to pull in ideas to help further students’ understanding. In addition to that, it is user-friendly and relatively simple. Practically anyone who knows how to use a computer knows how to use this. It holds all the qualities of a graphing calculator but goes even beyond that to graph lines where could be multiple constants. I realize this is not a website that brings in humanity topics into its uses but it is a resource for connecting humanities to mathematics.

 

desmos.com