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  4th Quarter Benchmark Description

Posted by Diana Laufenberg in Globalization - Laufenberg on

Globalization 4th Quarter Benchmark

Big Idea: Evidence of globalization is everywhere in our day-to-day activities.  All around us, the influences of global factors drive decisions, impressions and understanding.  In order to internalize this influence and impact, we look to our familiar surroundings for images that represent the different topics and themes we study in Globalization.


Basics:

  • Take 10 original photos that represent a different aspect of the globalization curriculum – reference the course outline for a list of the themes and concepts
  • For each of the images, write at least two paragraphs that explain the connections between the image and the globalization theme.  These paragraphs need to draw clear connections between the theme, Philadelphia and reputable resources.
  • A 10 source bibliography (not annotated) MLA format
  • Choose a presentation tool that best represents your ideas (this are just a few ideas, there are many, many more)
      • o    http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?gclid=COevzt3KrqECFQmU7QodCVMOAQ
      o    Keynote has some great templates for creating an essay with audio and text
      o    http://www.joggle.com/  
        •    with this tool you can just record your analysis if you like, pretty easy to use.
      o    http://photopeach.com/
      o    Google Presentation
      o    Here http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/
        •    great site that has some of the best photo essays I have ever seen. Also we can use Imovie to make slide shows as well if people don't want to learn a new program.

  • Post a link to your work on sla.org


Suggested Use of Time in Class:


Week One:  Brainstorm a list of images/scenes that you would like to capture and tie each of those to a theme from the Globalization course outline.


Week Two: Research each of the themes, looking for a reputable source to support the ideas you would like to represent in each of the different images and corresponding paragraphs.  When you write your paragraphs, you should specifically cite these sources in the paragraphs.


Week Three: Write your paragraphs and complete your bibliography, pull together the images, paragraphs and bibliography into a published format.


Outside of class homework: Collect images and finalize any requirements not finished in class.


Example:


 

image


The demographic shift within Alma Center, WI is best exemplified by these side by side signs.  Over the past 20 years, the number of Spanish speaking immigrants has grown dramatically in this small, rural farming town.  Interestingly the long settled families of this area match many of the cultural and societal norms of the new immigrants settling in the area with a focus on religion and families.  Prior to the recent migration of Latino immigrants, the predominant cultural backgrounds were from Northern Europe.


Immigrant migration into small farming communities was best explained in this article by …. (you get the picture)

 

Benchmark : North Korea & Kazakhstan

Posted by Narcissa Haskins in Globalization - Laufenberg on


Here Your Go :D

Reflection:
This project was very enlightening and I was very surprised with some of the researched I found. I decided to look at Kazakhstan because when I typed it into to google.com, it provided a lot of information I could work with unlike the other countries in Central Asia. My decision to compare it with North Korea was mainly because of my huge interest on how their country is ran, knowing that it is very hostile. My process was basically to look up the country regarding to the 5 point frame work and provide a nice overview. It was a tad difficult because in certain topics like the response, because I had to dig around the web for a good piece of information. Other than small difficulties of that sort, the project itself was, to my belief, successful.  I'm quite proud of the finishing product and the one thing I would add , not change, is the inclusiveness of live videos of both countries current state.

Quarter 3 Benchmark

Posted by Tajh Jenkins in Globalization - Laufenberg on

​Click to view the Benchmark.

Reflection:
The countries that I selected for this benchmark are Australia and Madagascar.
My process was ok. I feel like I have more than should actually have on the benchmark. The frameworks were straightforward. The only 5 point framework that I thought was difficult was "hostile neighbors." It was kind of hard to research this particular framework because I wasn't exactly aware of where to go to find information. The other 4 frameworks weren't hard to research. The problem was choosing the best source to use information from. If I could change one thing about my product, I would lessen the amount of words that I have. I think that I wrote a lot. Overall this benchmark was not difficult, but I didn't really enjoy doing it. It took me a while to actually start the benchmark, but I hope that my finish product doesn't reflect that. Putting my project together of a Pages application was simple. I just had to make sure it was organized and the layout had to be nice. 

Collapseability Reflection

Posted by Dominque Miller in Globalization - Laufenberg on

The two countries I chose were, The District Republic of the Congo and New Zealand.They are both located fairly far away from one another but still have warm tropical climates. New Zealand is located in Oceania, and The DR Congo is in Africa. They both have extremely different economic histories, so it was very interesting comparing the two countries.
My process consist of a lot of research! It was really hard finding good sources in order to make my project accurate. The first thing that I did was write a script for everything I wanted to say. Of coarse I followed the 5 point framework for each country so it took quite a bit of time. After I found out what I wanted to so say I began to design my presentation using pictures, and graphs to make the my research understandable. Using the framework was a little difficult at times but it was helpful, because it gave me a good structure to work with. The only one that I thought might not have been the most unnecessary was "The Societies Response to Environmental Damage", the reason I say this is because this could have been clumped together with "Environmental Damage". I felt like I was writing the same things for both points in a way.
If I could change one thing about the project I would have done a website, instead of a PDF. I say this because I think the website organized the information much better, and it looked a lot better. In the end though I am very satisfied with my project . I worked extremely hard and I hope that it is shown through my final presentation. I think that if Ms. Laufenberg were to assign this benchmark next year, she should only make it one country so that students could be thorough about what they say about the countries they choose. I felt as though I was rushing with the Congo because I spent so much time on New Zealand.

Q3 Benchmark Reflection

Posted by Andre Serrano in Globalization - Laufenberg on

​ Overall, India is in much more stable condition than Egypt. Its strong trade ties with the west and its neighboring countries have allowed its economy to flourish in recent years. However, it has some significant weak spots. India is much more susceptible to global warming and climate change than Egypt because of its unique geography and dependency on agriculture. Both countries have made efforts to improve the relationships with its neighboring countries; however, both India and Egypt have had an array of boarder disputes and diplomatic tension.
The 5-point framework was sometimes difficult to assess. For example, considering Egypt is a developing country, it has been making great strides in green technology to combat global warming; however, if they don't reach their goal of 20% renewable energy by 2015, it could have disastrous effects for the stability of the country, greatly affecting tourism and the agricultural sectors. It was difficult to assess this aspect of their collapsibility rating because there are so many pros and cons.
            I'm really proud about the layout of my project; however, in some parts of the project, it was difficult to find information and I think that that is reflected in the final product. I enjoyed this project, despite questionable time management throughout the entire process. One addition I would make to this project would be to add more categories to compare each country to. I think someone could get good understanding as is, but it would only be improved by adding certain categories. For example, if an issue a country has doesn't fall under the pre-existing categories, it could appear more stable than it actually is.

Benchmark Reflection

Posted by James Smith in Globalization - Laufenberg on

Summary-​I chose Cuba a Caribbean island south of Florida, It is currently in an embargo with the united states. My other country was Great Britain which is to the west of Europe and is the third most populated island on earth.
Overview-I looked up my countries and used the benchmark description to pull information out on slides.
Reflect-The 5 point framework was straightforward, there were some that required some thinking but it wasn't to bad.
Change-I would make it more appealing with pictures
Other-Nothing really(my computer is about to die so ill edit this later)

Collapsing Nations??? (BM and Reflection)

Posted by Jennifer Albright in Globalization - Laufenberg on

Benchmark:
View here.




Reflection:
For my benchmark I chose to research North Korea, East Asia, and the Philippines, Southeast Asia. When I started this project I chose my countries and then, starting with the Philippines, I went into the CIA Factbook. I started up a document where I took notes and kept links that I used for information. I then began researching the two countries, again with the Philippines first, based on the "five-point framework" from Collapse. I went through articles from trusted news sources, articles from big organizations, and sifted through everything. As I went I took down information that I thought would help my process and kept track of the links I used to find the information. After I repeated the process for North Korea, I went through each of the five points and considered all of the information on my document and I rated them based on the countries' issues and how well they were able to handle it, for example the Philippines got a low rating for climate change because climate change could devastate their environment and ability to maintain food sources but they weren't at the bottom because they're making efforts to solve this situation. When using the five-point framework I found myself having a little bit of trouble. I didn't want to rate too high or too low and I wanted to make sure I was honestly taking different parts of each topic into consideration and not just surface level knowledge, like that North Korea has a high rate of water pollution; I also considered the effects and the weight of those effects on things like survival, economy and trade. So, rating took a little bit of time. If I could change one thing about my product I would add more diagrams, not just information and pictures of things that are being done, but statistics, diagrams and charts because they get a lot of information out in a tiny bit of space which would have saved me some writing.

Q3 BM Collapse

Posted by Darnell Sample in Globalization - Laufenberg on

In this project I portrayed myself as a blogger who interviews officials from other countries over the internet about whether or not they will collapse.

Reflection:
        The two countries I've chosen was Cambodia and Pakistan. Cambodia, located in south east asia, I've always been interested in however knew very little of them and Pakistan I've always seen in the news however didn't know why, so I wanted to see if they were on the brinks of collapse. Originally I was going to do a "Hard Ball" type presentation, however last minute I due to lighting situations, and me being very tired lately I've decided to do the "Sleepy kid" who skypes with officials from other countries.
        My process of my project was simple, look up the information needed and rate it. Since I did an online blogger video I was able to make a script as I went to give it more of a "live" vibe to it. At first I used to the CIA factbook and that was no help to me in the beginning. Then I later went back to look at it again and it was a more than enough help for me when I had more patience to actually go through it, so it gave me more of a better ground for what I was looking for. It was like Ms.Laufenberg said "It's where you can start but it's not where you are going to end."
       For this project we went through the five point framework related to collapse, which made it all the more simpler. Knowing what I was looking for in 5 easy steps made this benchmark a lot less complicated and easier to present. Thinking back now on this project I would change one thing, and the only mistakes I made and that was doing the wrong country. Instead of Cambodia I was suppose to do the country of Columbia from my current South American region. I am confident I was still able to portray everything correctly, however that is my only flaw.

Benchmark

Posted by Christopher Cassise in Globalization - Laufenberg on

​Click here!

Benchmark Reflection:

I chose Guyana and Italy which are two completely different countries in terms of size, political system, and goods that are traded. The process of the project was fairly easily done and reliable through many different sources that were able to help aid me in making a well done project. I found that the five point framework was straightforward but sometimes difficult to find enough evidence for some. For example, the hardest point was hostile neighbors in my two countries because technically they speak about having none, so it was my job to dig up old problems with their boundaries that were shared to create a sense of a hostile neighbor for them.

I thought the other points were pretty straight forward and through the right research gave me enough information for each. I wouldnt change anything to my project but maybe use a different technical way of presenting it. I seen alot of creative ways to showcase ideas through the different countries that I never thought about which made it more interesting to read then through a pdf. It was a fun project and interesting to figure out an estimate to the way the countries would survive considering the five different set points. I found the book to be an alright piece of help in this context but overall I didnt locate the book when I was in trouble but rather used the internet as my fall back to understand the points clearer.



Collapsing Societies: A Focus on Peru and Thailand

Posted by Kellam Farrell in Globalization - Laufenberg on

​Here it is!

My old region was South America and my current region is Southeast Asia. The countries that I chose to work on in this project were Peru and Thailand. I picked these because they are both in very different parts of the world, but they have a few similarities. My process could have been better. I pretty much started working on this project on Sunday night. I completed my research on Monday, I wrote what I had to say last night, and then this morning I put it all together. I thought that this was a pretty straightforward project that wasn't too hard to do. There were some things that were harder to find information about than others. For example, it was not very hard to find information on Climate Change and Environmental Damage, but it was kind of hard to find information about Hostile Neighbors. If I could change one thing about it, I think I would make it into something more interesting like a movie. The information I have on my keynote is good I think, but it isn't very exciting and it could be a little bit more so.

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