Greetings! We just passed this weekend the five-year anniversary of the collapse of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, and we’re fast approaching the five-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution.
Today we’ll have a few activities and discussions intended to help situate us in the pattern of work for the semester and highlight some of the fundamental concepts we’ll use to learn about the Middle Eastern revolutions this semester.
We’ll start class with a short reading quiz on Canvas. Keep Canvas open so you can look closer at some of the assignment sheets and documents I’ll discuss.
I’ll walk you through the digital research projects you’ll each work on this semester and we’ll take a quick look at Diigo–our social bookmarking platform–and Google Maps which we’ll use for geotagging.
After reviewing the five perspectives on globalization, I’m going to break you into groups and assign each group two perspectives. You’ll then browse through the class’s Diigo reading list (which you’ll find here) and choose one example of an article relevant to each of your perspectives. The groups will quickly explain how the articles would appeal to the perspectives you’ve chosen.
After that I’ll have your groups practice creating a geotag for each of the two examples to get practice before we have our first geotagging assignment on Thursday.
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