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Historycast Project for Honors World Civilization 2.0 **
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 Leonardo Da Vinci Michelangelo Buonarroti Raphael Santi Rembrandt Van Rijn Michelangelo Caravaggio Ludwig Von Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Writers ** William Shakespeare Niccolo Machiavelli Miguel Cervantes John Milton Desiderius Erasmus ||= ** Religion ** Martin Luther John Calvin Francis Xavier Saint Teresa of Ávila Huldrych Zwingli Ignatius of Loyola ** Philosophers ** Voltaire Jean–Jacques Rousseau Baron de Montesquieu Mary Wollstonecraft Thomas Hobbes John Locke ||= ** Scientists ** Nicolas Copernicus Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton William Harvey Andreas Vesalius Johannes Kepler Robert Boyle ** Explorers ** Ferdinand Magellan Zheng He Vasco de Gama Christopher Columbus Hernando Cortes ||= ** Politics ** Queen Elizabeth I King Louis XIV Maximilien Robespierre Catherine the Great Suleiman the Magnificent Tokugawa Ieyasu Shah Jahan Emperor Hong Wu Philip II of Spain King Henry VIII Peter the Great Oliver Cromwell Montezuma II
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New Web 2.0 applications give us many new ways to learn. We have already used a blog, now the power is going to be placed in your hands. In this project, each student will individually research a person of importance from the time period beginning with the Renaissance up to the French Revolution. You will post your research information on a page on the class wiki. You will then use that information to create a script describing the life and achievements of your person that will also be posted to the wiki. You will then create a 3 to 5 minute audio recording of your script which will then be available online for your classmates to learn from in preparing for future tests and the midterm exam. Parts of the project will be done in class, but the majority of the project will be done at home or on your own time. The project timeline is as follows:
 * Project Requirements**
 * Length:**
 * 1) Research Page – about 800-1000 words
 * 2) Script - 400 - 600 words
 * 3) Presentation - 3 - 5 minutes in length
 * Sources:**
 * Cite Sources in APA Format (Use [|Citation Machine] )
 * Minimum of 4 Sources must be used.
 * One source must be a book
 * No more that 2 of the 4 sources can we Wikipedia articles (you can have more if you have more than 4 sources)
 * Timeline:**
 * Signup for person – Completed by Sept. 11
 * Research posted on wiki – Posted by Sept. 25
 * Script completed on wiki – Posted by Oct. 9
 * Creation of podcast – Oct. 10 - 23.
 * Project completion – Final Product Submitted by Oct. 26.

This project will account for approximately 20% of your first quarter grade.

To view the project rubric, [|CLICK HERE]


 * YOU WILL UPLOAD YOUR COMPLETED MP3 FILE TO [|GCAST] FOR THE PODCAST. Create your own user name and password.**


 * RESEARCH LINKS:**

[|Mr. Folmer's Bookmarks on Delicious]

http://www.s9.com/ - a dictionary that covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. http://www.biography.com/ - website of the Biography Channel, from the A & E Television Network. http://www.infoplease.com/people.html - from Pearson Education


 * HELP:**

Free Sounds and Music for your Podcast CLICK HERE

For creating your podcast, we will be using Audacity. To download the program for free to use at home [|CLICK HERE] (Windows) or [|CLICK HERE] (for Mac).  [|CLICK HERE] to download the lame_enc.dll encoder to convert your file to a .MP3

Visit this site for video tutorials for using Audacity [|CLICK HERE]  View the following tutorial to use Audacity

View the following tutorial to use GCast