Our class DIIGO and TWITTER group

We have a class group DIIGO that we can ALL contribute to: Link to Class Group DIIGO

DIIGO is a 'cloud-based' bookmarking, highlighting and storage facility that allows us to save material from the internet and annotate it to personalise it for our specific needs. It also allows us to create dialogue on the information found (an analysis forum), which will be useful for collaborative research. Let's all share and benefit!

In addition to email (our primary medium of communication), we can also share information more rapidly in and out of the classroom via our class Twitter List: LINK.

Here we can share ideas, opinions, resources, and suggestions on the TOPICS and ONLY THE TOPICS being studied in our class. Remember, this is not your personal Twitter feed/discussion - keep it to the topic and we'll all progress together!

Intoduction to the study of History

What is "History"? And, why do we study it? on Prezi

Unit Introduction & Course Structure

With the ever increasing phenomenon of blogging around the world, the line between professional journalists and amateur bloggers has blurred and many believe ALL bloggers to actually be journalists! So, welcome all you budding journalists to the wonderful world of blogging. We will be using this blog as a base medium from which to learn throughout this unit of work. Feel free to join and contribute!

Here is the general structure or mechanics of the course. It is heavily focussed on a line of questioning - the historical inquiry model - that categorises questions into "Background & Causes", "Effects & Arguments", "Reflective" and "Sources".
The overarching question that we would like all to have an understanding of by the end of this course/inquiry is How Did the Nazis Transform Germany and lead the world into war? 
The sub-questions that will lead us through this inquiry are as follows:

1. Why was Germany in Turmoil after WW1? (Background)
2. Who was Hitler and the Nazis and what did they believe in? (Background)
3. What happened to politics in Nazi Germany? (Effects & Arguments)
4. How did their support grow, and as a result, control Germany? (Effects & Arguments)
5. How did the Nazis deal with dissent? (Effects & Arguments)
6. What happened to education in Nazi Germany? And how did it affect the youth? (Effects & Arguments)
7. How were Jews and other minority groups treated in Nazi Germany? And was there resistance? (Effects & Arguments)
8. What sources are available on these questions and how reliable, representative and relevant are they? (sources)
9. Is there a Nazi in all of us? (Reflection)