I decided to try my hand at
PREZI "zooming"/motion-sickness inducing presentations! I have to say that I really love Powerpoint's flexibility and intuitiveness, but I figured this tool would be useful in helping students see history in more realistic "proportions", seeing as the country of Singapore is aptly nicknamed "tiny red dot." (And to all you
real academicians out there, please do not whack me for representing the world in the way I did, I had no choice! The Prezi Toolbar seemed to have leanings towards the West :P)
Caption: An over-simplified, perhaps, rendition of the world circa the 1860s to 1930s. Chapter 5 is sadly a very short chapter in the students' textbook, with the sole purpose of showing students how major world events came to influence Singapore's inevitable involvement in WWII. It's a pity I can't spend more time on each of these other events -- The Great Depression? WWI? Industrial Revolution? So much juice there, ahhh! Oh well. When you're on Singapore time, you have
no time.
(Above: Worksheets meant to accompany the presentation/discussion. I know it's pretty self-indulgent (or just plain teacher-y?) of me to post my lessons here but I'M PRETTY DARN PROUD of this one considering I made it all in one go whilst sick in bed with a stomach virus! So hooray!)
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