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Direct linkTobin, Kathleen A. – History Teacher, 2001
In this article, the author relates her experiences teaching a history course titled "Introduction to the Modern World." She relates how some of her colleagues immediately began providing her with unsolicited warnings regarding the difficulty of engaging students in world history and the impossibility of covering "500 years of the whole world" in…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, World History, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedTaylor, Tom – History Microcomputer Review, 1994
Reviews the computer simulation, "Civilization," and asserts that it offers exciting possibilities as an interactive introduction to world history and historical thinking. Includes a course syllabus in which "Civilization" serves as a central feature and two writing assignments based on the simulation. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content
