Select a topic and compare how that topic is treated in different sources.

Locate a popular magazine article, then find a scholarly article on the same subject. Compare the two articles for content, style, bias, audience, etc

Pick a topic and research it in literature from the 50s . Then research the same topic in the literature now. Compare and contrast the topic in a bibliographic essay.

http://pachyderm.nmc.org
Pachyderm is a free, open-source and easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool created by the New Media Consortium (NMC). It’s been designed for people with little technology or multimedia experience and involves little more than filling out a web form. Authors place their digital assets (images, audio clips, and short video segments) into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Completed templates result in interactive, Flash-based presentations that can include images, sounds, video, and text that can be downloaded and displayed on websites or can be kept on the Pachyderm server and linked directly from there


www.dipity.comAnd we come to my favorite of the lot – the dipity timeline creator. It’s what got this journalism grad his job at Huffington Post (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/infographic-nation/). Simple, easy to upload and with a variety of uses, the timeline creator can notch up your memories, milestones and mad magic moments via color-coded, chart-and-bar diagram types, pop-up bubbled infographics. They are the next ‘hip’ tools to hit the market. Say it with information, I say!
What is Dipity?
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.
Who is Dipity for?
Dipity timelines are for anyone who uses the Internet. Newspapers, journalists, celebrities, government organizations, politicians, financial institutions, community managers, museums, universities, teachers, students, non-profits and bloggers all use Dipity to create timelines.
Why use Dipity?
Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines.

Create a blog/wikispace that focuses on the 50’s and have students read and share information from that time period including


Build a digital collection as a class
Build a blog /wiki around a specific time period. For example around the year 1959 and compare the information and writings across the Caribbean – Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, etc.

Examine the news and perhaps the advertisements during Duvalier’s election campaign. How do they compare with elections today in Haiti? What is similar? What is different? What impact do the similarities and differences have on the results?

The collection is organized chronologically by topic so students could be asked to examine different articles/photos/correspondence/documents from different years. For example, how does the ifnroatmion different between 1957 and 1967.

Think of a historically significant event, and write a journal entry as if you traveled back in time to take place in it.

Journalism? Have students compare his personal writings with other journalists to an article in the Haiti Sun. How does his language and prose differ. Does his “reporting styly differ” when corresponding with friends and fellow journalists and reporting to the community at large?

In this collection there is a lot of news about the media and the challenges faced by journalists. How does this compare to information sharing today? In Haiti? In Russia?

Ask them to look for bias in articles. Compare it to an article from today. What are the differences in writing style? Prose? Bias?

Compare a NYT article to an article in Haiti sun – most of his writings in NYT will not be under his name.
Compare a telex to the actual article in Time or NYT


Coverfage of news Haiti vs. Dominican, vs. Jamaica vs. grenada

Journalism? Have students compare his personal writings with other journalists to an article in the Haiti Sun. How does his language and prose differ. Does his “reporting styly differ” when corresponding with friends and fellow journalists and reporting to the community at large?

In this collection there is a lot of news about the media and the challenges faced by journalists. How does this compare to information sharing today? In Haiti? In Russia?

Ask them to look for bias in articles. Compare it to an article from today. What are the differences in writing style? Prose? Bias?

Compare a NYT article to an article in Haiti sun – most of his writings in NYT will not be under his name.
Compare a telex to the actual article in Time or NYT


Coverfage of news Haiti vs. Dominican, vs. Jamaica vs. grenada

Examine the culture articles in the Haiti Sun. discuss how the activity happened and how it would happen now.

who attended the culture events listed? Who would attend today? How has the sociological make-up of Haiti changed?

Examine the photos from the collection; who is represented? does the sociological make-up differ now? in Cuba? Jamaica? Dominica? Grenada? How has it changed?

Social Sciences – ask students to read the Haiti Sun for articles on poverty and compare it to articles written today about poverty in Haiti. How has societal challenges changed? Improved?

Ask them to look for bias in articles. Compare it to an article from today. What are the differences in writing style? Prose? Bias?

Think of a historically significant event, and write a journal entry as if you traveled back in time to take place in it.

The collection is organized chronologically by topic so students could be asked to examine different articles/photos/correspondence/documents from different years. For example, how does the ifnroatmion different between 1957 and 1967.

Research an “iconic” image from a time period of your choice. Explain the context of the image (who, what, when, where, why, etc.) and discuss the effect that you believe this image would have on an viewer’s understanding of the historical event(s) and/or individual(s) that it depicts. Use various photo editing techniques to edit the photo and change the “historical narrative” of this event.

Think of a historically significant event, and write a journal entry as if you traveled back in time to take place in it.