WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICA'S HISTORY
A "BOUNDERBOOK" SOCIAL NETWORK

Your first project in Global Studies is to create a Bounderbook profile of a person who made history in South Africa.  Most of you should be very good at this because it's VERY similar to Facebook!  Sure beats me assigning you a report, hey?

Here is a list of the important people to profile.

1. Steve Biko
2. P W Botha
3. F W De Klerk
4. Ruth First
5. Miriam Makeba
6. Nelson Mandela--two person team
7. Bantu Student carrying the dying Hector Pieterson.  This should be done from the perspective of a 15-year old Bantu student activist of Apartheid.
8. Joe Slovo
9. Oliver Tambo
10. Archbishop Desmond Tutu--two person team
11. Hendrik Verwoerd
12. Mahatma Gandhi (While in South Africa)
13. Donald Woods
14. DF Malen
15. William "Bloke" Modisane
16. Nat Nakasa
17. Chris Hani
18. Lewis Nkosi
19. Chief Albert Luthuli
20. Mosiuoa Lekota
21. Hugh Masekela

DIRECTIONS FOR PROJECT

STAGE ONE:  DATA DIGGING

• Go to Wikipedia and search for your assigned person.  Print out the Wikipedia page for them.
• Find one other site besides Wikipedia that has a biography of your assigned person.  Make sure it is reasonable in length!  Don't settle for a site that is one paragraph, and don't try to tackle a site that is longer than the Wikipedia page!
• Now read both of these articles.  You will be reading for a purpose, and that is to create rough-draft timeline of the important events in this individual's life.  The important events should be main historical events as well as important personal events.  The timeline you create should be constructed thoughtfully enough so that I can clearly interpret your thinking without distractions.  You should have no less than ten dates and no more than 20 dates.
• Also take a look at these important events.  You will need to make a reference to each of them.
  
  The Treason Trial (1956)
  Sharpeville Massacre (1960)
  June 16th (Soweto) Student Uprising (1976)

• Create a folder on your server account entitled SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT
• Within your SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT folder, nest another folder entitled PICTURES.  Search the internet for as many pictures as you can of your individual.  You may also want to search for some of the important events in your assigned person's life.  Some of you will have more luck than others at this! I am aware of this.  If you get assigned an individual that does not have a lot of images, it will NOT effect you're grade.  However, you will need to at least have a profile picture!  If you have an individual that DOES have a lot of pictures, I'll know it!  Don't be a minimalist!  Find as many pictures as you can, regardless of who you were assigned!  Save all images to the PICTURES folder you created.
• Within your SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT folder, nest another folder entitled YOUTUBE. Now search YouTube for any video clips about your assigned person.  You should search YouTube using their name, but also consider searching about the important events in this person's life just like you did when searching for pictures.  For each video you find, copy and paste the URL address to a Word document and save that Word document in your YOUTUBE folder.
• Within your SOUTH AFRICA PROJECT folder, nest another folder entitled CULTURE.  Now search for culture using the following search words
  • Apartheid music
  • Apartheid poetry
  • "Your individual's name" speech
  • Apartheid art
  • Apartheid painting
  • Apartheid protest poster
  • South Africa music
  • South Africa poetry
  • "Your individual's name" speech
  • South Africa art
  • South Africa painting
  • South Africa protest poster
  • Apartheid map
  • South Africa Homeland map
  • South Africa natural resources
  • South Africa Geography.  Choose a few places that you think your assigned person may have been or would like to spend time.
  • Popular movies of the era.  Choose a few that you think your assigned person would like. 

STAGE TWO:  CREATING YOUR PROFILE PAGE

Now that you have created a library of events, pictures, YouTube’s, major events, and culture it's time to create your profile page.  You will be creating a page using you're assigned person as your Avatar.  The page should be presented as if your assigned person created it him/herself!  Edit the following:

• General:  Create a username (your assigned person), password, Your "real" name, your assigned person's gender, skip the zip code, list the city they lived in mostly when they became famous, and their birthday.
• Personal
  • For "What's On Your Mind?" . . . enter your individual's views on Apartheid in South Africa in first-person.
  • For "What's Your Idea?" . . . Explain, in first person, what you're individual did in regards to Apartheid that made them famous.
  • For "About Me" . . . Explain in first person who you person was in regards to what work they did, their hobbies, and their personal life.
  • For "Movies Most Liked" . . . choose a few movies that were popular at the time your individual became famous.
  • For "Music Most Liked" . . . choose either popular music of the time and/or protest music popular in South Africa at that time.

STAGE THREE:  UPDATING AND SOCIALIZING!

We will take one class period to FRIEND each other and explore each other's pages!  THEN you will assign homework for one week using the page you created to:

• Enter a few important events each evening to your page.
• Invite other members to the "Big Events" of your assigned individual's life."
• Update with more pictures, videos.
• Enter pictures into the "Gallery."  For each picture make sure you include a caption that explains what's going in that picture, or who is in that picture.  Again, this should be in first person!
• Use the "Video" tab to upload at least one YouTube that is relevant to your assigned person.
• Use the "Video" or "Gallery" tab to upload a clip or picture from a movie you selected for your "Movies Most Liked" in your profile and upload it.
• Use the "Video" tab or a link to a mp3 to post a version of a song you listed for your “Music Most Liked” in your profile and uploads it.
• Use the Chat feature to have a conversation about Apartheid with other historical profiles!
• I will be "Bounderbooking" each night to tally your posts!
• Participate in the "Forum" which you can locate on the top row of tabs. I will be posting questions for you to respond to.  My expectation will be that you answer the questions addressed as well as comment on other student' posts.  For the Forum, you will be answering for yourself, not your Avatar's point of view.  

STAGE FOUR:  SCHOLARSHIP

At the end of the project, I will post questions on my profile page.  Go to may page and copy the questions.  Click "Message" to send a message to me.  Paste in the questions, and then answer them to the best of your ability!

STAGE FIVE:  GRADING!

As always, you will be graded with the Scholarship Rubric.  Keep in mind that I want to see your growth as a scholar!  Do you best work, and you'll be happy with the results!