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Bridging World History
Built for the Annenberg Foundation and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Bridging World History is a multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that looks at global patterns through time — seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences. The course consists of 26 units (half-hour video, interactive Web activities, and print materials) that can be explored at either introductory levels or as more advanced study.
The Web site includes an archive of over 1000 primary source documents and artifacts, journal articles from the Journal of World History and other publications, and a thematic interactive activity on interrelationships across time and place called the World History Traveler.
Building the Traveler interactive allowed AMAZING! to break new ground. The interface to the Traveler was created in Flash yet it loads all its content from a MySQL database. The visitor learns to understand the thematic threads of history while exploring the sometimes surprising connections in the Traveler. Along their virtual journey the vistor can "collect" useful materials and print them to a PDF for later use.
In addition to the Web site design, PHP/MySQL programming and Flash interactives AMAZING! also provided the show open video production, map images for the video series and the keys and credits.
AMAZING! provided the following for this project:
- Planning, project management and consultation
- Interface design for the Web site
- HTML, PHP, MySQL and PERL engineering
- Flash programming
- Logo design and creative direction
- keys, credits and additional graphics for video
To visit Bridging World History, click here.
To visit the World History Traveler, click here.
To watch the video episodes from Bridging World History, click here.
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