OP-CHART: Picturing the Past 10 Years

This very cool op-chart was published in the December 27, 2009 New York Times.

I could see students using this as a model for the last ten years in their life, their school's history, or as a series of "learning" logs about the things and people they learned from in a Math class....very versatile model for a wide range of visual assignments....

You can find the original image at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/28opchart.html

Picturing the Past 10 Years by Phillip Niemeyer

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Shirley on March 14, 2010 at 10:25am

I've got a pretty challenging 8:00 a.m. sophomore Contemporary World Studies class. It's a small group, but in addition to processing deficits and low skills, the most significant challenge is their passivity. I'm always on the hunt for something that might ignite some interest. I tried to bring youtube into the mix, but our school computers block it (apparently, it slows the network down). I can project it through my LCD projector, but they need to have done it for homework...but they don't do that. This visual looks like a great way to organize information. Anyone have any lightbulbs that might make learning what's happening in recent history POP? Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Ryan Goble on March 14, 2010 at 3:02pm

Hey Rebecca - you might want to re-post this in a discussion forum as its own discussion forum post - that way everyone in the group will get an e-mail saying you asked a question. Maybe in the World or US History groups. I got an e-mail that you responded because I started the discussion. If you copy your ? into a forum I can make it a crowdsource monday broadcast (everyone in the Ning will now about it - perhaps you title it Making Current Events POP?

Here is a page to help you post in a way that will get folks attention (through e-mails)
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/page/post-a-crowdsource

IN the meantime - this might give you some ideas: http://theweekinrap.com/