The American Empire Post 3

For this part of the project, my group used Videolicious, an app used to record your voice over slides of pictures. We used pictures that pertained to our topic: Imperialism in America. In the slides, we explained our enduring understandings, and read quotes that related to it. With each member contributing at least one enduring understanding, we all got to hear what the other members of the group thought about the topic, which gave us a better understanding. One enduring understanding in particular being "Extreme nationalism creates people that are entitled, selfish, and unwelcoming to anyone unless they want to join their “utopian” society." This enduring understanding helped our group understand why United States felt they needed to be more involved in foreign affairs, and enact policies such as Manifest Destiny.

The photo essay comprised of a few main steps. The first being finding the pictures to represent the topic. The pictures chosen and arranged into groups of two, each group representing an enduring understanding. Next, we briskly recorded our points over the slides in order to fit the sixty second time limit Videolicious has. I think we did a pretty good job of relating our enduring understandings to our pictures and quotes, but perhaps alternating speaking in the video essay would have been better.

The sinking of the USS Maine. Used as an example of propaganda for the enduring understanding; "The press has much power, it is able to sway opinions and change minds."

Here is the link to our
Videolicious: http://video.videolicious.com/0d2c5fcb-0bea-4de1-824a-c9477a0fad0e
and 
Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XTGHX5D