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This Country Study
ePortfolio consists of a generic template of questions designed
to guide learners through a study of Internet resources (webliographies)
that have been identified for a specific target country.
The
end product - the completed workbook assembled by the learner
- will contain basic target country information as well as
a guide to useful Internet resources for future reference
and study.
Country-specific
webliographies are a work in progress. Completed and online
are webliographies for Russia, Ukraine, and several other
Slavic and East European countries.
Also
completed and online is the Any Country generic webliography
which, as the title suggests, can be used to produce an ePortfolio
for almost any nation in the world.
The
ePortfolio consists of 50 questions, each with three parts.
Part A asks for basic factual information. Parts B and C ask
for an expansion of that information which will require further
and deeper research. The 50 questions cover the entire spectrum
of target knowledge, including geography, politics, history,
economics, health issues, the military, and many other topics.
The
ePortfolio can be downloaded to your computer by simply copying
and pasting the "50 questions" preview below to
a word editor or by downloading either the Microsoft Word
or Plain Text versions (also noted below).
STRATEGIES
- Begin
by thoroughly previewing both the 50 questions and the
Webliography BEFORE you begin working on your ePortfolio.
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SEVERAL HOURS should be spent previewing these materials.
- Explore
links in the suggested sites, particularly, in the Mega-Resource
section.
- Do
your own search of Internet resources under topics like
history, geography, philosophy of your target country.
- Add
the sites you think may be useful to the Webliography.
Go to: ePortfolio
Webliographies
Go to: Preview ePortfolio
*50 Questions*
Go
to: ePortfolio DOWNLOADS
The
Country Study ePortfolio, *50 Questions* and DOWNLOADS are intended
as "freeshare" for students, teachers, and other interested
private individuals. The above parties are also free to make
liberal modifications and/or expansions to both the ePortfolio
content and its format.
Any commercial use or reproduction of the contents and format
of the Country ePortfolio and its related pages, and/or links
to the Country ePortfolio from other websites, require the permission
of the author.
(B.B.S.,
August 2003) |
