Progress on Crusades Project 2

I did not do any work on the crusades project yesterday because I was preparing the CCOT essay on Africa.

However, today, I decided that I will be doing the First Crusade (1096), the Third Crusade (1182-1192) and the Peace Crusade. The reason why I choose these specific three is because each of these crusades result in contact with Muslims rather than some of the other crusades which failed to even make any contact with Muslims whatsoever or had no impact on them.

I have not decided on the medium I will do my project through but I am considering either a Prezi presentation with a map of the Mediterranean region in the background while the pathing follows the same path of the crusade or some form of a rage comic. Or I could combine both . . . I have visited a few blogs and I have seen a that Nick Fahey plans on using Prezi while Matt Martin and Tim Sunnerberg plan to use memes. Harsh Dedhiya informed me that he will be using storytelling software from xtranormal.com which is something I may do as well.

In terms of information gathering, I plan on using Google and Bing and perhaps different language versions of each to get a different perspective on the crusades. I also plan on taking advantage of the ancient historical databases provided by the library.