Progress on Crusades Project 3

How do you hope to accomplish your goal?

I have chosen to make a Prezi for my project and I plan to take advantage of the pathing of frames in Prezi to make it go through the path of each Crusade and then focus on the perspective of the crusades of three generations of fictional characters from the same families (since there is at least a 120 year gap between the First and Peace crusade).


How and where are you finding your information?

I mainly have used Bing, Google, and the ABC CLIO database.

I have find a few links that will help me on my project such as:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.asp#The First Crusade

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/472/bk2_472.htm

http://ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Feature/Story/1744581?cid=1744582&terms=first+crusade

The ancient world history database has good information on the crusades although you will have to look deeper to find evidence on how Muslims would have felt or events from the crusade that would provoke a type of response.

Also, a man named Fulcher of Chartres was a first-hand witness of the events of the crusade.

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/sterk/Practicum/fulcher.pdf

Page 91 (according to the actual book pages) has a description of the bloodiness of the siege on Jerusalem

Is one search engine proving to be more useful than another?

The only other search engine besides Google that I have used in this project is Bing. I find the results on Bing to be relatively on par with Google. Using Bing while searching for the Muslim perspective on the Crusaders, a book name came up as a related search titled "The Crusades Islamic Perspective" and there is a sample of the book on Google Books here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=UalnoF5MBHMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

However, I feel that the related search terms with Bing are more helpful in research over Google's related search terms.

What problems are you having with finding the information?

It is hard to judge whether or not a site is a trustworthy source since the author may have a bias in favor of the Muslims during the crusades or of the Christians. There are also many Christian-related sites with information regarding the crusades that come up with using Google and Bing which makes finding good information harder.

Why have you chosen to display your understanding in this way?

I feel that Prezi is a great way to visually present information and it will benefit me more in the future when I need to look back on the crusades if I have an interactive presentation that can be viewed from any computer or on the iPad with the Prezi App