We Should've Seen It Coming: The American Civil War

This week in class we looked at the divisions between proslavery and antislavery activists caused by the events in the Election of 1860 and how these divisions led to the American Civil War. We started the week by watching the CrashCourse video on the Civil War. Then, throughout the week, we worked on creating documentaries using Educreations, outlining the events leading up to the Civil War. We used a multimedia website as an outline for the information we would use and found three outside images to feature in our video. My group had a little trouble recording the video: we forgot to add a voice recording over the title slide and added it after the fact, pushing the title slide back to the point in the project in which we recorded it. Educreations is not my favorite recording tool, but it was useful in stringing together our compiled data to highlight the main ideas of our topic.