History of Colonial Latin America

As I get ready to leave for this conference, I’m not able to churn out the on-line lectures as the rate I had hoped. I have two up on WebCT now [and no quizzes yet] when I had hoped to have 4. There will be another up early tomorrow and I hope to have the quizzes up for those up by Wednesday night, if I can find an internet connection. Those three will be all for this week; then I’ll try to have another batch of 3 or 4 up next weekend. See you next week — and enjoy The Mission!

Speaking of missions, this image is of a colonial-era statue of St Philip of Jesus. He was born in Mexico, became a Franciscan priest, and was martyred in the Japanese city of Nagasaki while on a mission in that country in 1597.

You should have already received your Colonial Lives paper from me as an email message with a link to Mavspace. These were good papers and most people are really showing improvement! The cases are so rich that I had an idea — IF no one else worked on your same Colonial Lives case, why don’t you go ahead and do your project on the same case, if you want to?

However there was a certain amount of overlap. 2 people worked on chapter 7; 3 people worked on chapter 10; 3 people worked on chapter 13. So some of those people need to find new chapters for the project.

Monday, March 24, 2008

 
Review class comments: Brandon?

Wednesday’s Graded discussion on Boyer and Spurling – explanation.

Discuss the exams. Questions? Ways to improve the last one?

Review: How do Restall and Mann change our view of colonial Latin American history? How would it affect your teaching of this material?

Discuss The Mission: Is this a “mythic” account?

Discuss Boyer and Spurling “Idolatrous Temples”, 1595 (p.39-53)

Slide Lecture: Sistema de castas– we didn’t get this far!

Here’s another image of Ptolemy’s map from the second century CE, during the time of the Roman Empire. If you don’t see the connection between this and Christopher Columbus — go to WebCT and review the two map lectures that I’ve just posted!

In case you’ve been to WebCT looking in vain for lecture postings, try now. You’ll find PowerPoint files from the first day of lectures, and then a series of “webcasts” which are actually my narration of the PowerPoint slides I show in class.

Hi! I wanted to let you know that you can find the PowerPoint files from Wednesday night’s class if you log in to WebCT and go to our class. Let me know if you have trouble finding or reading them. By next week I hope to be recording the audio that goes along with the slides and that will be up on WebCT as well.

I don’t want to overwhelm you with electronic tools, so we’ll be slowly introducing you to some of the things we’ll be using this semester. Coming up later on the blog: a “can you find the plagiarism”exercise. And later I’ll ask you to use Mavspace to send me an image of colonial Latin America. But for now, get caught up on the Mann book and take a look at WebCT!