I have made a great deal of progress on my project this week. I have not figured out the entirety of the concept. Essentially, it will be a trivia game on World War II propaganda in popular culture on a WordPress site. It will also include historical information that teachers could use in their classrooms or that other users can use to learn more about the subject before or after the game. As of right now, I have found an online tool that I will use to create the game: OpinionStage. This platform lets users create polls and trivia games that they can put on their website. A plugin on WordPress connects the user’s accounts to make it a seamless process. One of the reasons I chose this tool was that it allowed users to add images and videos to the slides. I wanted to show different pictures and clips of movies and radio programs during this era so that users could answer questions, making this aspect especially useful.  This past weekend, I decided to make a test quiz and add it to a private post on my WordPress site for the class to see if it would be a workable program, which I very happily discovered that it was, and the pictures and videos worked perfectly.

 My next step is to find and narrow down the sources I want to include in the quiz. Hearing Jess Pritchard-Ritter say, “Dream big, plan small,” made me think about the many sources I have to choose from this period and subject. I would love to create this huge website detailing everything about this subject and including all the examples in the quiz. However, as Jess said, I don’t have much time to include everything in one semester, especially during the shortened summer semester. That is why one of my next steps is to narrow down what I want and what needs to be included. The Hope Diamond Curse Project also made me think about what I want to include in the historical background. I liked how Jaimie included questions at the end of each section for people to think about and for teachers to use in their classrooms. I did not realize that just adding historical information is enough for people to grasp information. It is especially useful for teachers to test students’ comprehension and historical thinking skills. While I was only going to include historical background, I am going to take that idea of adding questions and add it to my overall plan.