Welcome to Social 10!

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Welcome to Social 10!
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A Few Guidelines

• Attendance
• Key Parent Email Address be sure its working
  and remind them to check emails daily
• My Stuff/locker -
• Email guidelines please use proper etiquette
• Assignment folder correctly label assignments
  (with name) and submit to the correct folder
• Create word or ppt documents. Do NOT create wsp
  files.No Microsoft Word?
• Download OpenOffice.org
• http//download.cnet.com/OpenOffice-org/3000-18483
  _4-10263109.html
• Due Dates ask for extensions if you need them.
  You are welcome to work ahead, just watch
  previous years tutorial recordings.
• Unit Exams have your key parent email to
  request the password
• Home Page Announcements updated weekly

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What is Globalization?

• Globalization has many definitions, but one might
  regard it as the following
• The process that is making the worlds citizens
  increasingly interdependent economically,
  socially, politically, environmentally, and
  technologically.

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History of Globalization

• Globalization is an historical process that began
  with the first movement of people out of Africa
  into other parts of the world. Traveling short,
  then longer distances, migrants, merchants, and
  others have always taken their ideas, customs,
  and products into new lands. The melding,
  borrowing, and adaptation of outside influences
  can be found in many areas of human life.

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Society and Globalization

• Few societies around the world have gone
  untouched by the myriad influences of
  globalization. And while global integration
  creates many new opportunities for individuals
  and societies as a whole, it also poses new
  challenges.

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• Issue 1 To what extent should globalization
  shape identity?
• Explore the following video....
• Shift Happens Globalization in the
  information age
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vljbI-363A2Q