Photoshop: Bringing Students Around the World (No Visa Required)

Teaching Globalization in Ghana is a difficult undertaking. It is sometimes hard for students in remote areas with limited access to technology to imagine a world outside their own experience.  Photoshop solved that problem and allowed me to bring my students to me. I took a photo from one of our social studies classes, where they were acting out how Ghana became colonized by the British. They posed in front of the school as the 8 Fante Chiefs who signed the Bond of 1844, the first official document of colonial government. The Bond is a key part of their history, and also celebrated on 6 March 1957 when Ghana became the first independent nation in Africa. The Queen granted Ghana's independence on the anniversary of the Bond.

Using Photoshop I was able to put the "8 Fante Chiefs" in Time Square - while the picture is of the small boys I taught - it should illustrate their understanding of government, like one might do for Standard 5. It shows that independence has no limits, globalization is a process, and is fun at the same time. It could have made for a great lesson.