The Crusades Project: Day 1

Today, I started brainstorming ideas for my Crusades project. I think I'll be doing the First Crusade (not the People's Crusade), the Second Crusade, and the Peace Crusade. I chose these three crusades, because I think they're the ones that had the most impact on the Muslims, which is kind of a big deal, since I'll be writing this from the perspective of the Muslims. I also feel that these three crusades are diverse, since the first one is about bloody massacre, the second about Muslim victory under Saladin, and the peace crusade about negotiations and peace.

I am not too sure about how to do this project, but I have come up with a couple of possibilities...

1. A script, similar to what we did in the Philosophers go to Starbucks thing
2. Then i checked out animated skits online and found www.xtranormal.com
3. A rage comic (or maybe a regular one?)

I am planning on finding all my info online, because it is very convenient and accessible. I tried out a couple of search engines:

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing
4. Sweet Search

Google, Yahoo, and Bing seem to return identical results. There are some that are good, and some that are bad. Then there's just Wikipedia...

I had most success with Sweet Search, because it filtered out the untrustworthy sites and the useless ones. It returned all credible sources (.gov, .edu, etc), but I think it also might have weeded out some perfectly good sources. But overall, I think I'll use Sweet Search the most, and I will check out the other ones to see if there's any good stuff.