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Teaching Gender Equality through Public Monuments: Using the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit and Europeana’s Sources to Explore Representation and Memory in the Classroom
If you were to count the statues in your local town, village, or city, how many would you find that represent women? Despite women making up more than half of Europe’s population, most of the statues you’ll come across commemorate the lives and achievements of men. Even when women do appear in public art, they…
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Click2Map
www.click2map.com is a simple to use tool enabling you, or your students, to create annotated maps. We have used it with students who need to revise the battles of the Western Front. Students posted the key facts and a picture onto a map. The process of looking up the information from their notes and locating…
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Digital platforms: teaching your history students beyond the classroom!
A quick review of the landscape! When I was at school (at some time in the far and distant past), no teacher could continue to teach me from a distance. I was a good student, so my file was always in order, but I can’t say I really had a clear sense of the whole…
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VR in the History Classroom
Previous experiences of VR compared to VR today I remember my first experience of virtual reality. It was in the early nineties and I’d have been about twelve. I went to a computer games arcade and they had a virtual reality machine. You had to put a ridiculously heavy helmet on and these weird smelly…
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Skitch: having a quick sketch to improve history learning
Quite often in my class I want to draw on top of a source, or onto a bit of writing I have on my whiteboard. I cannot quite work out how the complicated interactive whiteboard pens work. That was where Skitch came to the rescue. Skitch is a free iPad or Android app that allows…