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  • Using Google Apps – Google Forms in History class

    Using Google Apps – Google Forms in History class

    I want to share one of the useful digital tools that I use with my classes. We have started using Google Forms and my students are really enjoying the process. It is easy to sign up for a Google Apps account and to start using Google Forms for different purposes in the classroom. There are…

  • Using ThingLink…

    Using ThingLink…

    …to help your students analyse historical sources and to revise for exams Getting started: It takes 5 minutes to sign up for the free version of www.ThingLink.com and the free version is quite enough to enable you to provide useful demonstrations and activities for your students, or for them to sign up and design their…

  • TED Ed – Lessons worth sharing indeed

    TED Ed – Lessons worth sharing indeed

    The well-worn cliché of feeling like a kid in a candy store happens to be the only thing that came to my mind when I first got acquainted with TED Ed. If anything, this feeling only intensifies when digging deeper. And the best thing is you don’t have to be particularly savvy when it comes…

  • Facebook and Fakebook

    Facebook and Fakebook

    It’s time for Santa and Elves and if we keep playing with our imagination let us look to the online world. If we imagine a big microscope that can look behind web pages, codes and stuff we could probably see the smallest parts of the digital universe. And the smallest parts are just two numbers:…

  • History Pin

    History Pin

    In the last blog my colleague Pascal described how the Historiana Learning Team had searched for digital tools that could be used to enhance historical learning. In the first blog about an actual tool I thought I would write about my favourite – HistoryPin.