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The 3D-Gallery Generator
This is a digital tool from Russell Tarr’s popular www.classtools.net site. Your students create a virtual 3D gallery. To do this they need to act as the curator of their own exhibition. Curation requires them to develop criteria to decide what to select to put into their exhibition. They then create the gallery and justify…
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Using Arts and Culture to Overcome Barriers to Field Trips
Getting students out of school to visit historic sites is difficult. I teach in the UK and here we have to fill in loads of paperwork – risk assessments, parent permission slips. It’s all a bit of a nightmare. But field trips to historic sites are a fundamental part of the magic of our subject.…
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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…
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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…
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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…