Overview Collaborative history lesson for students learning English using Prezi as presentation tool. Description As a warming up activity the students are invited to turn on their smartphones and launch Kahoot to do a short quiz on the main inventions and inventors of the industrial revolution. Then the teacher presents the Prezi template that he has Full Article…
How old is a tree?
Not really e-learning but thought I’d share this anyway – a great idea for really understanding how old trees are as well as getting some sense of history. You could hype it up a bit by getting the birds in the tree tweeting to each other about what they could see at any point in Full Article…
Haiku Deck
Have just been looking at Jeroen Hendrick’s blog mediaatelier. Jeroen is one of the Taccle team but also has his own website and there are some great posts on there. It’s in Dutch but it took me about ten minutes to run his category list through Google translate, click on a category I fancied, find a Full Article…
Facebook History News Feed
Check out Facebook News Feed History of the World: World War I to World War II I love this – can your pupils set one up for other periods in history or for particular events?
Mapping human rights
Age group: 12 to 15 Overview myHistro is an online tool that allows us to create timelines based on maps, which can include text, images and video. It’s online, free, simple and fun to use! By creating timelines, students can organize and explain events in a dynamic and creative way. In this activity we ask Full Article…
Animating the Past.
Who doesn’t love the ever-popular Wallace and Gromit? Stop motion animation isn’t limited to claymation; Tim Burton used stop-motion and puppets to create The Nightmare Before Christmas. Learners can use just about anything in their stop-motion animation, and thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is super easy! Necessary skills before the activity – How to Full Article…