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Zooming Interactive Timelines

10.15.2011 · Posted in History, online, timeline

Timeglider Website Create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/panning interactive timelines. Timeglider is great for history classes, project planning, genealogy, and more. It's like Google Maps, but for time. What do you think of Timeglider? ...

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BBC Dimensions: exploring the human scale of events and places in history

Dimensions is an experimental project from the BBC that allows you to compare the scale of different types of events with something that we can all recognise. There are two parts of the project “How many really?” and “How big really?“ “How many really?” is all about the numbers of people that were involved in ...

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A History of Teaching and Learning from 500 Billion Words

10.08.2011 · Posted in Google, History, books, culture, data, language, vocabulary, words

    By analysing over 500 billion words the Google Books Ngram Viewer allows you to compare the history of terminology and language from approximately 5 million digitised books. The graph above shows my search for the terms “teaching” and “learning” in publications between the years 1500 and 2010. What fascinates me is how the ...

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Celebrate the Best of Humanity

07.11.2011 · Posted in History, online

My Hero Website The My Hero Project is designed to help teachers and students take part in an interactive online multimedia journal to celebrate the best of humanity. Add your own essays, images and videos. What do you think of My Hero? ...

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Atlas of World History

03.17.2011 · Posted in History, atlas, online

Atlas of World History Website The Atlas covers Africa, Asia, and Europe to the year 1000. Every country name on every map is a link to events and legacies for that time and place. What do you think of the Atlas of World History? ...

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10 Centuries of European History in 5 Minutes

11.15.2010 · Posted in History, Resources, Video

Here is a brilliant animation which history teachers might find useful which shows the changing face of European borders over the last 1000 years - all nicely wrapped up into a five minute presentation. Why not also check out my other website: www.frog... ...

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