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Teaching history with ICT
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What, why and how primary teachers can use technology to develop historical understanding in their classroom
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History in Motion makes it easy to create, share, and explore animated
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This technology is a useful tool to help primary students make connections to past events and places. Create historical scenarios, animate events and communicate using History in Motion. 
Zara Radley's curator insight,
May 31, 2021 4:33 AM
Another wonderful multimedia tool for presenting information for easy understanding in class. This one is very specific to history!
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Move over, Facebook—if you teach middle or high schoolers, you know that Instagram is one of the most popular social media channels for teens and tweens today. And while it may not seem like it at first, there are many applications for Instagram in the classroom.
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How would a famous person in history use instagram?
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March 15, 2015 9:24 PM
Catherine Smyth's insight: How would a famous person in history would use instagram?
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A practical guide for constructing digital stories.
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August 3, 2015 9:13 PM
A practical guide for constructing digital stories.
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The Digital Commmonwealth team have been working on producing a resource which helps people develop digital storytelling skills. The handbook is intended for use by the participants of the project,...
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Digital Storytelling lesson plans and materials.
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The culmination of my quest for more powerful learning grounded in theory and research came when recently I conducted an experiment in pushing constructionism into the digital age.
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Drawing on educational research, this article opens up new ways of thinking about learning.
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A classroom teacher talks about how the process of digital storytelling helped immerse her students in the past as they learnt about colonial times.
Education Creations's curator insight,
June 5, 2014 9:13 PM
This site is a good example of how to use a digital story telling tool in your history classroom.
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Mary Westcott's curator insight,
March 1, 2016 10:14 AM
Maybe a tad too complex for our young students, but still a nice way of understanding the foundations of storytelling!! 
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March 11, 2016 12:22 AM
Maybe a tad too complex for our young students, but still a nice way of understanding the foundations of storytelling!! 
Salena Argar's curator insight,
May 17, 2017 6:31 AM
Seven steps to the perfect story is a great visual representation of how to build a story. This clearly explains the process of how students can construct their narrative and the types of characters they will use. I would definitely use this in my classroom to help students understand the process of creating a narrative.
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An amazing kid-driven blog devoted to teaching how to create animations. The three "chefs" identify useful apps and others tools so that anyone can whip up an animation or film.
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Create a historical narrative using digital stories. Consider the substance of the story as well as technical aspects using a storyboard to plan.
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Create QR codes (or get students to create a code) for artifacts or documents about a history topic. This site has links to different apps and a template for tracking QR codes.
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This interactive timeline technology allows you to create a mashup using maps, text, video and pictures.
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May 27, 2013 8:55 PM
Create a story of Australia's history using this online interactive timeline technology that allows you to combine maps, photos, video and text.
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A practical guide to using Claymation in the primary classroom. Use Claymation to develop an historical narrative. Students can recreate historical biographies or historical stories using historical data.
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Primary students LOVE claymation. Claymation is an animation using characters made out of clay. It is a hands-on and engaging activity that is especially useful in teaching history.
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Gone are the days when PowerPoint was your only option for presenting material. Today, there are lots of web 2.0 tools out there to make presentations fun and engaging. Popular tools like Glogster allow manipulation of images, animations, and other graphics to make digital "posters," and I feel like there's a new web-based image editing tool popping up every day. Surely one of these image editors could be harnessed to create a digital poster for free, right? Via Maree Whiteley
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May 27, 2013 7:33 PM
I think this is a great Web 2.0 tool. Students will have a wonderful time making their visual presentations more interesting.
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Capturing the magic rampant in classrooms and celebrating teachers through mini-documentaries
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An innovative project designed to support the making of class movies and documentaries.
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How technology can further STEM learning through the environment, both inside and outside the classroom. An educator toolkit is available free at - http://go...
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Although this video focuses on geography and science topics, it has a range of ideas that can be applied to teaching history. I love how the students are using a range of technologies to record and collect data. There is a real sense of purpose to their learning and the different technologies are useful and engaging. Getting outside of the classroom to teach history is essential.
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May 21, 2013 2:33 AM
So much potential for developing geographical understanding in the primary classroom.
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Why Scoopit Is Becoming An Indispensable Learning Tool.... Curation is a valuable skill for today’s learner. In a culture of content overload, members that provide great content to their audience will be recognized leaders in network communities. Optimally, we equip students to differentiate good content from bad in preparation for their further education and careers. Curating an online topic (and allowing comments) also increases self-awareness and provides additional insight from others. The nuances of sharing content and writing to an audience become much better understood through interactivity between the curator and participating audience. Via Maree Whiteley, Catherine Smyth
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I think the scope for Scoop it is sensational. It's a great way to organise, filter, select and highlight online digital resources around a topic, theme or idea.
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March 9, 2013 3:06 AM
Students as curators...using critical thinking skills to collect, evaluate and analyze content; they may identify trends from discourse; they develop writing skills in original expression; and they interact, communicate and publish to a global audience. But perhaps more importantly, students practice digital citizenship and personal responsibility to lifelong learning...love it!
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March 9, 2013 3:07 AM
Students use critical thinking skills to collect, evaluate and analyze content; they may identify trends from discourse; they develop writing skills in original expression; and they interact, communicate and publish to a global audience. But perhaps more importantly, students practice digital citizenship and personal responsibility to lifelong learning...love it!
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What do you want to create today? Explore a menu of possibilities for creating Interactive Writing, Narrative Art, a Radio Show, a Geo Map, an e-book and more... Via Maree Whiteley
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This site presents a study of
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Having an online web presence is what most schools nowadays would see as an essential resource. And nowadays, with more and more mobile phone owners in a school community, a natural extension might seem to be having a mobile phone app for the school too. Via Miss Noor , Dr. Joan McGettigan, Christine Heine, AlGonzalezinfo
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Digital storytelling resources from Microsoft in Education. The storyboard templates are useful.
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May 20, 2013 10:02 PM
Historical narratives have a powerful impact on children's historical thinking.
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Use Animoto to create videos from photos, video clips, words and music.
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Curated by Catherine Smyth
My background is in primary teaching but a recent shift to higher education has ignited a passion for research. I love thinking about how people learn and the role that technology might play in this. I'm very interested in historical thinking in K-6.
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