Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, January 31, 2011,
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Video
"Music videos we made to make teaching history more fun."
History for Music Lovers is very much a place to learn and to laugh. The lyrics to popular songs (both old and new) have been transformed from karaoke into history lessons with a touch of humour.
Topics include...
Men of the Renaissance (The Violent Femmes);
The Black Plague (sung to Gwen Stefani);
The Crusades (Billy Idol); and
The French Revolution (Lady Gaga); embedded below...
Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, October 15, 2010,
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Video
I know this will frighten many Techies, as this is in alpha (if you never take a risk, you never do anything!), but I like the format of this YouTube Time Machine (YTTM).
YTTM allows visitors to pick a year and watch a video from it; it goes all the way back to 1860! Yes I know they didn't have video then but, they did have the very first audio recordings; on YTTM you can listen to them.
This could be great for history lessons and in my case nostalgia.
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I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.
