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Twitter Trend: Live-tweeting Historical Events - SocialTimes

Twitter Trend: Live-tweeting Historical Events - SocialTimes | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
A relatively new trend on Twitter is to live tweet historical events as if they were happening in real-time. Have you followed any of these events?

Well, the latest live-tweet event, as reported by The Daily Dot, is President John F.
malek's curator insight, November 23, 2013 7:41 AM

What a tweet line: history is no longer in a book or a documentary. It now comes on Twitter. Thank you Cendrine

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Timelines.tv - Video Timelines for History Students

Timelines.tv - Video Timelines for History Students | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Timelines.tv is a nice little resource for history teachers to bookmark and share with their students. On Timelines.tv you can find six timelines of important eras in U.S. and European history. Each timeline includes short (3-10 minute) videos about people and events in the era. The timelines also include pictures and short text descriptions. The six timelines currently available are A History of Britain, The American West, Medicine Through Time, American Voices, The Edwardians, and Nazi Germany. More timelines appear to planned for publication in the future.

 


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Gust MEES's curator insight, February 9, 2013 6:48 AM

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Rudolf Kabutz's curator insight, May 11, 2013 4:41 AM

Using media innovatively to teach history - when will such creative media be used to teach physics, mathematics and ... future thinking?