[Russel Tarr]

All my Year 12/13 students are familiar with Facebook, so I got them to do a timeline of February-October 1917 using the format of a "Facebook Newsfeed".

It struck me as an interesting way of producing a timeline of events which could easily be adapted for other topic areas.

An example of what we produced can be found here - feel free to make use of it however you like!

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[Lou Phillips]

Love it!
Sadly, most of my students are all on MySpace so may not get it! Did you just copy and paste the images off facebook? At last, an excuse to be spending so long on it during work!

[vickicrabb]

What a fabulous idea - I love this - going to use it in class and see what happens - not sure if the kids here are on facebook, but I'll try.

[Mr. Porte]

That's a cool task - I did something similar with the big 3 at the treaty of versailles - made mock up myspace pages for each country and had students fill in all the details, flag, what they wanted etc.

Can you explain exactly how they managed to create this? Cheers.

[Nick Dennis]

I'm interested to know too as the method I know is painstaking - screen capture then select the bits you want (copy) and then pasting it across into another document.

[Dom_Giles]

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Russel

just when I think even you must be runnin gout of ideas... up you pop with anew one.

I've got a GCSE double lesson this afternoon (Friday) and the DVD machine has broken. I was just wondering what I was going to do. This is going to be brilliant.
It reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=uUzOktgBBrg

Kennedy and Khrushchev msn text messaging during the Cuban crisis

This post has been edited by Dom_Giles: 14 December 2007 - 03:32 PM

[Dafydd Humphreys]

It's a great idea and I've asked the ICT bods to unban MySpace so I can do a 1920s personalities session with my Y12s next week.

[Andrew Field]

Dafydd Humphreys, on Dec 14 2007, 03:20 PM, said:

It's a great idea and I've asked the ICT bods to unban MySpace so I can do a 1920s personalities session with my Y12s next week.

Failing that, just ask a Year 7 to let you know how to bypass the system for the lesson - they'll make you aware of some form of proxy site that'll get you straight in.

[Russel Tarr]

In response to Nick's point about how I got the images, I'm afraid it was just a case of taking a copy of the screen and cropping the images off, then sticking them in a table in Word...I'll upload the original Word version onto my site tomorrow and post a link to it here (I've tried uploading it directly but it looks like the file is too big!)

[Dafydd Humphreys]

Get yourself Firefox with the Snapper add-on and it'll do it far more easily.

[Russel Tarr]

Good tip, thanks!