{"id":673,"date":"2011-03-14T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:35:00","slug":"making-history-again-at-loughborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2011\/03\/14\/making-history-again-at-loughborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Making History (again) at Loughborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MakeHistoryScreenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330\" title=\"MakeHistoryScreenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MakeHistoryScreenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of new Make History authoring tool\" width=\"403\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/08\/MakeHistoryScreenshot.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/08\/MakeHistoryScreenshot-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/08\/MakeHistoryScreenshot-386x300.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>Working with Professor Chris Szejnmann, Head of History, as part of his Teaching Innovation Award, we&#8217;ve developed a new e-learning authoring tool called <strong>Make History<\/strong> which enables Chris and his colleagues easily to create Flash-based historical timelines without the need for any technical skills.\u00a0Each timeline\u00a0is exported by the tool to a single *.zip file which can be uploaded to Learn.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of free timeline authoring tools available on the Web but the Loughborough tool scores in terms of its suitability for HE.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve set the start and end dates for your timeline, you can add an introduction, colour-coded themes and events, and each event can have an image or short audio . video clip associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>Since my original post about <strong>Make History<\/strong> last August, the tool has had further development work and is now close to fulfilling its potential.\u00a0Applications of the tool are not limited\u00a0to History; it could be used in any\u00a0other discipline where it is useful to illustrate the development of theories etc through a scrolling timeline.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to try it out, get in touch via c.f.g.shields [at] lboro.ac.uk . You can also view the <strong>Make History<\/strong> support pages at <a title=\"Make History support pages\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/makehistory\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/makehistory<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with Professor Chris Szejnmann, Head of History, as part of his Teaching Innovation Award, we&#8217;ve developed a new e-learning authoring tool called Make History which enables Chris and his colleagues easily to create Flash-based historical timelines without the need for any technical skills.\u00a0Each timeline\u00a0is exported by the tool to a single *.zip file which<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2011\/03\/14\/making-history-again-at-loughborough\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-make-history-timelines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}