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Using social networking in history teaching.

__7 top tips.__ 1. Set students up with accounts on blogs where they can share their opinions on various historical debates 2. Use of ‘Delicious’ (a bookmarking site) to see what links/ work other students have saved 3. Students having an ELGG. An ELGG is a social networking engine that provides framework in which to build a campus wide social network for your school. An ELGG gives students their own weblog, file repository (with podcasting capabilities), an online profile and an RSS reader. 4. Students becoming members of Wiki site ‘Classroom 2.0’ where they can access free workshops and have live conversations about past and current history topics 5. The use of Twitter as a social networking tool to make connections with teachers and other students all over the world, regarding current and future history topics 6. The use of YouTube in teaching to provide visual representations for students, by watching relevant clips and articles about history, rather than reading straight out of a textbook, allowing the students to grasp the full impact of historic events The use of blogs in classrooms makes the teaching and learning aspect of history more informal, rather than just another way of classroom boredom