http://www.timemaps.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:17 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:17 +0000 Mr Gove could do with the sort of rigorous thinking which the teaching of history can promote http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/mr-gove-and-all-that Wed, 15 May 2013 16:52:40 +0000 Enhanced product images in Topic TimeMaps http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/historical-images Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:53:42 +0000 Here are two units of suggested teaching ideas covering ancient history. Please adapt them to your needs. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/ancient-history-teacher-guidance Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:12:08 +0000 Not to learn about the origins of our global civilization makes our understanding of the modern world inadequate http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/singapore-2-teach-global-history Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:39:26 +0000 Just for fun - a mini-timemap of JRR Tolkien's Midde-earth in the Third Age! http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/a-brief-history-of-middle-earth-in-the-third-age Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:24:00 +0000 A first look at Singapore's History Curriculum http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/learning-history-in-singapore-part-1 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:07:46 +0000 TimeMaps on the BBC and Chrome Store App http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/on-the-bbc Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:23:44 +0000 Continuing the teaching topics in the Western Tradition http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/teaching-the-western-tradition-part-3 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:18:29 +0000 More topics in the Western Tradition - Renaissance, Expansion, Reformation http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/teaching-the-western-tradition-part-2 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:54:27 +0000 The history of two very different government systems http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/history-of-governments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:20:04 +0000 A first run-through the western Tradition for younger students http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/western-tradition Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:10:21 +0000 A framework for world history in 12 dates that all western, English-speaking people should know http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-framework Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:28:46 +0000 Students should first learn the overall framework of their country's history- Case Study: USA http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/usa-history-framework Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:56:02 +0000 The framework of history and how knowing more than you can see effects you. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/why-you-need-a-history-framework Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:26:42 +0000 How to frame English history in to a timeline consisting of 7 dates. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/timeline-of-english-history Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:59:27 +0000 Students do need to memorize information - despite claims to the contrary http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/teaching-world-history Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:29:53 +0000 Can world history be distilled into a single, coherent timeline and still make sense? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/what-is-included-in-a-single-timeline-of-world-history Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:11:04 +0000 More on how a World History "TimeMap" as opposed to a "Timeline" .. a more easy way to see how events occurred from multiple origins. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-timemap-rather-than-timeline Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:23:59 +0000 A slight deviation from world history timelines - to the inaccuracy of world history in the media. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-gone-wrong Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:34:19 +0000 Creating a world history timeline is an incredibly complex task. TimeMaps allow more functionality than a traditional list of dates and events, which offer more flexibility.. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-timeline-enhanced Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:32:49 +0000 If you can organise the information of a chapter of world history into a cohesive timeline, along with periodization, then you are practising high level historical thinking skills. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/using-world-history-timelines Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:26:02 +0000 What can be gained from reading historical fiction? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/historical-fiction Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:28:53 +0000 Topic TimeMaps are our curriculum materials for schools and they now have a home of their own.. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/topic-timemaps-shop Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:27:18 +0000 What you will get from the TimeMap of World History is a visualisation of history and narrative that connects the world together http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/connecting-world-history-together Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:05:20 +0000 How building the "Big Picture" of history aids understanding and knowledge. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/big-picture Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:06:43 +0000 The TimeMap of World History now stretches from 3500BC up to 2005 and a new level of detail is added! http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/more-world-history Thu, 17 May 2012 12:31:11 +0000 We have had a lot of new visitors to the website this month, as well as people sign up to our newsletter from all around the world - particularly Australia and Canada, so a big "HELLO" to you! We are pleased to tell you about lots of new content in the TimeMap of World History, which is bringing us to the cusp of the 20th century, as well as a discount code that we hope you will find appealing. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/timemaps-enews-february Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:03:33 +0000 Essay in Agora, the quarterly publication for History Teachers Assoication of Victoria, Australia (Vol 46, No. 3, 2011): "Giving access to all the world's history: an online atlas for teachers and students", by Peter Britton http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/access-all-world-history Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:06:47 +0000 I found this link via the History Teachers Network on LinkedIn. The group does not always have great resources but I really liked this one. It clearly and succinctly explains how history is a core skill for learning, and how it is relevant to everyone. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/history-core-to-all-learning Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:43:29 +0000 Democracy has been rare throughout world history, but the upheavals in the Middle East may show that it is now the only viable way to govern. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-and-democracy Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:28:54 +0000 TimeMaps voted the best social studies website 2010 http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/best-social-studies-website-2010 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:27:27 +0000 An article criticising the Texas TEKS makes me feel uneasy http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/world-history-texas Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:12:15 +0000 What happened to the Ancient Egyptians after they were famous? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/egyptians-or-arabs Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:24:50 +0000 We've just put new maps up on our atlas, and it's made me wonder about Europe http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/the-expansion-of-europe-in-the-early-middle-ages Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:11:29 +0000 An important lesson of history is that the well-being of nations and empires depends upon the effectiveness of their public institutions http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/admininstrative-institutions-matter Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:30:45 +0000 There seems to be a mismatch in modern textbooks between the rise of classical Indian civilization, on the one hand, and the date of the Buddha, on the other http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/when-did-indian-civilization-start Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:05:39 +0000 Apologies for the gap - I've been to the NCSS conference in Denver, Colorado, and also been developing three new Dynamic History Map titles (Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Greece) http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/a-trip-to-america-and-new-dynamic-history-map-titles Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:19:08 +0000 Steppe nomads helped change the ethnic make-up of central Europe by encouraging the expansion of the Slavs http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/germans-slavs-and-steppe-ponies Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:32:28 +0000 The transition from Ancient to Medieval Europe can be hard to pin down; but not in Italy, where the Roman Empire itself was the main culprit http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/the-end-of-roman-italy Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:38:51 +0000 Why is England called England, and did the Britons survive the Anglo-Saxon settlement? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/good-ol-anglo-saxons Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:52:59 +0000 Still working on Europe in AD 750, a new page on Spain and Portugal has been added http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/spain-and-portugal-in-750 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:25:31 +0000 An update on our atlas - and a question for you: were stirrups key to the rise of knights? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/a-question-of-stirrups Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:45:19 +0000 After a long pause we are beginning to put up new pages in our atlas of world history http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/a-new-page-in-history Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:07:43 +0000 This article explains how to use the TimeMap of World History to set the scene when teaching the Rise of the Roman Empire http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/europe-pre-rome Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:01:10 +0000 I've been on holiday and.... http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/dont-knock-western-civilization Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:09 +0000 Facebook Page set up... please follow http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/facebookpage Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:24:39 +0000 Were the ancient Celts a real people, or were they invented by early modern Historians? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/ancient-celts Wed, 26 May 2010 13:20:55 +0000 A debate took place at the Historical Association's Annual Conference entitled "Does Content Matter?". Here are some of my thoughts! http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/does-content-matter Tue, 18 May 2010 11:39:55 +0000 We recently put up the article on Europe 1000-500 BC, and this is my second blog entry on this topic. As you will have guessed, it has provoked quite a bit of thought in me! One of the things I have found interesting is, why some peoples are open to civilizing influences from outside, and others aren't. Specifically, why did the tribes of Italy soon take up living in cities, writing in a Greek-style alphabet, electing magistrates to govern themselves and so on, and the tribes of Gaul didn't? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/celts-koreans-civilization Tue, 11 May 2010 17:19:58 +0000 The Ancient Greeks were hugely important to the future of the Europe, but at the time they were largely un-noticed. How does a situation occur that changes everything but is not seen at the time? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/importance-of-ancient-greece Fri, 07 May 2010 20:18:32 +0000 At the end of the second millennium BC catastrophe hit the great Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and the Near East. There Mycenaean and Hittite kingdoms vanished, and the cities along the Syrian coast were sacked. This disaster came from the west, in the shape of invasions erupting from Europe. What caused this movement of peoples? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/causes-of-catastrophe Thu, 06 May 2010 11:42:14 +0000 The European Bronze age stimulated trade to find the materials needed to make it, the effects of which were vast. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/european-bronze-age Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:59:48 +0000 Who were the Indo-Europeans? People on horses or the original farmers? http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/who-were-the-indo-europeans Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:44:42 +0000 Article on the transition from hunter-gathering to farming in Europe around 3500 BC... a brutal affair. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/european-hunter-gatherer-farming Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:51:19 +0000 Lesson plan to help students understand the crucial importance of linkages to and fro between ancient Middle Eastern civilizations http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/ancient-middle-east-interconnectivity Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:53:02 +0000 This is the first of a series of blogs tracking the building of the TimeMap - a tool for exploring world history http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/how-to-explore-world-history Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:49:33 +0000 More of a "chronological framework" needs to be taught in schools, says Neil Ferguson in the Guardian. That is exactly what we do! http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/history-teaching-needs-to-change Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:13:47 +0000 The modern world is a sum of all that has happened in history. Without knowing history, we do not know who we are, or where we came from. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/why-history-is-important Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:41:59 +0000 Maps and multi-touch environments http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/multitouch Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:31:53 +0000 Our new website is now up and running - but running very slowly at the moment, so please bear with us! http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/well-were-up-and-runningor-rather-strolling Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:06:39 +0000 TimeMaps interactive history maps for teacher presentations or as individual study guides. http://www.timemaps.com/blog.xml/0/1/products Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:00:38 +0000