I have already had a little moan on this Blog about the joys of sourcework in school... I hate it for the most part but see the neccessity for it in teaching History. However, there is one part of my Year 7 course that I love teaching on the Tudors and that is source analysis of Holbein's Henry VIII portrait (for all the wrong reasons) and an analysis of a number of images of Elizabeth I.
Like most adults that work in schools there is still a part of me that is a big kid and when we start examining sources using the Holbein portrait I always set myself a bet as to which student will be the first to notice a traditional piece of clothing covering a certain part of Henry's anatomy and how long it will take for them to mention/ask me about it. This is what makes sources interesting to students and they love examining Henry's image and looking for the hidden messages.
Now each student in my lesson is given a copy of the picture to annotate but the problem we had for a long time was zooming in on specific parts of the portrait - PPT can only do so much - and then we discovered www.zoom.it and we were flying. The free website allows you to grab an image URL off the Internet and create a smoothed out and zoomable image... see below:
This is a simple tool and as the girls complete the worksheet we zoom in on different parts of the portrait to discuss it further and add to their notes. It can be done with any image... I just like the giggling that goes with this one and once again the HTML creator allows it to be embedded in websites, blogs and VLES.
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