Good journey …on the roads of the Roman Empire
A journey through history and a short journey with Orbis, an astonishing mapping tool offered by Stanford University. Orbis is a kind of ancient Google Maps that manages all...
Category: History
Pompeii from your home. A virtual tour of the great exhibition of the Grand Palais
Pompeii at the Grand Palais in Paris. This was to be one of the exhibition events of this year 2020. And then the health crisis went through. Pending a postponed opening “to one...
BDnF. The BNF makes bubbles with a free studio to create comics
2020 is the year of the Comic Strip and it starts off quite well with the launch by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France of a new website and free service: the BDnF La fabrique à BD....
Hundreds of thousands of old illuminations online
Among the treasures that libraries around the world host and increasingly share online on the web are the beautiful illuminations. Too fragile to be consulted on the spot,...
Timetoast. Create a timeline easily
Timetoast is a great tool for creating a timeline (or timeline) simply. Alone or with others, this platform offers a good way to learn about the visual storytelling of a phenomenon or a story...
Leo 1944. Relive the landing at child’s height
‘My name is Leo. I am 14 years old and this is my story in 1944.” As we prepare to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Allied Normandy landings, welcome here the beautiful operation of the department of...
The French Academy’s dictionary is online on the internet
Finally? say the bad languages… This passage from the Académie française’s dictionary to the internet is in any case a real success. The Academy’s new digital portal is aimed at the general public...
Ina Jalons. Hundreds of audiovisual resources for the classroom
The INA Jalons portal is a rich educational portal with more than 1850 downloadable audiovisual documents from 1914 to the present day, from the filmed press, television and radio. A...
Chronas. Interactive map of the whole world history
Article updated in November 2021. Chronas is a crazy project that should interest all history buffs. It is a collaborative and interactive map of the entire world history. The idea is to do it...
Google Tour Builder. Telling a story with cards
Google Tour Builder is an online storytelling tool that makes it easy to create and explore stories and places around the world using GoogleEarth mapping. The tool...
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