Any world events and historical moments that take place in the current timeline are immediately covered by real-time video and shared across numerous platforms via the internet.  This allows you the unique opportunity to turn your classroom into a time machine.

If you want to witness something that is considered to be of historical, cultural or sporting importance anywhere around the globe, it is often easy to find a link that will allow you to witness a particular moment no matter where you happen to be.

The digital age has also created an opportunity for students to become more familiar with significant world events from our past, by presenting them in a format that they are entirely familiar with. Video recording technology maybe be a relatively new phenomenon but through the hugely popular portal that we all know as YouTube, students now have the chance to “witness” events that they are studying, like the Gettysburg Address and watch Martin Luther King deliver his iconic and hugely significant “I have a dream” speech.

This infographic helps to identify resources that aim to bring historical events to life and engage students in a more dynamic way than is possible by simply reading about these significant moments in a textbook.

If the classroom studies are focused on the Spanish-American War then you can find a comprehensive list of over 65 videos relating to the subject and even if there is not actual footage available for obvious technical reasons, you can often find a re-enactment or even someone explaining Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in easy-to-understand terms.

As you will see from information, YouTube has the ability to transport a classroom full of students back to any moment in time from history, and bring a famous historical moment to life in front of their own eyes.

Infographic credit to: http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/