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=Welcome to Medieval History Facebook=

This is what the medieval peoples would have created if Facebook had existed back in the day, and if large groups of people ever got together to create online pages. This is a project, but it will become a tool for next year's seventh grade. I invite history dorks everywhere to see the connections, explore the relationships, and enjoy the patterns that exist in history. Many peoples, including religions, cultural and ethnic groups, and even some inventions/artifacts are represented here. Please feel free to use this space in whatever way you can to learn. I hope you have a thought provoking time making it and hope that it is useful to others, and not just to "one more thing to do" for Miss Theresa's class.

Your task is to create pages for the peoples who have been influential in the past. This is a collaborative effort between both classes. There is a template for you to follow, then please add your own content that is relevant and accurate. The trick here, and what makes it like Facebook, is that you will link your peoples to others. There has to be a reason though, they needed to have traded with or influenced each other in an important way...just like your friends on Facebook. The only real difference is that you will have a bibliography here. Because you are doing this for a final project, you are creating a profile for an important person or group that we have studied this year. Show your creativity on your pages and find friends for your people to establish the connections. As you do in Facebook, stay in the present tense; you are writing as though you are the group you are creating a page for. Have fun and good luck.
 * Here are the instructions for students:**


 * To begin:** (if you are the type to get easily frustrated, or computers sorta scare you, go click on help (up in the right corner of this page) and watch the tutorials. Short and sweet, they will help you get started...for everyone else:

Click Sample Page Select all the text and copy it to your clipboard. Select your page from the navigation menu on the left. Click on the edit tab of your person or group's page. Paste the text from your clipboard. Change the example text to your own text. Be sure to save your changes frequently. The "floating toolbar" is useful when you have written a bunch. If your formatting gets all wonky, "cancel" refresh the page and create a new page. Just a reminder that this works best in Firefox and not at all in Safari, Explorer is fine. Make sure to link to friends and post on walls everywhere...come on, this is the entire point! Make friends, insert video from other places online by clicking on the little tv icon to insert any kind of widget. Be creative in your posts and always stick to present tense even if you have been dead for several hundred of years. Keep up the excellent work!