{"id":5473,"date":"2020-11-07T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2020-11-07T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T11:07:31","slug":"using-youtube-comments-to-identify-historiographical-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/using-youtube-comments-to-identify-historiographical-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Using YouTube comments to identify historiographical debates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/h1>\n

Identifying the key debates between historians on central topics is an important way of engaging students with their studies. A simple way of doing this is to direct them to the comments underneath YouTube videos. These tend to fall into two categories: those that are angry, which give an indication of the passion which the topic generates; and those which are more measured, which are useful for identifying some of the key evidence that historians use on either side of the argument.<\/p>\n

Case Study: The Spanish Civil War<\/h1>\n

In my first lesson on the Causes of the Spanish Civil War, I directed students to watch a short video clip about the exhumation of Franco last year, and then they used the comments underneath to get an idea of how divisive a figure he is, and why. They seemed to find it a really engaging ‘hook’ – this screenshot gives an idea of how you might try something similar:<\/p>\n

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Taking it further<\/h1>\n

Students should be encouraged to research further to identify which particular historians have argued the perspectives provided by the commentators underneath the video.<\/p>\n

Students could (politely!) reply to some of the comments they disagree with, making sure they back up their points with evidence.<\/p>\n

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Overview Identifying the key debates between historians on central topics is an important way of engaging students with their studies. A simple way of doing this is to direct them to the comments underneath YouTube videos. These tend to fall into two categories: those that are angry, which give an indication of the passion which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[514,172,516,515,513],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}