Followed a Tweet to this excellent blog post by Tomy Cassidy explaining his idea for getting students to create fake facebook profiles from everyone/thing from Lucifer to a chalk headline!
This would work just as well for historical characters of course, which reminded me of a thread I had seen a while ago on the schoolhistoryforum about using the ‘timeline’ in Facebook to track an historical event (in this case the Russian revolution)
Definitely on the ‘one to try’ list for this year!