‘Hangouts in History’ - Bringing the past to life

Between 2012 & 2015 Creative Lab explored different ways to use, well, Zoom. But back then we called it “Hangouts” (and later “Google Meet”.
For example bringing history into the classroom by using actors to recreate history and help teachers who are trying to transport their students back more than 700 years in time to plague-era Europe. But we had a hunch that technology might be one way to make this subject a bit more participatory. With this in mind, Google's Creative Lab teamed up with Grumpy Sailor to help a class of year 8 students from Bowral ‘video conference’ with 1348, in what we became the first of 5 “Hangouts in History”.
[Unfortunately we were 8 yrs too early for the pandemic.]