{"id":699,"date":"2008-04-05T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/random-name-picker-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:58:14","slug":"random-name-picker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/random-name-picker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Name Picker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple tool which is a great way of rounding off a unit and revising important dates, concepts and people. It can also be used to randomly pick a name from a list of students. You can copy and paste your data direct from Word, Excel and other programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/classtools.net\/education-games-php\/fruit_machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Random Name Picker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple tool which is a great way of rounding off a unit and revising important dates, concepts and people. It can also be used to randomly pick a name from a list of students. You can copy and paste your data direct from Word, Excel and other programs. 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