I am working closely with the 4th and 5th grade classes at my school so I decided that creating a timeline would fit into their curriculum. I tried a few different time line sites before I found TimeRime.com. It is a great site that is easy to use and allows you to add pictures, videos and text into each event in the timeline. This is a great tool for a classroom. You can invite other students to collaborate with you to create the timeline.
Here is an example of a timeline that was created about Babe Ruth.
You can add hyperlinks to the website that you found your information at, add picture and videos.
It is easy to get started. First you need to create an account with an email address and a password. You can create multiple timelines on one account. Click create new timeline- give it a title and description and you are ready to start adding events. There is a tab called items- add information about your new event and
press save, it is automatically adds to your timeline above. In the text area below students could add additional information about each event.
A class could also create one collective timeline of an event they are studying. Each child could be assigned an event to research and incorporate the details in the extended text box. When the timeline is complete students will be able to see how the events in history unrolled and effected events that happened after.
TimeRime also provides a TimeRime Educational site that allows for a secure environment, no advertising (thats where I found a problem with some of the other sites), admin rights for teachers, a subdomain and a PDF print function. Check it out at: Education.TimeRime.com
This sounds like a dope website! Though when I first saw the name of the site I thought it was more of a website geared toward getting kids to write rhymes to a beat.
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DO you think you'll be able to integrate it into your teaching?
Dave
TIE 542
Those are some interesting websites Elizabeth. I heard of and used edutopia before. However I wasn't aware of Landwich's blog. That site has very informative articles that can help all teachers in all subjects. As long as you have an open mind and are willing to plan accordingly you can be successful at using the resources that they provide or guide you to.
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