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This page is designed to help you add the emergent technologies that will allow you to excite and engage students, digital natives in active learning the topics of your unit plan.

Uses of Timelines in Education

Timelines are classic teaching tools used to help students visually understand concepts of chronology and history. Web 2.0 timeline tools are being used to allow students to collaboratively build multimedia timelines. They've been incorporated into social studies, history, environmental science and art history classes.

Timelining Approach article.

Timelines: Timeless Teaching Tools

Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life

Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction

Civil Rights Timeline

Google NEWS Timeline and Similar Image Search - New! just invented!

Jeopardy Labs -- templates and more

Scribblar - Simple, Effective Online collaboration

Subject Themed Sites

Subject-themed

Mathway- This helps students struggling with a math problem by taking them through the problem step-by-step.

ChartGizmo- Create graphs and charts online.

Yourtake- Use the SCAN Method to investigate current events. (Free subscription until the end of the school year)

Free Rice- For every correct answer on this site, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Program.

One Word- The user is presented with one word and the user has 60 seconds to write about that word.

Specific Program Links

xtimeline- easy way to create and collaborate on web 2.0 style multimedia timelines with videos, photos and text (FREE)
Dipity - Similar functionality to xtimeline, collaborate and share timelines with the added feature that adding location data for an event automatically inserts a Google map in the entry.
MIT simile - great tool, but requires programming skills to use effectively (FREE, creative commons)
circavie - allows you to create attractive timelines, but lacks the social and collaborative functionalities that xtimeline has (FREE)

Digital Storytelling

A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero's journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow. (Brian Alexander & Alan)

Tools for Digital Storytelling:

Google Docs

Voicethread

Slideshare

50 Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story

Mapping Tools:
Umapper		Create and embed interactive flash maps.
Quikmaps		Draw and add your own landmarks and annotations to Google maps. Embed into your own website.
Mapskip		Explore the world through shared stories and pictures about all the places in our lives. Upload and share your stories, photos and sounds.
CommunityWalk		Create personal, community and professional maps. Show the map on a website or blog. Add videos, photos, comments and more.
Geocommons		Visual analytics through maps. Style your map with shaded thematics, proportional symbols, graduated icons, points, lines, and polygons. Quickly find data you need with easy search tools. Manage your own data using tags and then share your work with everyone.