Creative Learning Tool "Timeline"

Hello everyone :)

Last week my dear friend Rumeysa and I made a presentation about an educational tool in the our Technology and Material Design lesson. It is a Timeline tool of readwritethink.org. All of us know that timeline is a graphical representation of related items or events in sequntial order and displayed along a line. For example, most of you created a timeline to history class about the historical events or seasonal strip to English class in school years, now imagine how easy and fun it would be to do with technology without strive to draw it. Yess it is possible with Timeline tool. Lets see how you can create your timeline simply !

                                                                               

  

This is the home page, as you can see the tool can be organized by time, date, or event.

After you select your topic you are ready to start. The tool allows users to create a label with short or long texts. Adding an image for each label makes a timeline more visually appealing. You can edit your photo. You can create more and more labels as you wish. But be careful to chose the best one that fits your purpose.

This is the final situation of our timeline that we prepared for presentation. Creating a timeline with technology is so easy that preparing it took about ten minutes and it was really entertaining experience for us.










Teachers may find the timeline as a useful strategy for a variety of educational purposes. It can provide comprehension support for language learners helping them make connections and recognize patterns in a series or process. Because learning numerical markers such as hours, years, days, months, seasons or grammatical structures like tenses can be complicated for young learners at first, timeline can appear visually less complex than pure text, helping learners more easily relate events to their corresponding times. For example: Students can create simple timelines in which they describe a day in their life, or they can describe what happened in a story they just heard or read. Or, we know that there are a lot of students who admire famous people. As a teacher you can give creating a timeline homework about a life of their favourite singer, actor or so on. I think, it is amusing homework for students since it will take less time and they will do it with using technology.

One benefit to creating a digital timeline (as opposed to the old fashioned way with pen and paper) is it’s easy to edit your timeline and make adjustments when necessary. You’re also able to share your timeline virtually via email or social media. You can even embed your timeline on your class website or blog, and maybe even have a special timeline outlining class events for the year that you can update over time with links, photos, and video clips of classroom activities.

We can produce a lot of ideas like these. As a teacher we should strieve to make lessons more entertaining and interesting for students. And it is not difficult with using technology like timeline. I hope this post will be useful for you :)