Having college students create timelines has been a normal within the playbooks of historical past academics because the starting of historical past. Writing a timeline is an effective method for college students to chronologically summarize sequences of occasions and see how the occasions are linked. After I was a scholar and once I began instructing timelines have been made on giant items of paper. For somebody with handwriting like mine and a eager curiosity in historical past, there was by no means sufficient room on even the biggest paper to make the timeline look good. Right now’s college students could make timelines on-line and never have to fret about working out of area nor are they restricted to simply having textual content on their timelines.
These are my go-to suggestions for creating multimedia timelines. This record has been up to date for the second time this yr as a result of a few of my previous “go-to” instruments relied on Flash and are now not accessible and a few instruments have been up to date.
Timeline JS
Timeline JS is a good device in case your college is utilizing G Suite for Training. Timeline JS creates a timeline based mostly on entries made in a Google Spreadsheets template present by Timeline JS. Your entries can embrace movies, photographs, textual content, and audio recordings. Check out this tutorial to discover ways to use Timeline JS.
Flippity Timeline Template
If Timeline JS appears a bit too difficult to your college students, Flippity.web affords one other solution to create a multimedia timeline by means of a Google Spreadsheet. Merely fill within the blanks in Flippity’s timeline template to create a multimedia timeline. In the next video I exhibit the way it works.
Google Slides & PowerPoint
Google Slides and PowerPoint each provide templates for making timelines. Utilizing these templates you may create a timeline that features textual content, hyperlinks, photographs, and video. Considered one of my most-watched movies is this one about making timelines in Google Slides. You may also make animated timelines with Google Slides by following the instructions in this tutorial.
Sutori
Sutori is an entire multimedia timeline creation service. College students can construct timelines that embrace photos, movies, and textual content. As a profit for academics, not solely are you able to embrace media like photos and movies, you may also embrace quiz questions in your timeline. So in the event you needed to have college students view a number of occasions on a timeline after which reply a number of comprehension questions, you may construct these questions proper into the timeline.
Padlet
Padlet is a device that I’ve used for greater than a decade to create every kind of multimedia collages and galleries with college students. Within the final couple of years Padlet has added a variety of new templates for academics and college students. A kind of templates is a timeline template. You should use this template so as to add occasions in any date format of your selecting. Padlet helps inclusion of video, audio, picture, hyperlinks, and textual content.
Canva
Canva is a kind of net instruments that the extra time you spend with it the extra options you uncover “hidden” in it. A kind of hidden options is the flexibility to create timelines to save lots of as photographs and PDFs. Canva has a couple of dozen timeline templates which you could modify by altering the textual content measurement and elegance, inserting photographs, and dragging-and-dropping different design parts. Watch the next quick video to discover ways to create a timeline in Canva.
ClassTools
Russel Tarr, a historical past instructor and developer of ClassTools.web, just lately launched a brand new template known as the Wikipedia Timeline Generator. This free device will take a Wikipedia article and generate a timeline based mostly on that article. That is not all it does. You may edit the entries on the timeline to right dates, to edit the knowledge related to the dates, delete entries on the timeline, and add new dates to the timeline. Timelines created with the Wikipedia Timeline Generator could be embedded into net pages and or shared with the distinctive URL assigned to your timeline.
In this quick video I exhibit the way to use the Wikipedia Timeline Generator hosted by ClassTools.
RWT Timeline