BLOGGING 204

After working with Web 2.0 and seeing all the interesting things that you can do on it and with it.  Here is another thing you can add. At school today, I received an email from out technology guru about Timelines 2.0.  Timelines 2.0 is a fun, free and easy tool that can be used in the classroom.  This tool can be used in any classroom for any content area and grade level.  This tool allows someone to be as creative as they want to be while sharing and communicating information to whoever is out there watching.  This tool also has the ability to link photos and videos to a timeline about history or scientific breakthroughs in culture.  You can also view how something or someone has changed over a period of time.  The possibilities are endless.  A student or a teacher can find timelines based on categories, tags or even groups.  They also have the ability to create a timeline by just entering basic information and then be able to add events as they pop up.  There is also a way to do this as a group project.  Students can have group discussions about the timeline with group individuals created by the teacher.  Teachers can have the ability to set groups up, even share goals and interests with other people about the group projects.  Students and teacher also have the capabilities to share the timelines with other people.  You simply create a badge to share it with online communities.  Finally there is even a section to discuss timelines, rate timelines and even invite people to check out your timeline.

As we begin our introduction into powerpoints, or a continuation of what we already know, I felt that this might be a great tool to possibly use in a Social Studies class.  It just gives the student another visual that they could see about seeing when certain events in our history took place.  Or in Science, being a forecaster for a week, being able to make a timeline of all the weather events that happened during a day or a week.  On in PE, you could check out improvements when it came to push ups or running time over a period of time. What a great classroom friendly idea that allows classroom discussions to continue and flourish, rather than become boring and monotonous.  Enjoy!!!