Looking for a way to add a little research to your student's school diet? xtimeline.com is a great way. I asked my digital media students to create a timeline with 10 event dates. They could choose from the following types of timelines: biography, organization, science/tech. , history, or arts and entertainment. They needed to use research tools such as Nettrekker, World Book Online etc. to find their information. All students used their school email accounts to create an account with xtimeline, they emailed their topic to me and they used a tag: dmanwatin so I could easily search xtimeline's database and find all of my student's work.
This project encouraged students to summarize and paraphrase the information they found on their topic. Each event required a date (month, day and year), a tag and at least two or three sentences written by the student that would explain what happened on that date and an image that relates to the information.
The final timeline can be played just like a slideshow in ZoHo. My student's enjoyed the project.
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Hi MM I can't wait to try this with my middle school students next year. We will have all new curriculum thx to you & sharing your ideas! Thx. As ever, Media Queen
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