This is another one of those blog posts that must begin with, "I haven't posted in a long time. I've been so busy." A combination of moving and starting a new job, coupled with a lack of internet access for a week prohibited my internet contributions.
One of courses that I will be teaching this year is History. It will be a split-level class, with the junior group starting at the sedentarization of humans some 12000 years ago. The senior group will pick-up which they should have left off last year, at the Renaissance.
As with every course I teach, my objective will be to have students complete their work online as much as possible. In each of the subjects, the students will be creating a blog to host their online portfolios.
The History students, I will make them create a timeline. They will use this timeline to input information throughout the school year.
On my Diigo site, I have four timeline sites bookmarked. As usual, I looked first at the most popular site, which is OurStory.
OurStory looks like it would be good for creating a personal biography (I’ll keep it in mind for my English class), but it does not seem to serve my purposes for History.
Next, I checked out TimeRime. TimeRime is popular; it seems to have many feature; but, after trying it out, I felt that is was a bit too complex for middle school students.
So, I settled on TimeGlider. TimeGlider offers a nice balance of simplicity and functionality. Users can insert photos into events, and embed their timeline. Also, TimeGlider allows you to insert photos from the web; whereas, TimeRime requires users to upload photos and store them in different folders.
