Timerime is a web 2.0 tool that allows students to build a timeline for their personal use. Texts, images, and links can all be placed in one location that will allow a student to see how everything relates to each other. Implementing text on a map can show a student where an event took place in relation to where they are, and also in relation to where they are studying. Images, either taken by the student on a camera or phone, or uploaded from Flickr or another photosharing site, can allow the student to visualize what certain events were like. Students can do further research and add links to a timeline. All of these abilities make for an excellent study aid or project for students in lieu of the traditional research paper. An excellent extension would be for a student to overlay two sets of information on one timeline, for example, Texas History and American History, or two different sets of legislation on a single timeline.
The student can make their own line, and either make it private for their own study, or invite others to add to the line. This would be a different way of looking at a family tree project in elementary school, or for an economics group project in high school.
Timerime is an excellent tool with few drawbacks. I do not like the fact that students would have to register, or the fact that it may be blocked by a school’s filter. On a scale of 1 to 5, for ease of use in a Deaf Ed room, I would give it a 4.
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E. I like Timerime. I will look into it further for my adult students too. Thanks
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