Final week I learn a Guide Widgets weblog publish about enjoyable methods to make use of timelines in your classes. Studying that publish impressed me to make a brand new video about making timelines with Adobe Categorical. It additionally prompted me to replace my record of excellent instruments for making multimedia timelines.
Timeline JS
Timeline JS continues to be my favourite instrument for making multimedia timelines. Timeline JS creates a timeline primarily based on entries made in a Google Spreadsheets template offered by Timeline JS. Your entries can embrace movies, pictures, textual content, and audio recordings. Check out this tutorial to learn to use Timeline JS.
Flippity Timeline Template
If Timeline JS appears a bit too difficult in your college students, Flippity.web presents one other strategy to create a multimedia timeline via a Google Spreadsheet. Merely fill within the blanks in Flippity’s timeline template to create a multimedia timeline. In the next video I reveal 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, pictures, and video. One in all my most-watched movies is this one about making timelines in Google Slides. You too can make animated timelines with Google Slides by following the instructions in this tutorial.
Sutori
Sutori is a whole multimedia timeline creation service. College students can construct timelines that embrace footage, movies, and textual content. As a profit for lecturers, not solely are you able to embrace media like footage and movies, you can too embrace quiz questions in your timeline. So if you happen to needed to have college students view just a few occasions on a timeline after which reply just a few comprehension questions, you may construct these questions proper into the timeline.
Padlet
Padlet is a instrument that I’ve used for greater than a decade to create all types of multimedia collages and galleries with college students. Within the final couple of years Padlet has added quite a lot of new templates for lecturers and college students. A kind of templates is a timeline template. You should utilize 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 type of internet 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 pictures and PDFs. Canva has a couple of dozen timeline templates you can modify by altering the textual content measurement and elegance, inserting pictures, and dragging-and-dropping different design parts. Watch the next brief video to learn to create a timeline in Canva.
ClassTools
Russel Tarr, a historical past trainer and developer of ClassTools.web, not too long ago launched a brand new template referred to as the Wikipedia Timeline Generator. This free instrument will take a Wikipedia article and generate a timeline primarily based on that article. That is not all it does. You possibly can edit the entries on the timeline to appropriate 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 will be embedded into internet pages and or shared with the distinctive URL assigned to your timeline.
In this brief video I reveal the best way to use the Wikipedia Timeline Generator hosted by ClassTools.
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