Last week I learn a Book Widgets weblog publish about enjoyable methods to make use of timelines in your classes. Reading that publish impressed me to make a brand new video about making timelines with Adobe Express. It additionally prompted me to replace my checklist of excellent instruments for making multimedia timelines.
Timeline JS
Timeline JS remains to be my favourite software for making multimedia timelines. Timeline JS creates a timeline primarily based on entries made in a Google Spreadsheets template supplied by Timeline JS. Your entries can embody movies, photos, textual content, and audio recordings. Take a take a look at this tutorial to discover ways to use Timeline JS.
Flippity Timeline Template
If Timeline JS appears a bit too sophisticated in your college students, Flippity.web presents one other approach to create a multimedia timeline by way of a Google Spreadsheet. Simply fill within the blanks in Flippity’s timeline template to create a multimedia timeline. In the next video I display the way it works.
Google Slides & PowerPoint
Google Slides and PowerPoint each provide templates for making timelines. Using these templates you’ll be able to create a timeline that features textual content, hyperlinks, photos, and video. One of my most-watched movies is this one about making timelines in Google Slides. You may also make animated timelines with Google Slides by following the instructions in this tutorial.
Sutori
Sutori is an entire multimedia timeline creation service. Students can construct timelines that embody footage, movies, and textual content. As a profit for lecturers, not solely are you able to embody media like footage and movies, it’s also possible to embody quiz questions in your timeline. So in case you wished to have college students view a couple of occasions on a timeline after which reply a couple of comprehension questions, you’ll be able to construct these questions proper into the timeline.
Padlet
Padlet is a software that I’ve used for greater than a decade to create all types of multimedia collages and galleries with college students. In the final couple of years Padlet has added a whole lot of new templates for lecturers and college students. One of these templates is a timeline template. You can use 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 kind of internet instruments that the extra time you spend with it the extra options you uncover “hidden” in it. One of these hidden options is the flexibility to create timelines to avoid wasting as photos and PDFs. Canva has a few dozen timeline templates that you may modify by altering the textual content dimension and magnificence, inserting photos, and dragging-and-dropping different design components. Watch the next brief video to discover ways to create a timeline in Canva.
ClassTools
Russel Tarr, a historical past instructor and developer of ClassTools.net, lately launched a brand new template known as the Wikipedia Timeline Generator. This free software will take a Wikipedia article and generate a timeline primarily based on that article. That’s not all it does. You 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 might be embedded into internet pages and or shared with the distinctive URL assigned to your timeline.
In this brief video I display learn how to use the Wikipedia Timeline Generator hosted by ClassTools.
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