Formative – to help students organize and understand time relationships
- gathering materials and resources (and making proper citations)
- use timelines for project management (Engineering example)
- literary analysis: chart and annotate a fictional work
- film analysis: analyze a film by capturing clips or stills, then writing about them
- training materials for any sequential process (the result will be accessible online and standardized across participants)
- building your portfolio (inside or outside a class – esp. as video)
- keep a summary of class work or what was learned each week. Connect topics to resources and create an overarching view of of the course.
Summative – Final projects to demonstrate understanding and share with others
- historically grounded projects, of course!
- any project that involves sequential events (timeline don’t always need specific real times – the timestamps can simply act as markers to organize the content)
- CDAE: strategic plan
- Presenting information to outside funders, judges
- Summarizing/CV, activities
More ideas and helps at:
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/digital-timelines/
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/rubric-timeline2.pdf