5. Ideas for use

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