Create Your Own Timeline

Bu using http://www.xtimeline.com/ you can create your own timeline to be used for educational purposes. You could use this site to make your own timeline to help teach the key points that you want your class to get out of a history lesson. This could include events through history such as wars, inventions, or medical breakthroughs, or even the highlights in a life of a famous person.

Another way in which this online tool could be used is for students to make timelines of their own lives. This would help to build esteem in the classroom and allow the students to practice their writing and computer skills. When I was in elementary school we had to make timelines of our lives that were constructed with different pictures and captions. I remember that mine had to be all rolled up because it went all the way down my door. Making a timeline online would be a neater way to do this project and would also allow students to share their project with friends and relatives.

In my example you can see on the main view of the timeline will look. The site creates a bullet for each event and allows you to view a picture when you click on it. I would encourage students to use pictures of themselves for each bullet rather than pictures of objects, however that is all I had to work with for this example. You can follow this link to check out the rest of my timeline.

http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/All-About-Me-