Time Graphics T3 Technology List

  This blog entry is about a tool of my own interest from the list of T3 Instructing Technologies provided by Dr. Wang. I chose to explore the website: Time Graphics. This tool can be used to achieve the Instructing aspect of Teaching (T3) by allowing teachers to create digital timelines as supplemental material to teach a lesson. For example, for my second mini-lesson we're currently doing in class, I'm using Time Graphics as a "social studies knowledge expression" activity, and having students create their own timelines about the thirteen colonies.

When you go to Time Graphics and click "Create" it brings you to this blank screen. You can hover your mouse over any area of the timeline to create an event/time period/percentage/statistic for that time, and you can also import data from Google analytics/calendar/ or spreadsheet. However for my situation, if the year you need is currently present on the timeline, you can press the "new event" orange button in the top left corner, choose what type of event (the options I stated before) and this screen pops up on the right:

From here you can change the name, add a description, adjust the date, and other design features. There's also an option to add images/video/maps to your event which I thought was a nice touch.

And then finally when you're all done creating your timeline, all these buttons on the left side of the screen are different formats that you can save your timeline as:

Here is an example of my completed timeline I'm using for my minilesson just for example!

Overall, I found this website to be very easy to use. You simply pick a date and add whatever type of event you want, and if you're not sure what a button means it tells you when you hover over it.

I also think this tool has a lot of versatility. There are so many options for the different things you can add to your timeline. Along with different design options, to truly make it your own.

And finally, I think the overall likelihood of using this tool in my classroom is high. I think this tool can be used both for instructing, and also having students make their own timelines to demonstrate their knowledge about a topic we just learned. I will have to remember to keep this tool in mind going into the future!