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4

Creating Timelines

Filed Under History 

My new best friend on the Internet is a website called Xtimeline.

As the name suggests, you use the site to make timelines. The timeline comes out looking fairly decent, but what I like is you can add descriptions of al the events on your timeline. This means that besides being a great way to help your students put order to all the disparate events in your history course, it’s also a great tool. You can give  neat, tidy summaries of everything you’d want your students to know in the box. All they have to do is click on the item on the timeline that they want the information on.

As well, you can add pictures to accompany the descriptions. So if you had Confederation as one of your events, you can insert a picture of the Fathers of Confederation.

I’ve begun work on a timeline on Canadian history. So far it’s not much to brag about (I’ve only got four dates so far) but it’s a beginning to what I’ll develop over the semester.

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