PRESENTING INFORMATION USING TIMELINE

1. DEFINITION OF TIMELINE

A timeline is the presentation of a chronological sequence of events along a drawn line that enables a viewer to understand temporal relationships quickly. The term is also sometimes extended to mean a chronology that is tabular, year-by-year paragraphs or purely conceptual. Increasingly, timelines are illustrated in infographics combining text and graphic images for a better presentation.

Timelines are useful to document any type of development, providing an easy-to-understand history and helping viewers to understand past and ongoing trends. The tools are also useful for management tasks. In project management, for example, a timeline illustrates milestones, deadlines and other significant dates and events over the lifecycle of the project, clearly tying goals to specific dates. Annotations to the timeline can document actual progress.

2. HOW TO USE TIMELINE TO SUPPORT TEACHING

It can help students keep events in chronological order as they write summaries. But most important of all, they can also provide comprehension support to English language learners (ELLs), helping them make connections and recognize patterns in a series of process. Because numerical markers such as hours, years, days or months are placed apart with plenty of space in between, timelines can appear visually less complex than pure text, helping ELLs more easily relate events to their corresponding times. Both educators and parents can use timelines to help students organize information in a chronological sequence so that they can better understand growth, change, recurring events, cause and effect, and key events of historical, social, and scientific significance (Moline, 1995).

Suggested Activities

Early Elementary Grades (K-2)

·                    Timelines can be introduced to help ELLs understand chronological events while they are gaining English vocabulary to expand their oral and written skills.

·                    Students can create simple timelines in which they describe a day in their life, or they can describe what happened in a story they just heard or read.

·                    Younger children might use visual images or drawings to represent events.

Elementary & Later Grades (3-12)

·                    Timelines can be used at these grade levels to ensure that students have an in-depth understanding of chronological events in social studies, science and language arts.

·                    At this level, timelines can represent more complex ideas. They should include complete sentences, with detailed information for each event.

3. THE KINDS OF TOOLS TO MAKE TIMELINE

1. http://www.tiki-toki.com/

2. http://www.timetoast.com/

3. http://timeglider.com/

4. http://www.dipity.com/

See a brief history of CALL in this  timeline:

https://www.tiki-toki/timeline/entry/1208655/project-CALL/

(I have been submitted this link on Assignment folder of Session 4 on March 12, 2019. You can check on Schoology. The link can be viewed using a laptop on that day when I submitted, but now I can open the link only using handphone Sir. I do not know what's the problem, Sir, Forgive me. I suggest you open the link via phone)

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