Tutorial Week 9 - 23/9

Exploring Web 2.0 Tools for business lessons:

Timeline:

The ideal timeline web2 tool will be an interactive, simple and effective timeline generator that is free, easy and accessible online. 

·         ‘ReadWriteThink’, basic timeline generator. Printable and very easy to use:
- http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline/

·         ‘Timetoast’ – Requires sign up (potential problem).  (http://www.timetoast.com)
- Easy to use
- Timespan available
- Great  tool!

Of all the timeline tools availble on the web which I have seen, Timetoast appears to be the most suitable for the lessons we are planning. It allows students to set a timeframe (how long the whole campaign will run), and add each event within that time frame, including title, date, image and description. The timeline can be viewed as a whole, as is shown in the first image above, and then each event individually in greater detail (image 2).

These timelines aren't publicly available, which is ideal for student privacy and any issues that may have been raised with that. 

The issue that potentially arises with this web tool, is the need to create an account and validate email before use. A possible way around this problem, is to give the students my login, as each account can have multiple timelines created within it. This also creates the opportunity for all timelines to be in the one place for monitoring and marking purposes. 

Glogster provides students with a creative medium to document their ideas and progress throughout the assessment process. They will be given a list of things that MUST be blogged (glogged) as it is done, and the option to include extras if they wish.