A brief overview of the features and benefits of the "Our Story" application.

1. Our Story
by: Josh Nissen
www.ourstory.com

2. Table of Contents
• “Our Story” Defined
• Features
– Home, Sets, and Explore
• Classroom Benefits
• Links

3. “Our Story” Defined
• “Our Story” is a web-based application that
allows you to “save stories, photos, and
videos on a collaborative timeline.”
• Allows user to:
– Make a timeline about anything
– Collaborate with friends and family
– Share it with anyone
– Add it to MySpace or your Blog
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4. Features
• Website has a 3-tab layout for easier use.
– Home
– Question Sets
– Explore
• Also has a site search feature as well as
log in / join link.
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5. Home
• Gives an example timeline.
• Explains how the application works.
• Offers different featured timelines.
• Presents you with the opportunity to create
your own timeline for free.
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6. Question Sets
• Offers 9 different sets of questions to help
you get started on your timeline.
– Story sets include, “My Story,” “Family Story,”
“Our Story,” and more.
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7. Explore
• Gives a few different blog type postings
from others timelines, presumably to aid in
adding information to your timeline.
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8. Classroom Benefits
• Timelines can be powerful educational
tools.
– Useful to help students understand the
sequence of events as well as cause and
effect situations.
– Provides an avenue for the student to get
excited about researching a historical event or
person.
– Allows for student to research their own family
and where they have come from.
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– This site wonderfully accommodates group Story

9. Links
• www.ourstory.com
– Homepage for the application
• http://www.slideshare.net/digitalmaverick/a
-guide-to-using-ourstory
– More helpful information about the application
• http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/
2008/01/its_time_for_a_more_open_timel
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– Offers additional classroom insight
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