xtimeline - clever app for higher education?

xtimelinea ‘web 2.0’ apps for your teaching
Matthew Allen, ALTC Teaching FellowCurtin University of Technology

xtimeline
xtimeline enables users to create timelines of events, in a constrained but flexible format, with collaboration features, and public communication options

Key features...
Users create profiles for managing access and use of the site and its contents
Creation of knowledge objects (timelines) via input into data fields that develops a particular kind of thinking
Relationship of whole (timeline) and parts (events) is structured into the process
Collaboration via comments or co-editing

Ideas for using...
Tutorial groups work as groups on same timeline task, privately, then all are revealed and compared and contrasted
Practicum students use timeline as a “personal journey” tool as aid to reflective practice
“Empty” timeline established by teacher; students must discover what information goes against each date

xtimeline
Timelines are the creation of knowledge objects, in a granular fashion, which are then combined to speak both their own knowledge and contribute to the overall story told by a larger knowledge object
Timelines, especially presented electronically, are interactive; they show graphically the relations between events, events and time, and the overall meta-event .
Collaboration is not only permitted by the system but the kind of knowledge to be created promotes collaborative endeavour; distinction, also, between collaboration on production and commentary on reception.

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xtimeline - clever app for higher education?

by Matthew Allen on Apr 12, 2010

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