HSTRY is an online tool that allows students and teachers to create interactive timelines. It is free for educators and students and can be accessed from any internet-connected device. Students can use HSTRY to create timelines, add multimedia elements, collaborate with classmates, and share their work. Teachers can create lessons with embedded quizzes and discussions. HSTRY meets technology standards by empowering student learning through digital creation and sharing.

1. HSTRY
An online interactive timeline tool
Presentation by: Jenna Jenkins

2. What is HSTRY?
● Online tool used to create
interactive timelines
● FREE accounts for teachers and
students
● EASY access from anywhere
with internet

3. How can students use HSTRY?
● CREATE timelines
● COMMENT, DISCUSS, and ASK
QUESTIONS directly on the timeline
● ADD audio, video, and pictures to
make it INTERACTIVE
● COLLABORATE with classmates
● SHARE timelines with students in
other schools

4. How can Teachers use HSTRY?
● CREATE INTERACTIVE TIMELINES
● INSERT quizzes and discussion questions throughout timelines
● ACCESS students’ timelines in an online classroom
● ACCESS timelines that others have created and shared
● PAID MEMBERSHIP OPTION to access timelines with LESSON PLANS

5. HSTRY Project Ideas for Students
● Create first- person accounts of events acting as historical figures
● Respond to current events
● Create timeline for end-of-unit project

6. In the Spotlight
“Have students create timelines of their school year as a digital portfolio. Students can
add essays they’ve written, videos they’ve made, podcasts they’ve recorded, or maps
they’ve created.” - Free Technology for Teachers
(http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/09/students-can-collaboratively-
create.html#.V_EujGXnu8U)
“Combining interactive timelines with images, videos, and engaging stories, HSTRY is
a digital platform for learning history in the twenty-first century and promotes
collaboration and engagement in the classroom.” - Best in History
(http://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/best-history-online-hstry)

7. HSTRY meets Technology Standards
● Empowers students to demonstrate learning goals
○ Work and learn in interconnected digital world
○ Use resources to create knowledge and learning experiences for themselves
and others
○ Communicate and express themselves using digital media and tools
○ Evaluate resources using digital tools to explore, construct, and demonstrate
new knowledge
National Education Standards for Students
(http://www.iste.org/standards/standards/for-students-2016)

8. References
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9. References Continued (Images)
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