Timeline: The Life of Owen
I was frustrated with my attempts this afternoon to make VoiceThread do something that didn’t take advantage of its best features (allowing multiple perspectives on the same event/story, whether participants or commentators).
Tonight, in about 20 minutes, Owen and I used xtimeline to trace some events in his life. There is no help information or instructions for the program, but it is fairly intuitive to use. We could embed video and map files easily, but couldn’t get the photo upload to work for some reason. (It would prompt us to browse for a photo, but they never showed up.) I can see how this would be useful to get students to build interactive timelines.
Hmm, we’ll take a look and see if we can figure out why the photos had trouble. It does look like an interesting tool.
I like how you rolled in the Google Maps as images for your story- double tool bonus!
thanks for using xtimeline! we’ll take a look at the photo issue, and get that resolved soon.
Lauren
Co-Founder, xtimeline
Thanks Lauren! We really enjoyed using xtimeline, and hope to use if for a class project this fall. Katie