Better than a Term Paper: Using Timelines for Course Projects

xTimeline (http://xtimeline.com/)

• Robust: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Starbucks-History
• MultiModal: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/test-timeline-for-eng101
• images
• audio
• video
• embed code

Assignment Prompts & Rubrics

• Sample Prompt
• Sample Rubric
  
• RubiStar

FERPA and other legal issues

• Copyright
• FERPA
  

Timeline Tools

• xTimeline (http://xtimeline.com/)
  
• Capzles (http://capzles.com/)

• less emphasis on dates: http://www.capzles.com/33f7748d-d035-4f75-83b0-39ef55262146
  

• All of Me (http://www.allofme.com/)
• Smile Widgets Timeline (http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/)
• TimeGlider (http://timeglider.com/)
  
• Dandelife (http://dandelife.com)
• OurStory (http://www.ourstory.com)
• TimeRime (http://www.timerime.com/)
• Dipity (http://www.dipity.com/)
• Timetoast (http://www.timetoast.com/)

xTimeline Help Resources

• Start an xTimeline
• quick video

How might you use Timelines in Scholarship?

• display your data/argument in a chronological manner
  

How might you use Timelines in Teaching?

• have students create an educational portfolio
• have students make reflective projects (autobiographies, etc.)
• have students create a time line of their technological, literacy, or pedagogical evolution
• Alternative to PP presentations (w/built in formative assessment activities)
• Course schedule portions of syllabi
• Presentation of content

How might your students use Timelines in their lives?

• document a vacation or other event
• biographical time line of a pregnancy or early years of a child

Be Good, use images with Creative Commons permissions:

• Adv. Search in Flickr
• Adv. Search in Google Images

Sample Syllabus Language (need "signed" response)
We will be using a web-based timeline application (xTimelines) for academic use in ENG101, First Year Composition, section #####, Fall 2009. By default, the timeline is open to the public for the purpose of sharing your work with the larger Internet community; specifically, using the timeline application will:

• provide an opportunity to present information in a variety of modalities,
• allow students to conceptualize their projects in a chronological manner,
• provide an opportunity to collaborate on large scale projects, and
• engage a larger audience who may provide feedback on the project.
  

To use the timeline application responsibly please observe all laws, MCC, and MCCCD policy that are incorporated into the Codes of Conduct and Academic Integrity. Some specific aspects of law and policy that might be well to remember are prohibitions against copyright infringement, plagiarism, harassment or interferences with the underlying technical code of the software. Some resources to remind yourself about MCC and MCCCD policies as well as laws about copyright and fairuse:

• MCC College Catalog and Student Handbook
• MCCCD Copyright Guidelines

As a student using the timeline application certain rights accrue to you. Any original work that you make tangible belongs to you as a matter of copyright law. You also have a right to the privacy of your educational records as a matter of federal law and may choose to set your timeline privacy settings to private and only share with the instructor and your classmates. Your construction of a timeline constitutes an educational record. By constructing a timeline, and not taking other options available to you in this course equivalent to this assignment that would not be posted publicly on the Internet, you consent to the collaborative use of this material as well as to the disclosure of it in this course and potentially for the use of future courses.