Timetoast

[|Timetoast]
 * Create timelines and share them on the web.**
 * Resources for information:**

[|Teachers Network: How To: Creating Timelines **Using** **Timetoast**]

 * Strengths:**
 * free
 * intuitive and easy to use
 * can upload photos
 * can show time spans for events of over a day
 * works in draft mode so you decide if and when to publish
 * publishing options available
 * remains always available to edit
 * bilingual: English or Spanish


 * Weaknesses:**
 * requires email address and confirmation or Facebook log-in information to sign up; both often blocked in schools
 * time spans have an odd appearance on the timeline
 * cannot include photos with time spans, only text
 * no embedding of online videos or animations
 * AD era timelines only; no BC possible


 * Opportunities:**
 * post to your website, Facebook, and/or Twitter
 * RSS feed available so you can track timeline changes
 * timelines can be printed, shared online, and/or stored or published on Timetoast
 * timelines are standards-based beginning in primary grades


 * Threats:**
 * just a warning: timelines students create of their lives could include too much private information to be published to public


 * Ideas for the classroom:**
 * Social Studies/History/Biographies all lend themselves naturally to timelines
 * Have students create a timeline of major events in their lives. Use in the classroom to get to know each other and build community. Use also as ideas for writing.
 * Use backwards as an alternative assessment option where teacher creates the tags and students have to put them in chronological order
 * Use with any topics to show evolution over time (ie. musical instruments)
 * Use with any topics to show progressions over time (ie. science inquiry)

[|Timeline Categories] View numerous examples of timelines published to the Timetoast site
 * Examples of use:**