Digital Scholars Lab Visualizing Time Timelines as Digital
Digital Scholars Lab Visualizing Time: Timelines as Digital Storytelling Daisy Benson, Information & Instruction Services, Bailey/Howe Library Hope Greenberg, Center for Teaching and Learning
What is a timeline? ▶Go to http: //researchguides. uvm. edu/timelineworkshop ▶As you look at an example, consider these questions: ▶ What draws you into the timeline? or not? ▶ How do you navigate through the timeline? ▶ Date structure: how exact are the dates (year, month, day, time)? ▶ Number of images: are there multiple images for each time spot? ▶ Are their thumbnails for images in the time markers? ▶ How is crowding/overlapping handled? Can you zoom in and out? Bonus questions that require a visit to the app’s site: ▶ Where is the information stored? ▶ Can you extract it for back-up or later use in another app? Digital Scholars Lab
Example: Biography ▶Nelson Mandela (Timeline. JS) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: News Event ▶French Presidential Election (Timeline. JS) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: Design Portfolio ▶Johnny B. Goode (Timeline. JS) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: UVM History TAP Class Project ▶Woman’s Suffrage Movement in Vermont (Timeline. JS) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: History ▶World War II. A High School history project (Time. Glider). Digital Scholars Lab
Example: Zoo Babies ▶ 3 D movie of the baby animals at Woodland Park Zoo. (Bee. Docs) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: History with Georeferencing ▶Battle of Chancellorsville: Neatline timeline and Neatline georeferencing (many more demos) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: A Non-Timeline ▶Net Neutrality and many more examples (Sutori) Digital Scholars Lab
Example: History with Georeferencing (2) ▶ Middle Ages (My. Histro) Digital Scholars Lab
The Timeline Apps We’ve Seen Today ▶ Timeline. JS - uses your own Google spreadsheet. ▶ Time. Glider - expands and contracts; images on timeline ▶ Bee. Docs Timeline - 3 D movies ▶ Neatline - used in conjunction with Omeka ▶ Sutori - a timeline-like storytelling app ▶ My. Histro - timeline with georeferencing and social media Digital Scholars Lab
Let’s try it ▶ We will build a spreadsheet-based Timeline. JS timeline. ▶ Go to: http: //tinyurl. com/jg 8 rk 9 k ▶ Note the type of information you will need to collect: ▶ ▶ ▶ Date Headline (title) Text (description) URL Media link, Media credit, ▶ Media caption ▶Add rows as needed but do not delete the top (header) row. Digital Scholars Lab
Your reactions? Digital Scholars Lab
How will you use timelines? ▶Formative - to help students organize and understand time relationships ▶Summative - Final projects to demonstrate their understanding and share with others Digital Scholars Lab
Questions? Daisy. Benson@uvm. edu Hope. Greenberg@uvm. edu Digital Scholars Lab
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