Timeglider: A Web 2.0 Tool

Timeglider is an online tool that is very useful to both students and instructors alike. It allows research to be organized, as well as grading and presentation. It boasts easy-to-use technology that allows information to be presented in a timeline format. For education, business, or history, Timeglider makes your timelines efficient and friendly. The best part is, all of this comes for free with the basic version!

Timeglider began as the brainchild of Michael Richardson, back in 2002, and launched as a Flash-based app in 2003, so by internet standards, we're a real dinosaur. In 2010, seeing the demise of Flash on the horizon, Richardson rewrote Timeglider to be an HTML5 app, so it's written in HTML and JavaScript today. In addition to the "software-as-a-service" app, Timeglider's timeline component can be used separately as a JavaScript "widget" and integrated into other apps. Companies like Geico, Nike, NASA, FINRA, and a bunch of military branches have used the Timeglider widget in their own app contexts.

Timeglider is a very small operation, consisting of one main operator, and customer service sometimes lags according to Richardson's internet connection and trips away from his computer in Boise.

How to use timeglider:

Visit this URL; http://timeglider.com/ to start working on it.

Create a free student account.

Step One: Sign up or log in to TimeGlider.
Step Two: Fill out the information to become a TimeGlider member and use the software.
Step Three: Click on new timeline to create one and fill out the information for it.
Step Four: Design your timeline by adding events, creating other timelines, or importing other timelines.
Step Five: Create events by filling out the information, adding images, and adding links.
Step Six: This is where you can insert images to correspond with your events using several different methods.
Step Seven: Make the length of your event more than just one day or one time if you choose to.

How to use timeglider in Classroom:

Timeglider is perfect for showing your students examples of time events in History...
Use in education
Timeglider is ideal for demonstrating the chronological order of an event in time
Catering for diversity
Timeglider can aid a teacher in catering for different abilities in the classroom...

When you sign up for timeglider
as a student you can create
three free timelines.

The public cannot simply browse to a "published" timeline: Having a highly  unique URL, your timeline can be shared with only the people you want to. It will benefit all learners in your classroom. The visual aids, the verbal explanation and the physical mapping will help all students to gain insight into a topic. Timeglider can be used in conjunction with many strategies used in the classroom such as group work, presentations or simply teacher talk. It can be used for a range of subjects: History, Geography, English, French, Science, CSPE, Home-economics are just a few examples. It can also help in catering for diversity in your classroom. As part of their homework or project work students can create timelines at home. You can share your timeline with family or friends or even with fellow students for a collaborative project. You can alter a timeline in relation to the lesson's learning outcomes....

Students can chose how important they think an event is - the more important the event, the bigger it appears. They can also add images that will help them in remembering the content.