{"id":479,"date":"2021-11-02T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/?p=479"},"modified":"2022-03-06T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:32:57","slug":"interactive-timeline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/interactive-timeline-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Timeline Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><strong>Brief description <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students choose a country or an event not covered in the class (History). They will highlight themes that have to do with WWII. The purpose of the assignment is to do research on an aspect of history that interests them and present it to the class using an interactive timeline. The aim is to produce a timeline similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1I3sRmBxqKPTbytGdooZaMCt7F8VWrFFi7MyST7QQtDo&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;initial_zoom=2&amp;height=650)\">World War II Timeline<\/a> we we used in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#092c9f\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Instructions Prompt\/Document- Step by step instructions for the students<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1B9KeI0v1iSx7GUTv3MPDotH1XfpB2MM7\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Assignment Prompt<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><strong>Ways to assess student work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1O3ebS2q9h2fE9z5zGERiCXpnBjPCAs1r\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rubric<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><strong>Sample\/model explanation for students about how this activity develops their digital literacies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This activity develops your digital literacies by encouraging you to conduct online research about the topic you are presenting, ensure credibility of information and sources, and present it using the timeline tool in a visually engaging manner. This includes learning the technology tool itself, as well as the literacy of how to present information in a timeline (i.e. writing short blurbs, ensuring images are reflective of the content, ensuring images are not copyrighted, publishing it online and knowing that it will be publicly accessible, choosing and ordering the material in the timeline to reflect the best way to tell the historical story and how to combine multimedia to interestingly tell a story visually).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><strong>Faculty and Student support material<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/timeline.knightlab.com\/#help\" target=\"_blank\">Help<\/a> part of the Timeline JS tool is useful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#092c9f\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Average preparation time for faculty<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty to prepare assignment prompt and rubric based on templates, as well as integrate it in the course design and assessments (30 minutes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#092c9f\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Average preparation time it takes students to complete this activity <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between researching, working on the tool itself to present the material approximately 3-4 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><strong>Necessary tools\/technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#092c9f\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.knightlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timeline JS<\/a> (or other interactive timeline tool)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The purpose of the assignment is to do research on an aspect of history that interests them and present it to the class using an interactive timeline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12,19,20,21,22],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[54],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessment","category-digital-making-know-how","category-presentation","category-research","category-critical-thinking","category-creative-thinking"],"authors":[{"term_id":54,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"gretchen-mccollough","display_name":"Gretchen McCollough, Senior Instructor, Rhetoric and Composition, The American University in Cairo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/digitaltoolkit\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}