Timelines and Learning
Thanks to the Digital Research Tools Wiki, I have discovered two on-line tools for creating timelines. While Simile requires facility with HTML, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University offers a more accessible Timeline Builder.
I usually encourage students to make timelines, in order to manage the periods and works of art, but they seldom do. An on-line program would make this task much more enticing. To promote active learning, the students should really do the work, but I think I will make my own next time as well!
June 17th, 2008 at 12.18
Thanks for the links! These look like great tools for use in the literature classroom as well, and also for helping me keep straight the chronological relationships of texts and events. I will certainly be experimenting with both.
June 17th, 2008 at 21.10
Yet another great teaching/research resource. I can see how this would work really well for keeping track of artists and specific works of art. For my personal research, I also think it would work really well for historical events, authors, and dates for the composition of literary works. Overall, for scholars working in the medieval realm, it would lend itself to a very interdisciplinary approach, incorporating historical matters, important major figures (in history, kings, philosophical figures), as well as figures and works of art (literary and visual), etc.
Thanks for sharing all of these great resources!