This assignment asks you to create a timeline of a unified topic. As with the Day-in-the-life or Digital Map assignments, you have a lot of choice in what you pick! The topic can be anything discussed through the entire course but it has to tell a unified story in time with cause and effect. In other words, TIME has matter. There has to be a reason why things happened when they did. Here are a few examples of topics done by previous students (with the class in parentheses):
The sort of topics you don’t really see there are stories where a lot of things happen independently. You need cause and effect. For example, something that would NOT work is a list of rulers in Europe. You could make a timeline with several rulers, giving information about each. But unless there was cause and effect (one ruler caused another one to take power), this would NOT be a good topic. Make sure your story has an “X caused Y which caused Z” narrative.
No matter what tool we use, your TIMELINE should contain: • YOUR NAME included in the title to show that it is your creation. • At least 2 headers (the event/short term consequences, then the long term consequences). You may wish to sub-divide your story more, which is fine. • 10 separate items not counting the headers (more is OK but not required). Since each step requires 2 items, that’s really 5 steps in your timeline. • EACH step in the event you are explaining must have these things: o A text item with the DATE and a short description (2-3 sentences) for each step in the event, explaining what it is, how it was caused by previous events (unless it’s the first one), and its significance to your timeline story. o A multi-media item with embedded picture, video, or map **OR** link to a primary source of or relevant to the location. It’s a very good idea to make sure your images are open source. See the “How to Use Sutori” instructions for how to search for reusable images.
Citing: • There is an area at the end of the timeline for your sources. You will need a citation to the reference page where you learned about each of the 5 text items in your sources at the end of the presentation. Your reference sites should be reliable and scholarly. Your textbook does not count as a source – you need to dig deeper! • If you use a picture, a link to its original site should also be provided in the references section. But since YouTube videos contain the option to watch them on Youtube, you don’t need to provide a link/citation for a video.
Your POST should contain: • A share link or embedded code to your timeline (make sure you test this link!). • A ¾-1 page (double spaced) description/analysis of the story your timeline is telling – i.e. what should we learn by looking through all the locations, and why it’s temporal (why things happened WHEN they did). • No replies are necessary but they earn Classcraft XP (20 each)
Length: Timeline posts should be about ¾ to 1 page long in Word. The real emphasis is on the timeline you create. Remember to always type into Word so that that you don’t lose your work if Blackboard crashes. Upload ALL post Word documents to SafeAssign all at the same time at the end of the Unit.
Timeline Post Checklist You created a digital timeline using one of the provided tools that has a unified, temporal topic and it contains at least five (5) steps with 2 items – one text and one multimedia — each for ten (10) total things on the timeline not counting the headers. The timeline contains your real name or chosen pseudonym. 5 pts Each of the 5 steps has a text item with 2-3 sentence description with no typos AND a multimedia item (a picture, video, map, or link to a reliable primary source. Your bibliography contains references for the sites where you learned about the events and credits for any uploaded pictures. 12 pts. Your post includes a ¾ to 1 page analysis of your timeline (what you hope we will learn from exploring it and what makes it “spatial”) as well as the link to it: 8 pts Replies are optional but are worth 20 Classcraft XP each.
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