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Does tool require Sign-in?: Yes
==Description of Tool: This tool provides students the opportunity to create timelines for historical eras. The unique element of this tool is that it allows students to embed different types of media (Pictures, videos, etc.) within their timelines. They can then publish them to them a wiki or the web==

How does tool apply to your curricular area? (if your group contains more than one curricular area, give an example in each area):
Our curriculum area is social studies. One of the most traditional methods for organizing concepts in this area is timelines. Everyone who has taken a history course has created a timeline at one point or another.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
This tool, X Timeline, fits into several levels of the Digital Blooms pyramid. First, at its' most basic level it fits into remembering because timelines help students to memorize the sequence of historical events. Second, this tool allows students to increase their understanding of the cause and effect of historical events by organizing them in the order that they occurred. Finally, our group will use the X Timeline's capability to embed media to have students create their own videos, which include role-playing and narrative elements, related to the events on their timelines.

=Part 2=

Adapted Lesson Plan
Using X Timeline to analyze and debate events within a historical era

Student Objectives: - Students will be able to create a timeline of important events within a historical era. - Students will be able to provide an argument that is in favor or opposes one of the events of the era. - Students will be able to identify and work with historical documents/primary sources.

Students will be organized into groups of 3.

Our example will be focused on the American revolution

Each Student Created timeline will include: - 10 events that their group of three has chosen as the most critical in the course of America's drive towards independence from Britain, and a description of each event. - Four or Five images and at least 2 documents that are related to the events listed on the timeline. - Students will choose a video that they find online that depicts or describes one of the key events (example: Boston Tea Party) during this important historical period. Then the students will present an argument as to whether they support or oppose the actions taken in the video they have chosen. - Each group's assignment will be posted to the class web page.

- At the end of class, once all groups have posted their assignment to the class webpage, the teacher will combine all groups' work into one comprehensive timeline. This timeline will include approximately 10 videos, 10 arguments in favor or opposing these events, and a large quantity of images and/or documents that are relevant to the era that is being studied. This comprehensive timeline will then serve as a study guide for this chapter.