Presenting A Chronology in An Effective and Interesting Ways Using Timeline

 Presenting A Chronology in An Effective and Interesting Ways

         In Education, we know as well that there is always a historical in many aspects. It started from a historical story, a biography of a person, a daily activity, and many others. Have you ever asked to make a historical story? or maybe present in front of the class to tell our daily activity using simple past tense?

            Yes.. There are many students get those kind of assignments, So how do you finish those assignments? by write it in a long written? if you do it, just left that way because in this modern era, there are so many tools that help you to make a timeline easily!, But what does timeline look like? Below is the picture of a timeline.

        Why do we have to use timeline to help us present many information?

1. It will supports people in reading comprehension, because timeline give a visualization to present the information, So people will understand the contain easier.
2. It will help to organize information in a chronological sequence so that they can better understand growth, change, recurring events, cause and effect, and key events of historical, social, and scientific significance
3. It can be used to record events from a story or a history lesson in a sequential format. They can help students keep events in chronological order as they write summaries, for example make a biography of a person, make a historical story.
4. Etc

         How do we make a timeline easily ?

There are so many online tools to help us make a timeline easily, such as :

1. Tiki Toki

    This online tools provide many options to help you present your chronological story, such as pictures, videos, musics, and many others. You also can choose many theme that you want to your own timeline, give a background and etc. Just make it as creative as you can.

Here is the example of a timeline about The biography of B.J Habibie which was created by my group using TikiToki. 

The Biography of B.J habibie

2. Timeglider
3. Timetoast

  


References :

Hines, Ami. (2006). Using Timelines to Enhance Comprehension. Accessed from

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/using-timelines-enhance-comprehension