education-revolution Digest, Vol 5, Issue 14

[Lisa Westbrook]

Ok.  I'll send an email and try to share the sample stack in the next  
few days.  In the middle of something until Mon. or Tues.

Thanks.

Lisa

On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Mark Greenberg wrote:

Lisa,
     This is a perfect idea to execute in Rev!  It doesn't sound too  
difficult to code either (though scrollbars can be tricky).  Please  
let me know, on or off list, if you need help with this.

         Mark

On Saturday, July 30, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Lisa wrote:


> I made a little timeline in Runtime (with the help of my husband) but
> I'm sure how to post it yet for others to see, and its not finished.
> I've been trying to work on a paper version of a timeline project for
> elementary kids (that they could do with their parents and hang on
> the refrigerator), but then started thinking it would be great to do
> that in Runtime.
>
> I saw the horizontal scroll bar at www.riverventure.org (http://
> www.riverventure.org/columbia/index.html)  and thought this would be
> a great way to do an indepth study of a time period.  I put the
> beginning date at one end of the scroll (in this case it was the
> 1800s, so it was 1800 at one end and 1899 at the other end of the
> scroll bar)
>
> Then I have a popup card for each year as I scroll from left to
> right.  On some I filled in events. Like 1804 was Louis Braille and
> 1857 was Almanzo Wilder and 1880 was Helen Keller).  I have other
> events to fill in but then thought, maybe kids could do this? Then I
> could add appropriate graphics that relate to the event that can come
> up on the stack or on another stack that goes with it.
>
> Now, I'm thinking this might be a good way to do tests for kids and
> teach them a little Runtime at the same time.  So if I have a stack
> that represents the 1800s (or it could be whatever period of time)
> then I could ask the kids to fill in the data on the cards, after
> they read historical fiction or nonfiction about the events. I could
> fill in a few as anchor spots on the timeline and they could go to
> town as they read and find out about others within that time.  Then
> each student would have different stuff and could share with each
> other.  I was thinking the sources for the data could be historical
> fiction and nonfiction, source documents from history, and even
> information from students oral history interviews of their own family
> history.
>
> Could some of the veteran users on this list let me know if this
> thinking is logical?  It seems like I could copy the stack 15 times
> if I had 15 kids in my class, and give each one their own stack to
> fill in.  Should I proceed or does this sound crazy?  Seems like if
> it would work, we could reduce paper usage in the classroom.
>

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