Idea Stack for history

[Marty Billingsley]

> Lisa Westbrook <lisa at onebranch.org> writes:
>
> I would love to see (or create if I ever get the competency)  a
> Runtime stack that covers the history of a particular author (or time
> period with several authors), with historical events filled in.
>
> 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)

If you don't want to reinvent the wheel (nothing wrong with it,
especially using RR:-), check out TimeLiner by Tom Snyder Productions.
Some of our lower and middle school teachers have been using it
very successfully with their students.  It's easy to include
graphics, sounds, movies, and to present a timeline in a number of
formats.

Of course, a timeline made with RunRev would be much more
flexible, as you could incorporate quizzes and such.  TimeLiner
currently lets you add web links to events, but not links to
other software (such as a quiz created with RunRev).

cheers,
 - marty


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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools