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INTRODUCTION
Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker is a web-based digital tool to create and collaborate on multimedia timelines. Teachers can create timelines to use in direct instruction or assign students the task of creating a timeline or adding to a group timeline. When students are creating a timeline or adding entries to a group timeline, Tiki-Toki engages students, enhances learning, and can extend learning beyond the classroom and school day, as defined by the Triple E Framework. When students use Tiki-Toki, they get pulled into the rich multimedia experience possible with Tiki-Toki, engage in socially active learning when adding stories (i.e., events), use higher-order thinking when curating which stories to add and which media to use for each story, and the online nature of Tiki-Toki enables learning outside the classroom and the school day with those outside the class.
Pros:
Free account has access to all features.
Supports timeline entries with embedded images, audio, and video
Group editing is available to free accounts and allows students to add entries to a timeline and edit only their entries, but students cannot edit or delete other entries.
Timelines are searchable
Cons:
Media hosted on Google, Flickr, and Facebook must be downloaded and saved elsewhere online to be used in a timeline. Or they need to be uploaded into Tiki-Toki which requires a paid account.
Free account only allows you to create one timeline.
Cost. Two levels of paid account at $9.95/month (Bronze) or $25/month (Silver), but there is a discounted Teacher subscription.**
**Tiki-Toki offers the Silver account at a 50% discount for teachers ($150/year) that also includes 50 student accounts. The ability to make multiple timelines and easily access student accounts may make this a worthwhile expense for some.
ENGAGE
MCH Engagement.mp4Tiki-Toki Timelines will engage students. The fun that students can have putting together a timeline with Tiki-Toki Timelines will motivate students and get them to spend more time-on-task. The ability to group edit one timeline or have students work together in creating entries on the timeline will help students shift to an active social user as they determine what is worth adding to the timeline and curate what should go into the timeline for each entry. And game mode allows a little fun while still forcing students to make connections between the entries on the timeline.
ENHANCE
Tiki-Toki Timelines enhances the learning experience by triggering higher-order thinking as students identify what should be included in the timeline, curate the media to include for each entry, and see the connections between entries, both sequencing and overlaps. The different ways that the timeline can be visualized may make the information more accessible for some students, as well as help them make connections. Otherwise, the teacher will need to provide scaffolding as needed in using Tiki-Toki.
MCH Enhance.mp4EXTEND
Here is one possible activity that would fall take advantage of Tiki-Toki within the Triple E Framework:
Make a Master Timeline
All students collaborate on creating a timeline to represent all the major events covered in a social studies class.
Students add new entries to the timeline with every unit.
At key points in the year, students review the timeline and reflect on any new connections they see.
Prompt students with questions that make specific connections between events covered in different units.
This would be particularly effective in a world history class. For an example, visit the the timeline to the right, "Tower of London 3D."
Matthew C. Hammond, Sept. 15, 2024
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