Cat photo

Readers theater rehearsal recording

Reading aloud my personal narrative piece

Fantasy Publishing - iBooks Author PDF embedded using Flipsnack

Return to Frogwarts - My Fantasy Story

I have just completed my fantasy writing. If you would like to look at my story, click on the picture below.

Options for Making timelines on an iPad and on your laptop

Below are 4 different options for making timelines with your class. I have also included some pros and cons for each. The 4 options are:

• Animated timeline from timeline.knightlab.com
• Using Popplet on the iPad
• Using Google Slides to make a basic animated timeline
• Using StoryboardThat.com to create scenes of each stage

Animated Timeline - www.timline.knightlab.com (Laptop)

Click here for the website

Click here for the timeline sample file

Pros

• Easy to embed in blogs
• Years are to scale

Cons

• Adding in photos requires using a link to the image.
• Editing then publishing the spreadsheet

Using Popplet on the iPad

Pros

• Quick and easy to make
• Easy to add pictures
• Students can do this independently

Cons

• Can be hard to read on the blog unless you click on the image.
• Can get hard to read if there many cells in the Popplet

Click on the picture to see a full size version of the timeline.

Google Slides Animated Timeline (Laptop or iPad)

Using Google Slides with a slide right transition you can make a very basic animated timeline.
Click here for the template file you can share with your students.

Pros

• The students can do this independently
• Easy to embed in the blog
• Updates as changes are made
• Can be edited and created on either the iPad or you Laptop

Cons

• You cannot see the whole timeline on one page

StoryboardThat.com

Pros

• Looks good and the students create their own individual pieces.
• You can customise the all the character positions, colors etc.
• You can create a free account using Google Sign In.

Cons

• Can take a long time for some students to create each scene.
• Embeds very wide in the blog, you need to add a width="600" command to the HTML embed code.
• Storyboardthat.com has a habit of sending lots of update emails about their product after you sign up.

Other Notes

You could create a class timeline and break up the years so that each student only has to make one or two frames. Put it together in Google Slides at the end.