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Posted by admin | Posted in Blogs, History, Interactive Whiteboard, Language Arts, Middle/High School, Science, Secondary Elementary, Social Studies, Teacher Resources, Web2.0, Websites | Posted on 16-05-2008

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What it is: Dipity is a site that makes it simple for your students to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines. Dipity makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, students are creating timelines in “their language” of Digital Native. You have to check this one out…look at a sample timeline to see how truly superior these timelines are to the traditional paper/pencil timeline! Okay seriously, have you ever seen something so cool?!

How to integrate Dipity into the classroom: Dipity is the perfect tool for creating a timeline for any subject in your classroom. Students can bring history to life by embedding relevant You Tube video into their timelines. Create a timeline of your day by combining Dipity with your classroom tweets from Twitter. Timelines can be created by students individually or as a class and posted on a class website as a study resource. Dipity makes your classroom interactive and engaging for students. This is where real learning takes place! To introduce Dipity to your students, invite them to create a timeline of their day or their lives using Dipity (if they have a family Flickr account they can embed pictures right into their timeline).

Tips: Students can look at the content they add to Dipity in four different views: Timeline, List View, Flipboook, and Map View (this only works if the timeline has been tagged with locations.)

Please leave a comment and share how you are using Dipity in your classroom.

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50 Useful Blogging Tools for Teachers | Teaching Tips said on 21-07-2008

[...] iLearn Technology: Dipity. This educational blog reviews Dipity, a time line generator that students can use to create time lines on any topic. Students can use Dipity in conjunction with their blogs to create personal timelines. [...]
Mallory Burton said on 05-09-2008

Thanks for another great suggestion. This interface is not as glitzy as Capzles but probably easier for students to use, and they won’t waste time fiddling with themes. I had some trouble uploading large pictures but decreasing the size fixed the problem. I just ran across a great idea on Diigo…this woman is using Dipity to record wiki entries to keep them from getting buried in archives. http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/08/dipity-do-da–.html
It would be a great tool for quickly scanning through previous posts to blogs as well.
50 Useful Blogging Tools for Educators | Teachers Wallet said on 18-12-2008

[...] iLearn Technology: Dipity. This educational blog reviews Dipity, a time line generator that students can use to create time [...]
TechnoTapas Tuesday: Timelines and Dipity « Instructional Support at Wright said on 23-02-2010

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