What it is: Time Tube is an awesome website for our You Tube addicted students. It is essentially a cross between a time line and You Tube. Students can type in a historical (or any) event and Time Tube will create a time line of related videos (the time line is based on when the video was added not on historical relevance). You have to see it to truly appreciate the cool factor of this tool. Your technology native students will “get” this site right away.
How to integrate Time Tube into the classroom: Use Time Tube in your classroom to introduce students to time lines, history subjects, current events, etc. Your students will appreciate the break from the traditional textbook time lines and learn more in the process. Before using Time Tube with your classroom, preview the topic to verify its school appropriateness (actually you should always do that!) This would also be a good place to teach students to question the reliability of the resources they are using and to check their “facts”.
Tips: Time Tube is related to a site called Dipity which I will be reviewing tomorrow…very neat!
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Time Tube in your classroom.
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I really enjoy your website. I love technology too and love incorporating it in my class. My questions is two fold how did you get started with educational technology. I would love to do this in my district as well. What advanced degree did you obtain. Did you create your own position or did your district offer it??
Okay now questions about dipity…do you have any ideas on how this can be used in a middle school science class.
I thought about creating a timeline of space discovery. Have you come across any other uses..Thank you