Thursday, July 24, 2008

Interactive Timeline on CircaVie

In this assignment, we are required to create a story chronologically through an interactive timeline. Creating interactive time via Circavie is fresh to me and actually I have never heard or used this application before, but I found this assignment is both challenging and interesting.

By doing this assignment, I have a clearer knowledge and better understanding on the timeline. I also find that CircaVie offers us a good place to present information or events in a chronological order. The information can also be presented in an interesting and vivid way so that people can easily find out what happened during the different periods. Users can upload their different pictures or even video clips in the different time point and the final information can be shown in a very clear way. After finishing it, I realized that this application also has its special place and importance in teaching. Teachers can use it to present chronological information and materials to students so that students can receive and understand the information in a better way. For example, when teachers are teaching the British or American literature development, a clear development line can be drawn via CircaVie, with pictures of representative poets and events, and students can learn and memorize this very easily.

CircaVie also has its great potentials in education. Given enough thoughts, this application can make learning and memorizing easier and interesting.

Link: http://www.circavie.com/timelines/e9352517-fe59-5faf-b6a8-78b2512ada3a

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