Last updated on 28 March 2013
TimeToast is a CTBT tool that makes it possible to easily create chronological friezes in Flash format.
TimeToast makes it easy to create a timeline to tell an event or story step by step. Its great strength is its ease of use This makes it usable by teachers, but also by students if they are a little accompanied at the beginning if they are very young.
TimeToast creates a time scale on which you will be able to place events that will appear via bubbles with texts and photos. A zoom system allows you to contract or dilate time. The time period is configurable to your needs and can range from a few days to several centuries.
The use has been said to be simple. The inscription made you will be able to create your first chronological frieze by giving it a name and a description and then adding a cover image. Then you can place your first point by indicating a date a title and a description that can be long, add an image and one or more links. Then just move on to the next point. Simple. Once finished, all you have to do is publish your frieze. It can be consulted in the form of a multimedia animated frieze, but also in the form of a much more classic list.
TimeToast will provide you with a link or widget to share it via email or social media or to install it in your website or blog.
Note that TimToast allows you to browse the friezes created by other users on its website. An interesting option to find inspiration or to find a frieze illustrating one of your courses.
In the classroom.
TimeToast is a good TICE tool for teachers, but also for students. This simplicity of use makes it possible, for example, for students to work on the concept of time and historical storytelling. The same class can help build a single frieze. The tool also lends itself, quite well, to the work of students in small groups to format the results of research or documentation work. TimeToast is free.
Link: TimeToast
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