Dipity.com

Group Members: Carter, Ramos, Hennessey

|| **  How Can the Tool be Used in Education? ** ||  **  Content Area/s in Which Tool Would Be Useful  **  ||  **  Advantages  ** || **  Disadvantages  **  || URL: http://www.dipity.com/ Cost: Free Premium membership- 4.95/month at minimum. Packages up to 99.95 month Description: Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines. || Teachers can create an interactive timeline for students to explore. Students can be assigned to create a timeline on a given subject. An alternate way to do the “all about me” project to allow students to share about their lives. See next column. || History Science Personal history Planning/organizing procedures Pacing long term assignments Story development/line Character development Mathematics- history of ____ “How to solve a problem”- step by step procedure etc. || Interactive Allows pictures to be loaded Can be turned into a “flip book” Maneuverability- able to change perspective, presentation style and If appropriately chunked- ie students were given a day to locate pictures, then a day to add them to timeline, a day to create captions etc it might combat computer/network speed issues. Great as a formative assessment || Must sign up to use Does not appear to be a great way to print the finished project Would have to teach students how to link to a picture or upload a picture Current state of network/computer speed makes the process of creating and adding pictures quite frustrating Requires significant teacher prep for providing adequate number of events that could be added if not based on a free choice topic Must be able to have a visual representation DOESN’T currently print ||
 * ** Name of Tool, URL (if Web-based), Cost & Description  **
 * Name: Dipity