TimeToast

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

-Designing a timeline

-Watching the film “The Darkest Hour”

-Letting my 1st BACH students know about the events that took place during WWII in the UK.

ADVANTAGES of using TimeToast

It is a perfect tool to help students get a visual image of historical events.

It helps them remember dates and, therefore, it can be an excellent studying tool.

Once it is done, you can remember everything just by taking a quick glance.

It is user-friendly and students will learn easily how to use it. On top of that, there are thousands of tutorials that can help our students get started with this tool.

Students can design their own product rather than learning one that has already been done by someone else.

It shows how a student organises concepts in his head.

STEPS

Although I haven’t been able to implement it in my class due to the COVID-19 outbreak, these are the steps I would have followed:

1. Short introduction about World War II.
2. Showing my students a timeline of the most important events.
3. Explanation of the task: they have to design a timeline of the film we are going to watch.
4. Watching the film in class.
5. Learning how to use the tool TIMETOAST and insert a couple of events, as well as their descriptions and dates so they learn to use it.
6. Open a task in Google Classroom so they can all upload their timelines.

OTHER IDEAS

This activity could also work with the book they are reading in class. Instead of answering boring questions once they are done reading it, they could design their own timeline.

PROBLEMS

Problem: Students that weren’t in class on the day I explained how to use TimeToast. 

Solution: I will send them this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gW-sFjqJT4

HOW TIMETOAST HAS HELPED

It has helped my students to know the main events that took place during WWII.

It has helped me to know that my students have watched and understood the film.

They have learned a new tool that they can use to organize their ideas chronologically.