Sunday, February 23, 2025

Timetoast for education

 🔛 I've known lately about Timetoast for timelines and I have carried out a task to motivate my students. First, they had to talk about their lives and create an original poster. Here are some examples:



Once they understood how to develop a timeline I told them to choose an athlete or sport they liked, to look for a text about him/her/it and to create a timeline with Timetoast. 
Here are some examples:

    The learning objectives of the activity were that they order events in chronological order, that they use the past simple to talk about any events in the past and that they improve their digital portflio.

    The advantages of using TimeToast for this activity were many, they were always motivated when using computers, they could translate online vocabulary, they could look for pictures to make it more attractive, they attached this activity in their blog/porfolio.

    The steps I followed to set up the activity were the following:
1. I gave them a set of sentences about someone's life and told them to write them in the past.
2. Then, I asked them to write in a postit any event about them.
3. Next, the whole group stood up and ordered the postits in chronological order.
4. Eventually, they made their life's timelines in a poster.
5. Finally, they had to do the same but with an athlete or sport, looking for a text in the internet and afterwards taking major events and introducing them in their timeline in TIMETOAST. 
6. Co-evalution was done with 2 stars and 1 wish: 2 things they liked about each other's timelines and 1 thing they needed to improve. 

    The students liked TimeToast tool and were happy to complete the task digitally.

    Some things that I would change / improve next time maybe that we all work with the same text, because they spent a lot of time looking for and choosing one.

    TimeToast helped me achieve my learning objectives through ordering events automatically, improving their digital portfolios and continuing to revise and practice with past simple forms. 




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