Dip Into Time

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A way to make timelines fun is by using Dipity. Dipity is a website that is fun and is a easy way to make timelines. To make a timeline on dipity you have to make an account, but it is free. Then you click make a time line, and go on from there. You pick a topic and then you choose a category that best fits the time line that you are planning on making. Then, you start by adding events to your timeline and you can add pictures, videos and links to your time line. Dipity is a fun way to help make timelines, especially since you can view other peoples timelines that they have made on dipity.

Making a timeline on dipity is a fun thing that students could do. I remember in grade school and in high school making timelines, and i always enjoyed it. Having dipity to help make the timelines would be an asset to the class. Being able to add picture and video is something fun that would be beneficial to a timeline. Since a lot of pictures are computer based it would help the students by making it convenient to access their pictures. Another way that dipity would benefit the classroom would be that you can share every students timelines with the other students in the classroom.  You could also let the students present their timelines and walk everyone through their timelines and further explain the descriptions already through out the timelines.

I thought that dipity was a really cool tool. After playing around making a timeline it showed me that it would be both beneficial and an asset to the classroom. I made a timeline of major homework assignments that i have due in the future, i found that it would be a tool that could be used as an online assignment notebook for the younger grades and a syllabus for older grades. Their are many different uses that dipity could be used for and it would be both beneficial and fun for both the students and the teachers to use.