When I did the activity with TimeToast I was a bit lost and the outcome was not at all what I had expected. However, looking at Auria’s blog I discovered a really good idea to use it in class! What she did was to use it to summarise the main events in a literary text, which I think is a very good way to help students learn to find important information in a text. This is key for reading comprehension and also to develop their mediation skills.
I’ve also been thinking for a while that I’d like my students to read a book in English but I didn’t know what to do to assess it, for, on the one hand, I find presentations about books extremely boring and, on the other, if every student reads a different book, it’s impossible to do an exam (not to mention that I’m against using exams to promote reading!). Therefore, I think I’ll use TimeToast. Obviously, I'll tell students they can make up the dates if they’re not clear in the book. Learning from my experience and Auria’s, I’ve the designed the following activity:
1.Students read a book of their choice and make a list of events that happen in the story while they’re reading it.
2.Then, they decide which are the most important events in the story and put them in order.
3.They look for images to illustrate the events and summarise them in one to three sentences.
4.Finally, they make a timeline on TimeToast and share it with their partners using a padlet board.
As this activity requires a lot of time because students have first to choose a book and read it, I cannot offer a sample made by my students, but I have created one to show you what the result would look like. You can see it here.
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