REFLECTION ABOUT TIMETOAST ACTIVITY
The learning objectives of this activity is to encourage cooperative work among students in order to reinforce strategies as self-regulation, plannin and, self-evaluation
The advantages of using TimeToast for this activity is to approach new technologies to the students, to know a new application to work with in groups at class, and to show information in a different way.
First, we have worked on reading texts about their favourite artists in music, given by the teacher previously. After making some comprehensive questions, we put in commons some basic information about these famous singers (Michael Jackson, Adele, David Bowie). I work in a school for adults, that is why we chose these artists from the students' generation.
We had some problems with technologies, because our classrooms do not have any computers, so they had to use Timetoast with their mobiles phones, what is hard to do when you are a beginner on this area. Anyway, the students felt open-minded to this new way to work, little afraid from the start, but it finally worked.
I would change the possibility to work at home too, but this is not necessarily a mishap.
Timetoast is a great resource to encourage your students to use new applications and technologies, to work in groups and discuss about any subject and, finally, to allow teachers to create and share timelines that help students understand and contextualize history.
Some examples of timelines made by the School for Adults' students are:
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/adele-81ea4289-1250-46be-ac9d-14e4a7572d56
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photo/21152097/image/large_square-dd0d3b25374f2facd21c346b968a9201.jpeg
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/david-bowie-c8605d06-db5e-4e57-b122-c610d1153fb7
