The first Web 2.0 site that I would like to review is called "xtimeline". You can find this website at http://www.xtimeline.com/index.aspx . I feel this website can be used in middle school and in high school in language arts, history, and even science. It's a great web based timeline that students and even teachers can use to create projects for learning. It's not just a standard hand drawn timeline, but a timeline that can have videos attached to it and pictures. Students could create timelines about novels they had read, create eyepopping timelines of periods in history, and even biographical timelines.
The second Web 2.0 site that I would like to review is called "My Fake Wall". This website can be found at http://www.myfakewall.com/ . This website would be great for students in upper middle and high school. The website says it is geared towards social studies, but I think it can very well be adapted towards language arts. The website looks very similiar to Facebook where they take people from history and create a profile page for him or her. I don't see why they couldn't do the same for a character in a book. Students will have to really study and learn in depth about the person they have to do a profile on plus have fun doing it.
I checked out your first site, xtimeline. It is really great! I think timelines are helpful to some learners, but a visual timeline would be even better!! The ability to add videos and pictures is great!
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