Friday, 22 November 2019

Timelines with Timetoast

Some of the timelines of my students:



  • The learning objectives of the activity:
The objectives were: to raise awareness of the 19th century literature
To learn about the lives of the Brontë sisters
To reflect about the story we are reading now: Wuthering Heights.
To raise awareness of the situation of women writers and compare it to this day and age.
  • The advantages of using TimeToast for this activity
By using Timetoast they could reflect about the life of the three sisters and its influence on their books.

  • The steps you followed to set up the activity
I gave them this page to read and also the reader we are dealing with, Wuthering Heights. With these two things, they could decice whether to do the timeline abour their life, the book, or the period. First we read both texts, the book and the webpage. Then, I explained the way to do the timeline. In the timelines they had to include one link and photographs of their choice to illustrate it.


  • Any problems and how you and the students solved them. As they are Bachillerato students, no problems arose, and they did the timelines at home, some individually, some in pairs.
  • The students’ reaction – how did they feel about using TimeToast to complete the task?
They enjoyed the activity and saw the possibilities of creating timelines with other subjects.
  • Some things that you would change / improve next time
Perhaps I would tell them to choose the photographs more carefully and see if the links worked.
  • At least 3 ways that the use of TimeToast helped you achieve your learning objectives
It helped to reflect more carefully on the elements of the Brontë’s life present in the book
It helped to set the novel in its right period of history
It helped to raise awareness of the situation of women writers.
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