Briana

[|Timeline JS3: Women in Computing]

1) __How it works__:

With this digital multimedia tool, students are able to explore a timeline of a topic or events by clicking on either the events displayed on the timeline at the bottom or by clicking the next button to go through the events sequentially. Each event includes either images, audio clips, videos from Youtube, quotations, Wikipedia excerpts, etc. along with an explanation of the event and or page on the timeline.

2) __Why you'd use it for student learning:__

This tool would be for useful for students to be able to connect events across various time periods and across cultures. Being able to logically organize events, the progression of important ideas and or movements, and the influence people and groups had on history are also able to be noted and integrated into this timeline. It also includes multimedia that will help make the tool accessible for students of multiple intelligences and learning styles. This tool could also hypothetically require students to have to construct knowledge if I was to ask them to create pages or events on the timeline as a part of a class assignment. This would open up the possibility for students to explore what information would be appropriate to include on their page/events, the best type of media to include, and how their page would have to fit into the overall narrative of the timeline.

3) T__ry to find examples within the site showing how it has been used for teaching and learning. Or, create an example. Add hyperlinks within your Wiki page to help readers of your page explore the features of your website/tool that you found interesting__. **Be ready to introduce the site/resource to our class.**

1. //1985 - "The Mother of the Internet"// : The video of Radia Perlman's acceptance speech into the Internet Hall of Fame really helped me understand why her contributions to networking were significant. Without the video, the reader is left with few details to draw from to understand what she did and why what she has done with protocol was significant. Even after only watching the first minute of the video, I have learned that Perlman's contributions were significant in her own mind because they made the internet/the network more reliable and accessible for non-tech savvy users.

2. //1815-1852 - "Ada Lovelace"//: This event on the timeline discusses how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace is accredited as the first computer programmer. At first glance, the reader of the page has no clue what project she worked on and how she came to earn that attribution, because of course, computers were not developed until the late 20th century, long after she was dead. However the event includes a hyperlink that specifically takes the viewer to a Wikipedia page that offers them more about Lovelace's contributions to Charles Babbage's work.