Timeliner Guide - Needham Public Schools

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Tom Snyder Productions
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Create, illustrate, and print time lines with ease!
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Credits
Publisher
Richard Abrams
Editor-in-Chief
David Dockterman
TimeLiner 5.0 Design Team
Hedrick Ellis, Sean Nolan, and Robert Thibeault
Original design by Tom Snyder and David Kaemmer
Programming
Sean Nolan
Art and Design
Interface Design: Robert Thibeault
Additional Graphics: Christine Barie and Sharon Glick
Documentation Design: Paula Rheaume
Executive Producer
Hedrick Ellis
Associate Producer
Dave Dussault
Software Testing
Zlatka Fitneva, Kevin Kennedy-Spaien, and Mark Lynch
Editor
Laurel Kayne
Proofreader
Pauline Chin
Thanks to the team at Tom Snyder Productions:
Carl Adams, Jessica Adler, Mark Airey, Tony Allen, Seth Alpert, Phillip Andrews, Amy Ashman, Heidi August, Liz Baker, Erin Bergin, Eytan Bernet,
Marci Bernstein, Lori Bertino, Melissa Boles, Tina Bourgeois, Dee Boyd, Brian Briggs, Meghan Cahill, Ronan Campbell, Andrea Castellanos, Brian Cerasuolo, Amy Conklin,
Becky Conners, Rachel Cook, Jonas Cox, Mary Crane, Nancy Csaplar, Evemarie Davis, Will Davis, Patrick Downie, Kerry Dwyer, Peter Erwin, Caitlin Fahey,
Jack Ferraiolo, Carrie Finison, Tim Finn, Maria Flanagan, Alan Foreman, Aya Fukuda, Sean Gallagher, Mandy Gallant, Melissa Galsky, Chris Georgenes, Terry Gilligan,
Lisa Gillim, Jen Gimber, Eric Gitelson, Kim Goodman, Rebecca Graham, Rish Green, David Grotrian, Sean Hagan, Lisa Hamanaka, Lauren Harmen,
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John Simpson, Andrew Smaha, Jody Snider, Arlene Steele, Deb Stolusky, David Tata, Kaydi Terwilliger, Sandra Thinschmidt, Elizabeth Trippe, Jim Twiss, Mark Usher,
Kim Verner, Stephanie Wayda, Cara Weir, Chrissie Welch, Caroline Wingerd, Nelson Wolf, Angela Wong, Damon Wong, Jleaugen Wong, Amy Yau
Special Thanks to the following educators, students, and friends:
Annette Donnelly, Hench Ellis, Margot Ellis, Sharon Jackson, Carol Lach, Sandy Morris, David O’Donnell, and Dale Van Eck. Also teachers at the following schools:
Hemenway School in Framingham, MA; Horace Mann School in Franklin, MA; Page/Hilltop School in Ayer, MA; Patrick Lyndon School in West Roxbury, MA;
Mother Caroline Academy in Dorchester, MA.
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Table of Contents
Getting Started ................................................................1
What Is TimeLiner? .....................................................................1
What You Get & What You Need ............................................2
A Quick Feature Snapshot ........................................................3
National and State Standards ....................................................4
Quick Install & Easy Start .........................................................5
WalkThrough .................................................................11
Banner View ..............................................................................13
Compact View ..........................................................................32
List View ....................................................................................35
Data View ..................................................................................37
Slideshow View ........................................................................39
Creating a New Time Line ......................................................42
Features & Functions ....................................................45
Menu Options ...........................................................................46
Shortcuts & Tips .......................................................................51
Advanced Features ..................................................................56
Using TimeLiner with the Internet .........................................65
Quick Reference Questions & Answers ................................67
Classroom Activities ......................................................69
25 Ideas for Using TimeLiner Across the Curriculum ...........70
Social Studies ......................................................................70
U.S. & World History .........................................................71
Science .................................................................................73
Language Arts ....................................................................74
Math .....................................................................................75
Art & Music .........................................................................76
Teacher Projects .........................................................................77
Student Projects and Worksheets ...........................................79
Index ...............................................................................84
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Getting Started
What Is TimeLiner?
Time lines have long been considered a valuable way to teach many subject
areas. TimeLiner is a practical, easy-to-use tool for creating and printing
time lines of historical, contemporary, and future events. With TimeLiner
you can construct banner time lines that wrap around your classroom or
extend along school hallways. Or you can print single-page time lines for
handy reference and review, or even poster-size time lines for your bulletin
board. New features in TimeLiner 5.0 include:
• over 400 historical photographs and clip art files to add to your
time lines
• the ability to add movies, sounds, and Web links to any event in your
time line
• a slideshow view to display your time line as a multimedia presentation
TimeLiner truly is easy to use. You simply type events or items in any order,
and TimeLiner does the rest. The program puts everything in chronological
order and figures out the correct proportional spacing. Time lines can easily
be merged, edited, and printed. You can add graphics, sounds, movies,
notes, and titles; customize font sizes, styles and colors; and more!
You can also easily create time lines that display the relationship between
proportional information — such as time, size, weight, speed, distance, and
temperature — making it a valuable resource for math and science classes.
We know you’ll love the power and flexibility of this program!
As always, we would love to hear your questions, comments, and suggestions.
Please call us at 1-800-342-0236, or email us at [email protected]. Enjoy!
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Getting Started
What You Get & What You Need
What You Get
• Hybrid Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM with TimeLiner software; hundreds
of graphics, sample movies, and sounds; a set of sample time lines, and
an electronic version of this Teacher’s Guide.
• This Teacher’s Guide
What You Need
Computer
System
RAM
Macintosh
Power PC
or higher
8.1 or later
24 megs
Pentium 133
or higher
Monitor
256-color;
640 x 480
resolution
or higher
Windows 95
or higher
32 megs
Hard Disk
CD-ROM
55 megs
of free
disk space
Double-speed
or higher
70 megs
of free
disk space
Ready-Made Time Lines
We offer a collection of ready-made time lines on different topics, sold separately on CD-ROM. The topics include:
Social Studies
• American History
• The Civil War
• World History
• Pre- & Ancient History
• Women in History
• African-American History
• Hispanic Americans
• Native Americans
• History of Exploration
Science
• Science & Technology
• Dinosaurs & Other Big Stuff
Call us to place an order or for more information at 1-800-342-0236.
Or visit us on the Web at www.timeliner.com.
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Getting Started
A Quick Feature Snapshot
Here’s a quick snapshot of just some of the features of this powerful
program. A good way to familiarize yourself with these features is to complete the WalkThrough starting on page 11.
Create Time Lines
With TimeLiner you can easily create all kinds of time lines including:
• Historical/standard time lines
• Geological time lines
• Day-long time lines
• Week-long time lines
• Year-long time lines
• Custom time lines
Print Time Lines
With TimeLiner you can easily print the following types of time lines:
• Banner time lines
• Single-page time lines
• Poster-size and multi-page time lines
• Lists
Present Time Lines
TimeLiner lets you add multimedia elements and Web links to any event on
your time line. You can create interactive time lines, or display your time
line as a slideshow that displays movies, graphics, sounds, and notes.
Merge Time Lines
TimeLiner also lets you merge multiple time lines with the click of a button.
Two or more themes can be presented in one time line, using different colors or fonts to highlight differences for easy cross-comparisons. Merged
time lines can help make historical events more relevant to students by putting them in meaningful contexts.
For example, students can create a time line of important events in United
States history. Then they can create personal history time lines. With the
push of a button you can merge students’ personal time lines with the U.S.
historical time line, instantly creating a new time line that puts historical
events in a personal context. “Oh, during the Depression my grandmother was
in the same grade I’m in now!”
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Getting Started
National and State Standards
TimeLiner and the suggested activities in this guide can help you meet
national and state standards. Below is a list of common state standards that
TimeLiner can help you meet.
In addition, we have matched TimeLiner to the standards for individual states,
including California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Texas,
Virginia, and more. We are continuously updating these standards. For an up-todate list, please visit www.tomsnyder.com/standards and look for your state.
Social Studies
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Constructing time lines of events in our life
Constructing time lines of people and events in local history
Constructing time lines of people and events in state history
Constructing time lines of events in American history
Constructing multiple-tiered time lines that show how different events
occurred simultaneously
Identifying ways in which history can be organized chronologically
Interpreting time lines
Interpreting data in multiple-tiered time lines
Interpreting data in time lines to determine other events occurring simultaneously
Identifying ways in which history can be organized thematically
Transforming primary data into charts
English/Language Arts
• Interpreting graphic representations such as pictures, maps, charts, graphs,
diagrams, and photos to find information
• Representing essential ideas and supporting details using outlines or graphs
• Using spatial order to organize information in text
• Recording information on charts and graphs
• Organizing text chronologically
• Categorizing information using text organizers such as headings and
graphic features
• Including charts, tables, illustrations, and other graphic aids to enhance
a written composition
• Creating charts and labels to organize information
Science
• Constructing data tables
• Making a time line that shows the evolutionary sequence of major
animal groups
• Organizing data in ways that show visual relationships between measurements of matter
• Making a geologic time line to determine when each phylum appeared
Mathematics
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Recording data in a table
Reading and interpreting a bar graph
Using a graph to compare data
Representing the same data set in more than one way
Getting Started
Quick Install & Easy Start
This section gives you an overview of some of TimeLiner’s main features.
You’ll learn how to:
• add events
• display your time line in 5 different views
• add graphics, labels, movies, sounds, notes, and Web links to your time line
• merge time lines
More information about these and other features is available in the
WalkThrough and Advanced Features sections, and in the program’s
online Help feature.
Installing the Software
Macintosh
1. Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Double-click the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
3. To launch the program, simply double-click the TimeLiner icon on the
computer’s hard drive.
Windows
1. Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
2. From the Start button, choose Run.
3. Type D:\SETUP (where D is your CD-ROM drive). Follow the on-screen
directions to install TimeLiner.
4. To launch the program, go to the Start menu and choose TimeLiner from
the Programs folder.
For network installation instructions see the ReadMe on the network CD-ROM.
Getting Started
Double-click the TimeLiner icon to start the program.
Creating a Standard Time Line
1. Click New on the title screen, then click OK to select a Standard time line.
2. Click New Event on the clock to create an event.
New Event dialog box
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Getting Started
3. Type the date of your birthday in the When box.
4. Press the Tab key and type “I was born” in the What box, then click OK.
You will notice that your information now appears under the When and
What columns. This is the Data View.
5. Add a few more events to your time line. Click New Event on the clock
and follow the same steps you did for your first event.
Editing and Deleting Events
1. Click an event to select it.
2. Now click Edit on the clock. The Edit Event box comes up, enabling
you to edit your event.
3. Click the little box next to the word “to” and enter an end date for your
event (make one up if necessary so you can see how this feature works).
4. Click OK; notice an End column has appeared.
5. Click another event and click Delete on the clock. Click Cancel, since we
don’t really want to delete this event. If you mistakenly delete an event,
you can choose Undo Delete from the Edit menu (only right after you
delete it). Deleting removes an event permanently from all five views
of a time line.
The Five Views
TimeLiner has five views — Data, Banner, Compact, List, and Slideshow.
To switch between views, simply click the little icons near the top left
of the screen. When you enter data it is entered automatically into all five
views. Try each view now.
Data View
Clock buttons
Banner View
Compact View
List View
Slideshow View
The Slideshow View is designed for displaying multimedia elements. Each
view, except the Slideshow View, can be customized with different fonts,
styles, sizes, colors, etc. After exploring the different views, switch to the
Banner View.
Expanding and Compressing Your Time Line
1. Click Expand on the clock a few times; watch your time line grow. Now
click Compress and watch it shrink.
Customizing Events
1. Click an event to select it. (You should still be in the Banner View.)
Expand &
Compress buttons
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2. Click the Choose Font button
at the top of the screen. The Choose
Font dialog box appears, allowing you to customize font and font style,
size, and color for this event.
Getting Started
3. Click the Edit Flag Style button
at the top of the screen. The Edit Flag
Style dialog box appears, allowing you to customize the shape and color
of the flag.
Adding Labels
TimeLiner allows you to add editable text boxes to your time lines. These
text boxes can be used to create titles for a time line as well as comment
boxes next to flags and events.
1. To add a title or comment, click Label on the clock. In the dialog box that
pops up type a title for your time line and click OK.
2. To move this text box, simply click it, hold the mouse down, and drag
it anywhere you want. If you place a text box above a date, it gets
anchored to that date, so if you expand or compress your time line the
text boxes automatically move with their dates.
The Label button lets you
add titles and captions
to your time line.
Adding Graphics
TimeLiner comes with over 400 graphics including hundreds of historical
photographs. You can also add your own graphics by copying from the
scrapbook, clipboard, or a paint program and pasting them into your time
line.
1. To add a graphic, click Graphic on the clock. The Add Graphic dialog
box appears. Click a theme, such as African-Americans. Previews of your
graphics appear on the right.
The Graphic button
lets you choose from
over 400 graphics to
add to your time line.
Add Graphic dialog box
2. Select a graphic and click OK. To move this graphic, simply click it, hold
the mouse down, and drag it anywhere you want. You can also resize
your graphic by dragging one of its corners.
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Getting Started
Adding Multimedia, Notes, Web Links, and Categories to Your Time Line
TimeLiner comes with sample sounds and movies to add to your
time lines, and you can also add your own. You can also add notes and a
Web link to any event on your time line. Notes and movies will not print
with your time line but are great for slideshows and interactive presentations.
In addition, you can organize your events by theme by creating categories
for your time line events.
1. To add multimedia, notes, and categories, click an event on your time
line and click Edit on the clock.
2. In the Edit Event box click the tabs on the bottom and follow the
on-screen instructions.
Edit Event dialog box
3. After you have added new elements to an event, return to the Banner
View. You will notice a blue media link icon next to the event. Click the
icon, hold your mouse down, and select an item such as Notes from the
pop-up menu. The note appears on screen. Click anywhere on screen to
make the note disappear.
Note: For more information about these features see page 18.
Printing a Banner Time Line
Print button
Click Print on the clock. A print preview appears. The number of pages is
determined by the amount of information in your time line, and by how
much you expanded or compressed your time line. The Page Setup button
allows you to choose your page orientation. For banner time lines we
recommend landscape (wider than tall). You can add a border to your time
line, and add crop marks to the pages to make it easier to cut and tape long
time lines together.
Merging Time Lines
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1. Click Merge on the clock.
2. Click Walkthrough_HST in the TimeLiner folder. Then click Open.
Getting Started
3. Your time line and the WalkThrough time line are now merged in a new,
untitled time line that you can save with a different name. Your original
two time lines remain unchanged.
Merged time lines help make historical events more meaningful to students
by putting them in context. For example, have students create a time line of
events in U.S. history. Then have them create time lines of their family history. With the click of a button you can merge students’ personal time lines
with the U.S. history time line, instantly putting history in a personal context. Or try merging time lines of American literature and U.S. history.
Other Kinds of Time Lines
Choose Time Line Type dialog box
Standard
Standard time lines are the typical chronological time lines.
Yearly/Monthly
Yearly/monthly time lines, such as a school year, are not set in any particular calendar year. They can be one year or one month long.
Weekly
Weekly time lines, such as a weekly schedule, are not set in any particular
calendar week. These time lines can show what occurs regularly on certain
days of the week.
Daily
Daily time lines, such as a class schedule, are not set in any particular calendar day. These time lines can show what occurs regularly at certain times of
the day.
Geologic
Events in a geologic time line can range from 100 billion years ago to zero
(the present).
Custom
Custom time lines present non-time-based data such as temperature,
distance, or percent.
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WalkThrough
This section takes you step by step through all the options for formatting,
presenting, and printing a time line. You’ll learn how to
• add events
• display your time line in 5 different views
• customize an event’s font, color, and flag style
• add graphics, movies, sounds, notes, and Web links to your time line
• present your time line as a slideshow
• print your time line in a variety of formats
As you become more familiar with the program, you’ll begin to see all sorts
of ways that you and your students can use TimeLiner. Information covered
in the WalkThrough is also available in the program’s online Help feature.
The WalkThrough File
Before we jump into creating a time line from scratch, let’s explore a time
line that has already been created specifically for this WalkThrough.
Double-click the TimeLiner icon to start the program. (If you haven’t
installed TimeLiner, please see page 5 before continuing.)
You’ll see the following title screen with three buttons: New, Open, and Quit
(Macintosh)/Exit (Windows).
Title screen
New Time Line starts a new time line from scratch.
Open a Time Line opens a time line that has already been saved.
Quit (Exit on Windows) quits TimeLiner.
To open the WalkThrough file, go to the Help menu and choose
WalkThrough Time Line.
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WalkThrough
This WalkThrough time line is a chronological time line on the life of Harry
S. Truman. It was created from my favorite source of information, the 50th
Anniversary Edition of The World Book Encyclopedia: 1966 (Book #18, T).
Before working on the WalkThrough time line, you should save it under
a different name, so you can have your own personal copy to play with
and preserve the original. Go to the File menu and choose Save As. Enter
a new name for the time line, such as Annette’s WalkThrough.
The Five Views of TimeLiner
TimeLiner has five views in which you can view, work on, and print time lines:
Data, Banner, Compact, List, and Slideshow. These views each offer unique
ways to display and print time lines. We shall explore each view shortly.
New time lines start in the Data View. The Data View is a good place to get
a “bird’s-eye view” of all your information. The Data View always shows
all data in a time line. Time lines that have already been saved open in the
view in which they were last saved. (The WalkThrough time line opens in
the Banner View.)
You can switch between views by using the View menu. You can also click
the icons at the top of the screen.
Data View
Banner View
Compact View
List View
Slideshow View
When you enter data, it is entered automatically into all five views. Let’s
begin our exploration of the Banner View.
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WalkThrough
Banner View
Often when we think of time lines, we think of huge banners streaming
around the walls of a classroom, with all kinds of pictures, events, colors,
flags, etc. That’s what the Banner View is all about. This view lets you
quickly and easily create and print banner time lines up to 100 pages long!
If you are not currently in the Banner View, click the Banner icon
at the top of the screen now.
Banner View
You should see the data in the WalkThrough time line represented in a banner
like the one above.
Full-, Half-, and Quarter-Size Views
Banner time lines can be viewed in three sizes: 100%, 50%, and 25%. To
change view size, click the icons in the lower left corner of the screen. The
left button zooms in, and the right button zooms out. Or choose Zoom In
and Zoom Out from the View menu. Try each size now.
Zoom In/Out
The way your time line looks when you view it at 100% is how it will look
when you print it. Because 100% will often not allow you to see all of your
events on the screen, you may choose to work in one of the reduced views.
We recommend 50%.
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WalkThrough
The Clock Tools
The main tools you will use in each view are located on the clock on the left
side of the screen. Additional features are located in the format bar along
the top of the screen and in the menu bar. The Banner View tools are: New
Event, Delete, Edit, Graphic, Label, Expand, Compress, Merge, and Print.
Let’s explore these tools now.
Adding New Events
According to my 1966 World Book source, Harry Truman is still alive, so we
have to update this time line with the date of his death. To add a new event,
or flag, click New Event on the clock. You’ll see the following dialog box:
New Event dialog box
The New Event button
lets you add a new
event to your time line.
Many of the tools in
TimeLiner have shortcut
key strokes. See page 51
for a list of shortcuts.
Type the date of this event: December 26, 1972. To move to the What box,
press the Tab key. Now type the event: Harry Truman died. Click OK to add
this event to the time line.
When adding new events you will often see a default date already entered
in the When box. This default date will either be the same as the last date
entered or, if you have a different event highlighted, the same as the date
for that event. If you are adding many events in chronological order, the
default date allows you to skip entering the same date or year over and
over. If the date for a new event is different from the default date, simply
type the new date over the highlighted default date.
Note: You have probably noticed that the sound feature is on. To turn the
sound off, choose Preferences from the Edit menu, then deselect Sound.
Ways to Enter Dates
TimeLiner is smart and flexible about interpreting different date formats.
As you type a date, you can see how TimeLiner interprets it by watching
underneath the text box. TimeLiner understands different date formats and
abbreviations. For example, you could type Dec 26, 1972 7:50 AM, or
12/26/72 7:50 AM and the program will understand it as: 7:50 AM Tuesday
December 26, 1972 AD.
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WalkThrough
Note: When entering dates in a numeric format (e.g., 12/26/72) be sure to
input the date in the order of month/day/year. If you want to use a
European style of day/month/year, change the Date & Time format in your
computer’s control panel. TimeLiner will interpret the dates correctly.
TimeLiner has been modified to make entering both 20th-century and 21stcentury dates easier. Years ending in 00–19 are interpreted as 21st-century
dates (i.e., 2000 through 2019) to make it easier to enter current events and
events in the near future. Years ending in 20–99 are interpreted as 20th-century dates (i.e., 1920 through 1999) to make it easier to enter most 20th-century historical dates. If you want to enter other dates, you’ll need to enter
all the digits for the year.
Two-digit years 00–19
will be interpreted as
21st-century years.
You can enter as much or as little detail as you choose. For example, you
might enter December 1972 or you might enter Tuesday December 26, 1972.
(Later we will see how to change the amount of detail seen in each view.)
Pick some random events now, and add them to the time line. Experiment
with different date formats and abbreviations. To enter dates in the late 20th
century (1920–1999) quickly, input the date with numbers and slashes. For
example, 12/26/72 will be interpreted as December 26, 1972. You can use
other shortcuts, including the first few letters of a month followed by either
a space or a slash. Here are some examples:
You Enter
12/26/72
d/26/72
12/72
d 26 72
72
ap 33
4/14/1865
1/1/00
The Result
December 26, 1972
December 26, 1972
December, 1972
December 26, 72 AD (not 1972)
72 AD
April, 33 AD
April 14, 1865
January 1, 2000
Note: When entering dates as numbers and slashes (e.g., 12/26/72), be sure
to input the date in order of month/day/year. Do not put a space before or
after a slash.
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WalkThrough
Dates with Ranges
If you are entering an event that covers a range of time — for example,
Harry Truman’s term as president from April 12, 1945 – January 19, 1953 —
click the “to” box next to the When box. This lets you add an end date for
your event. Click the New Event button now to add an event with a range.
New Event dialog box showing a range of time
Up-to-Date Dates
You can enter present or now as a date, too. The date present is always
assigned the current day’s date (the date you are working on the time line).
The date will always be seen as Present and is updated to the current date
each time you open that time line. Present can be used with both points in
time and ranges.
Deleting Events
Delete removes an event permanently from all five views of a time line. To
delete an event, click the event you want to remove, then click the Delete
on the clock.
The Delete button
allows you to remove
any event from your
time line at any time.
Let’s try deleting an event now. Scroll towards the right end of the time line
until you see the event, U.S. population in 1953 159,700,000. Click the event,
then click Delete on the clock. You will get a warning dialog box telling you
that deleting this event from the Banner View will also remove it from the
other views. If you make a mistake you can choose Undo from the Edit
menu; however, you must do so before making any other changes to the
time line.
Note for Windows Users: You have multiple undos, limited only by your
computer’s memory.
To skip the warning box
when you are deleting
an event, hold down the
Option key (Macintosh)
or the Alt key (Windows)
and then click Delete.
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Editing Events
You can edit any event at any time. Changes made to the text or date of an
event will be reflected in all five views.
Let’s edit an event now. Find and select the event circa 1897 that says,
By the time I was 23 I had read all the books in our Independence Public Library.
The truth is Truman had completed this wondrous feat by the time he was
13, not 23, so we need to correct this information.
WalkThrough
After you’ve selected this event, click Edit on the clock. (You can also double-click the event flag as a shortcut.) You will see the following dialog box:
Edit Event dialog box
Highlight the 2 in 23 and change it to a 1. Click OK. This change will be
made in all five views.
You may have noticed that this event has the date, ~1897. This means
approximately, or around, 1897. Typing circa, c, or using the “~” key (usually
located next to the number 1 at the top of a keyboard) will add the symbol
meaning “approximate” before a date.
Experiment with editing other events in this time line now.
Hiding and Including Events
You can hide events in a particular view without deleting the events from
other views. If, for example, you have an event that you want to show in
the Compact View, but you do not want it to show or print in the Banner
View, click the event and choose Hide Event from the Format menu. This
event will now be invisible and will not print from within this view.
Hiding Events
Let’s hide an event now. Find the event in 1934 that says, Elected to the
United States Senate. Click the event and choose Hide Event from the Format
menu. Notice that this event has now disappeared. It has not been deleted,
but it will not be visible, nor will it print, until it is included again. Events
can be hidden independently in different views.
The Edit button allows
you to edit any event
in your time line at
any time.
Including Events
Let’s learn how to make hidden events visible. Choose Include Event
from the Format menu. You will then see a dialog box listing all of the
hidden events.
Select one, two, or all of these events and click OK. These events will now
be visible in the Banner View of this time line. Events are hidden and
included independently in each view except the Data View which displays
all events in a time line, whether they’re hidden in different views or not.
Practice hiding and including different events now.
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Adding Categories, Web Links, and Multimedia
Adding a Category to an Event
TimeLiner lets you organize your events into categories so you can distinguish
events by theme. For example, the event mentioned earlier about reading
all the books in the library could be part of a category called “Education.”
To add a category, click an event, then click Edit on the clock. Click the
Category tab. You will see the following dialog box:
Categories let you
organize events by
theme for easy crosscomparisons.
Category dialog box
Click the pull-down menu and select New Category. (You will notice that
some categories have already been created for this time line.) The following
dialog box appears:
New Category dialog box
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Type Education. Click the Choose Category Font button. Choose a color and
style for this Category such as Maroon and Italic. This will help distinguish
these events on your time line. Click OK. You can add as many categories
as you want to a time line. To use the same Category for another event,
simply choose the category name from the pull-down menu. (See page 56
for more information about this feature.)
Adding Notes to an Event
The Notes tab lets you add Notes or more detailed information to an event.
These notes can be viewed as links to events in all views except the
Slideshow View, where they will be part of the slide. Notes will not print
with your time line.
Tip
Adding notes lets you
add links with more
detailed information
to your event.
Notes dialog box
Let’s add some notes to this event now. Click the Notes tab. In the large text
box type: In fact, Harry had read The Bible three times by the time he was 13.
Click OK.
Adding a Picture or Movie to an Event
You can attach either a picture or a movie (but not both) to any event in your
time line. These pictures or movies can be viewed as links to events in all
views except the Slideshow View, where they will be part of the slide. Pictures
or movies that you add in the Edit Event dialog box will not print with
your time line. To add a picture to print with your time line click Graphic
on the main screen. (See page 28 for more information about this feature.)
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Let’s add a picture to the time line now. Find the event in 1951 that says,
Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur as UN commander in Korea. Click
the event, and click Edit on the clock. Then click the Picture or Movie tab.
You will see the following dialog box:
Picture or Movie dialog box
Click the Import button. The Add Graphic dialog box will appear.
The Graphics Library includes over 400 historical photographs, clip art files,
sounds, and movies that you can add to your time lines. These files are
organized by theme. Let’s add a picture of General MacArthur now. Scroll
down the list on the left and select World War II. Previews of the files will
appear on the right. Click the picture of MacArthur; then click OK. You will
now see the picture in the Picture or Movie dialog box. Click OK.
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Note: Pictures and movies can be linked files or embedded in the time line
file. See page 63 for more information.
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Adding a Sound to an Event
You can add a sound the same way you added a picture, or you can record
your own sound within the program. Let’s add a sound link now. Find the
event in 1945 that says, U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Click
the event, then click Edit on the clock. Click the Sound tab. You will see the
following dialog box:
Sound dialog box
Click the Import button. In the list of files click Truman_A_Bomb.wav and
click OK. You will see a sound controller that indicates a sound has been
added. Click the Play button to preview your sound. Sounds can be played as
links to events in all views except the Data View.
You can also record your own sounds and attach them to events. To record
your own sound click the Record button and the Record panel appears.
Record panel
Click Record and start speaking. Click Stop when you are finished. Click
Play to hear your recording. Your recording will be saved with this event
on your time line.
Note: The maximum time of sound you can record is three minutes.
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Adding a Web Link to an Event
You can attach an Internet link to any event. This allows you to click on
events in your time line and go to a Web site. A great source of information
about the life of Harry Truman is the Truman Library in Independence,
Missouri. It includes a collection of his letters to his wife, Bess. Find the
event in 1919, Harry S. Truman and Elizabeth Virginia Wallace get married!
Click the event, then click Edit. Click the Web Link tab. You will see the
following dialog box:
Web Link dialog box
In the text box type www.trumanlibrary.org. By default this text box starts
with http:// which is a common prefix for Web addresses. To test your Web
link, click the Try It button. If your computer is connected to the Internet this
will launch your Web browser and take you to the Truman Library Web site.
The media link icon
indicates that a note,
sound, picture, movie,
or Web link has been
added to an event.
Let’s return to the Banner View so we can test all the media attachments we
just added. Click OK in the Edit Event dialog box and return to the Banner
View. You will notice that some events now have a small plus sign to their
left. This is the media link icon.
This indicates that media is attached to the event. Find the event in 1951
that mentions General MacArthur. Click and hold down the media link
icon and select the Picture or Movie item from the pop-up menu. The picture of MacArthur appears in the middle of the screen. Click anywhere else
on the screen for the picture to disappear. Try displaying the other media
links in the time line now.
Media Links pop-up menu
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Expanding and Compressing Your Time Line
The Expand and Compress buttons increase and decrease the width of your
time line. This allows you to show more or less detail in your time line.
Each time you click Expand, the space between flags and the detail on the
time scale increases. The opposite happens when you click Compress. Each
time you click Expand or Compress, the time line increases or decreases,
respectively, by about a third.
Experiment with expanding and compressing the WalkThrough time line now.
You can expand a banner to about 100 pages depending on your printer. As
you scroll left or right you will see the page number change. Try this now.
The Expand and
Compress buttons
allow you to show more
or less detail in your
time line.
Adjusting the Number of Pages
With larger time lines, expanding and compressing sometimes increases or
decreases the length of the time line in large chunks. However, you can easily
adjust your time line to be a specific length. On the bottom of the Truman
time line you will see a box that says page 2 of 26.
The first number, in this case 2, is the page number you are currently on,
and 26 is the total number of pages in your Banner time line. Click the 26.
Then simply type a number, such as 30, and you will have a 30-page time
line with all the same data.
To expand or compress
more rapidly, hold down
the Option key
(Macintosh) or the Alt
key (Windows) while
you click Expand or
Compress.
You can also click the first number, type a new number, and jump to a page
on your time line immediately without scrolling. Try this now.
Customizing an Event’s Font, Color, and Style
Using different fonts, sizes, styles, and colors is an exciting way to customize your time lines and highlight different types of events and relationships between events. For example, if you are creating a “Presidents of the
United States” time line, you might show all the Democrats in a blue, 18point font, and the Republicans in a red, 18-point font. A fast way to customize many events at once is to assign them to a Category and assign the
Category a unique font and style. Or you can customize events individually.
The WalkThrough time line has three different categories: Personal Events,
World Events, and U.S. Events. The styles have been customized as follows:
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Macintosh
Truman’s personal events are in Helvetica bold, 24-point, and blue; world
events are in Geneva outline, 24-point, and red; and U.S. events are in
Geneva italic, 24-point, and green.
Windows
Truman’s personal events are in Arial bold, 24-point, and blue; world
events are in Times New Roman, 24-point, and red; and U.S. events are
in Courier italic, 24-point, and green.
Choose Font button
Now scroll all the way to the beginning of the time line and select the event
that says, Harry Truman born in Lamar, MO. Notice that when a flag is highlighted it is surrounded by an orange outline.
Now that you’ve selected the first event, click the Choose Font button
at the top of the screen which has a large A on it. The Choose Font dialog
box will appear, allowing you to customize font style, size, and color for
this event.
Be creative and set a wild font, size, color, and style for this event. As
you make your selections you’ll see sample text in the lower left corner
(Macintosh) or lower right corner (Windows) of the dialog box that reflects
the font, size, style, and color choices you’ve made. Click OK when you’re
satisfied with your selections.
Customizing Groups of Events
You can customize more than one event at a time or all the events in the
time line at once. To change the style of all the events, choose Select All
Events from the Edit menu, then choose Choose Font from the Edit menu.
z-F (Macintosh) or
Control-F (Windows)
allows you to set the
font, size, style, and
color of any selected
event, title, or time
scale.
To customize a number of events that are not next to each other, hold the
z key (Macintosh) or the Control key (Windows) down while you select
the events you wish to customize. Try this now. Then click the Change Font
button to customize these events simultaneously.
To customize contiguous events, click the first event, then hold the Shift key
down and click the last event in that group. Try this now. Then click the
Choose Font button to customize these events simultaneously.
Customizing Individual Events
Events in each view, except the Slideshow View, can be customized independently. This means, for example, that one event can be blue, bold, 24point, and underlined in the Banner View, and one can be red, italic, and 72point in the Compact View.
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Changing the Flag Style
Changing the flag style is another way to customize events and highlight
relationships between different types of events. Flags can have different
shapes, flag colors, text colors, or fill colors. To change the style of an event
flag, first select the flag you wish to change. Then click the Edit Flag Style
button at the top of the screen. The Flag Style dialog box will appear,
allowing you to customize the shape and color of your flag.
Edit Flag Style button
Once you’ve selected
an event, press z-Y or
Control-Y to bring up
the Flag Style dialog box.
Flag Style dialog box
You can change the style of multiple flags by selecting several flags and
changing their styles at once. Experiment with some of the different styles now.
Changing the Size of the Flag
To change the size of a flag, click the red rectangle to the right of a selected
flag and drag left or right. Experiment with changing the size of different
flags now.
Adding Labels to Your Time Line
TimeLiner allows you to add editable text boxes or labels to your time lines.
These text boxes can show the title of your time line, or serve as comment
boxes next to flags and events. You can add these text boxes anywhere in
your time line. The following graphic has Harry S. Truman as a title for the
time line. It also has a comment box under the flag.
The Label button
allows you to add titles
and captions to your
time line.
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Use the Label button
to add titles or captions
to your time line.
z-L (Macintosh) or
Control-L (Windows)
brings up the Label
dialog box.
To add a title or comment, click the Label button on the clock. You will then
see a dialog box in which you can type the desired text.
Changing the Label Font
To change the font, size, color, and style of a label, click it and then click the
Choose Font button at the top of the screen.
Moving a Label
To move a label, click it and drag it. A label is anchored to the date above
which it is placed. If you expand or compress your time line, the label will
move with that date. If you are using a label for a comment box next to a
flag, the comment box will move with that flag.
Changing the Label Size
You can stretch or shrink a label by dragging the red rectangle on the right
edge of the box to the left or the right.
Editing a Label
To edit a label, double-click it, or click the label and click the Edit button.
Labels can be placed independently in each view except the Slideshow and
Data Views.
Adding the Date to Text
The Add Date to Text feature automatically adds the date of each event into
the event flag. Choose Add Date to Text from the Format menu now.
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Add Date to Text is set independently in each of the five views. This means,
for example, you may have Add Date to Text selected in the List View and
deselected in the Banner View for the same time line.
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Customizing the Time Scale
The time scale is the bottom axis of a Banner time line or the top of a
Compact time line. You can change the color, size, font, and style of the
time scale. To do this click the time scale to highlight it. Then click the Edit
Time Scale button at the top of the screen.
Edit Time Scale button
The Time Scale Style dialog box appears.
z-F (Macintosh) or
Control-F (Windows)
allows you to set the
font, size, style, and
color of any selected
event, label, or time scale.
Time Scale Style dialog box
You can adjust the thickness and color of the time scale. Click the
Choose Font button to change the font of the text on your time scale.
Changing the Time Scale Detail
As you expand your time line, the amount of detail on the time scale
increases, as seen in the next two examples of the same time line.
In the first view, the time line has been compressed to 15 pages and shows
every two years. In the second view, the time line has been expanded to 60
pages and shows every six months.
As you expand your
time line you can show
more detail on your
time scale.
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Using Date Format
You can also set the amount of detail you want on the time scale. For
example, you may not want the day of the week to show, or you may
not want AD to show, or you may want CE (Common Era) instead of AD.
These options are set by choosing Date Format from the Format menu. Try
this now. You will see the following dialog box:
Date Format dialog box
As you make changes in the Date Format dialog box, you will see those
changes reflected in a sample text line at the bottom right of the box.
Date Format also controls how the date will appear in an event when you
choose Add Date to Text (also in the Format menu). Experiment with different
date formats now and watch how your dates are affected.
Adding Printable Graphics to Your Time Line
Add Graphic button
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TimeLiner comes with a graphics library of over 400 images of famous
historical people and events as well as clip art images. These graphics
and your own saved graphics can be added to your time line simply
by clicking the Graphic button on the clock. The Add Graphic dialog
box appears.
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Click the themes on the left to see previews of the graphics. Select a graphic
and click OK.
To use your own saved graphics, click the Browse button and navigate to
the folder or directory where your graphic is stored. Select your graphic
and click OK. Your graphic will appear in your time line. You can also copy
a graphic from the scrapbook, clipboard, or paint program and paste it into
the time line.
A graphic will be anchored to the date above which it is placed. When you
expand or compress your time line the graphic will move with that date.
Graphics can be pasted independently in the Banner, Compact, and List
Views. This means you can have different graphics in the Banner, Compact,
and List Views in the same time line. Graphics will only appear in the
Slideshow View if they are added using the Edit Event button as described
on page 19.
Printing Your Banner
Banner Layout
To print your banner, click the Print button on the bottom of the clock,
or choose Print from the File menu. The Print Preview dialog box appears.
Print Preview dialog box
This lets you see snapshots of the individual pages of your time line. Before
you print, you may want to experiment with the layout of your banner.
How many pages long is it? How many pages high is it? You can change
the number of pages by expanding or compressing your time line. Banner
height is determined by page orientation (portrait or landscape) and by the
positioning of the time line on the page grid (the vertical and horizontal
dotted lines that you see running through your banner time line). For
Banner time lines we recommend landscape (wider than tall). You can
change the page setup by clicking the Page Setup button.
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You can also print crop marks (short lines on the edges of the paper) to help
you cut and tape the paper for long time lines, print a border pattern to frame
your time line, and print media link icons (small plus signs) to keep track of
which events have media attachments.
Notice the vertical and horizontal dotted lines on the following two screens.
These lines show you where the page breaks would be if you printed your
time line.
Macintosh Orientation
Windows Orientation
Portrait: taller than wide
Landscape: wider than tall
Select Quarter-size view from the View menu. Now change the page setup
from portrait to landscape (or vice versa). Notice how your time line’s position changes on the page grid.
If you want to increase the number of rows of pages in the height of your
time line, click the time scale and drag the banner down into the gray area,
off the bottom of the page. This will automatically add another row of pages
to the height. To decrease the number of rows of pages in the height of a
time line, again click the time scale and drag the banner up to fit in one
row. (Some time lines might be very large and require changing to a smaller
font size for the events to fit on only one row of pages. Or you might adjust
the height of the flags by selecting them and moving them up or down.)
Note: When printing time lines that are two or more rows of pages high,
some blank pages may print if no event flags fall on a particular page in
the top row.
Printing Part of Your Banner
If you don’t want to print the entire banner, you can enter specific pages to
print in the Print dialog box.
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Suppose you have a view that is 2 pages high and 5 pages wide. If you ask
for pages 2 through 3 you will get exactly that — 2 pages — unless
you are in the Banner View. In the Banner View, since you always know
what horizontal column number you are in (“Page 3 of 5” appears on the
screen), when you ask for “page 3,” TimeLiner actually prints column 3,
or pages 3 and 8.
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Hidden Events
Events that are hidden in your time line will not print from the view in
which they are hidden.
Continuous-Feed Printers
Some printers, such as the Hewlett-Packard 680c and 690c series, support
continuous-feed, or banner paper. This allows you to print in long strips
which does not require as much cutting and taping. If the paper is in portrait
mode (taller than wide), pages print a column at a time, so each column of 2
pages is a seamless whole. You need only separate the segments and tape
them together.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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If the paper is in landscape mode (wider than tall), pages are printed
one row at a time, so each row of 5 pages is a seamless whole:
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4
5
6
7
8
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Note: If you have a Banner time line that is 50 pages long, printing it
in landscape mode will save lots of cutting and pasting. We strongly
recommend printing in landscape mode for this reason!
When printing a long time line that is only one row of pages high, use
landscape mode. This will eliminate cutting and pasting pages altogether
because your banner will print horizontally as a seamless whole.
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Snapshot of Banner
You can take a snapshot of your time line by selecting Export Banner View
as Graphic from the File menu. A pull-down list of options lets you choose
to Copy Entire View or Save the image in different file formats such as
PICT, BMP, or JPEG.
Note: For Windows users, these features only work for time lines that are
3 pages wide or smaller. For Macintosh users, you can only save as a BMP
or JPEG if the time line is 3 pages wide or smaller.
This feature allows you to create a graphic of your time line that can then
be pasted into a paint program, word processor, or desktop publishing program, making it easy to create worksheets, lesson plans, tests, newsletters,
etc. using the time lines you created!
We have now covered most of the features of the Banner View. Feel free
to print all or part of this time line now before we move on to explore the
Compact View.
Compact View
Many of the Compact View tools work the same way as the tools in the
Banner View, already covered in this WalkThrough. We will not re-explain
those tools in this section. If you have specific questions about any tool or
option, please refer to the Index.
In the Compact View
you can create, view,
and print time lines
that range from
one page to a multipage poster.
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In the Compact View you can create, view, and print time lines that range
from one page to a multi-page poster. Single-page time lines are great for
worksheets, tests, newsletters, papers, lesson plans, etc. Poster time lines
are great for bulletin boards, as visuals for reports and presentations, and
for displays in hallway, classroom, auditorium, and home!
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The Compact View is also great for time lines that show events that are
ranges in time as well as points in time. Events in the Compact View are
represented as points in time or ranges rather than flags, as in the Banner
View. If you enter an event with a start date only, that event will be represented by an arrow.
If you enter an event with a start and end date, it will be represented in the
Compact View by a bar.
Let’s take a look at your WalkThrough time line in the Compact View.
Edit Bar Style button
Events that show
a range of time are
represented by bars
in the Compact View.
Compact View screen
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Arrows and bars in the Compact View can be filled with color or unfilled.
To change an arrow or bar, first click that event, then click the Edit Bar Style
button at the top of the screen.
Let’s try that now. Click the event Harry Truman’s term as President...
Then click the bar and then click the Edit Bar Style button. Choose one
of the colors from the list.
Bar Style dialog box
You can change the arrows and bars for more than one event at a time
by z-clicking (Macintosh), Control-clicking (Windows), or Shift-clicking to
select multiple events, and then holding the mouse down on any highlighted
arrow or bar.
Customizing an Event’s Font, Size, Color, and Style
To change an event’s font, size, style, and color, first select an event, or
multiple events, then click the Choose Font button at the top of the screen
or choose Choose Event Font from the Edit menu.
Creating Posters
Compact time lines can be printed on one page or expanded to create a
large poster. The following picture shows a Compact time line that will
print on six pages.
You can Option-click
(Macintosh) or Alt-click
(Windows) the Expand
button to enlarge your
time line in bigger
increments.
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Compact time line set to print on six pages
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There are a few ways you can increase the number of pages of a Compact
time line: you can expand the time line using the Expand button; you can
drag the time line past the borders of the page, to the right or down, which
will automatically increase the number of pages horizontally or vertically;
or you can increase the font size.
To move a whole time line, click the time scale line, hold the mouse down,
and drag.
Moving the time line by moving the time scale
The following features are covered in the Banner View section of this WalkThrough. Feel free to experiment with these features in the Compact View now.
Add Menu
• Add Graphic
• Add Label
Format Menu
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•
•
•
•
•
Add Date to Text
Use Event Range
Expand the Time Line
Compress the Time Line
Hide Events
Include Events
List View
The List View allows you to create a vertical list of the events in your time
line. As with the Banner and Compact Views, you can change the font, size,
style, and color of any event in the list. You can also hide events in the list.
Many of the List View tools work the same way as the tools in the views
already covered, so we won’t repeat the explanations here. If you have
specific questions about any tool or option, please refer to the index.
The List View allows
you to create a vertical
list of the events in
your time line.
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List View screen
Changing Symbols in the List View
Each event in the list begins with a small symbol. There are many symbols
from which to choose. Different symbols can be used to highlight different
types of events and relationships between events.
Edit Symbol Style button
To choose a symbol, first select an event then click the Edit Symbol Style
button, or click and hold the mouse down on the bullet of that event.
You will get the following pop-up dialog box:
Symbol Style dialog box
You can change the symbol style for multiple events at once. Select all the
events you want to change by z-clicking (Macintosh), Control-clicking
(Windows), or Shift-clicking and then holding the mouse down on the bullet of a selected event.
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Customizing an Event’s Font, Size, Color, and Style
To change the font, size, style, and color of an event, first select an event,
then click the Change Font format button at the top of the screen, or choose
Choose Event Font from the Edit menu.
Experiment now with these other features of the List View:
Add Menu
• Add Graphic
• Add Label
The Data View shows
all of your data at all
times, even if some
events are hidden
in other views.
Format Menu
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•
•
•
•
•
Add Date to Text
Use Event Range
Expand the Time Line
Compress the Time Line
Hide Events
Include Events
Data View
The Data View shows all of your data at all times, even if some events are
hidden in other views. This is the place to go for a “bird’s-eye view” of all
of your time line information.
Data View screen
There are as many as four columns in the Data View: Start, End
(if you are using Event Range), What, and Category (if you have
added any).
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The When Column (or Start & End)
This column shows the date of an event. Some events may have a starting
date and an ending date. To show both dates, simply choose Use Event
Range in the Format menu. The When column will become the Start column,
and an End column will be added. For your WalkThrough time line, Use
Event Range should already be selected.
The What Column
The second column is the What column. This is where you enter the information for an event.
Now let’s enter some events in the Data View. Scroll down to the bottom
of the time line and select the last event, which should be Elizabeth becomes
Queen of England in 1952, or Harry Truman died if you entered that event
during this WalkThrough. (Both of these scenarios assume you deleted the
population of the United States in 1953 event during this WalkThrough.)
Now press Return (Macintosh) or Enter (Windows) and you should see an
empty line. Pressing Return or Enter when on the last line of the Data View
always gives you a blank line.
Type in today’s date, then hit the Tab key twice to move over to the What
column. Enter “Today I became a TimeLiner expert!” as the event. If you hit
Return (Macintosh) or Enter (Windows) again you will get another blank
line ready for the next event. You can now type a new date and event. This
is a quick way to enter lots of data when you have a big list to input, especially if you are entering information in chronological order.
You can also add new events in the Data View by clicking the New Event
button and using the New Event dialog box.
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The Category Column
Category, a fourth column, appears if categories have been added to events.
If there are no categories in your time line you can choose Use Categories
from the Format menu to add a Category column.
The Selection Column
To the left of the Start column is a narrow column of gray rectangles.
Double-click on a rectangle next to an event to select it and to go to
the Edit Event dialog box.
Selection Column
Moving Between Columns
The Tab key moves you through the columns from left to right.
Shift-Tab moves you through the columns from right to left. Shift-Return
(Macintosh) or Shift-Enter (Windows) moves you up one column. The
Return (Macintosh) or Enter (Windows) key moves you down one column.
Editing Events
You can edit text directly in the text columns in the Data View, or you
can select an event and click the Edit button on the clock. When editing
a date, your changes will not become effective until you click the mouse
or press Tab, Return (Macintosh), or Enter (Windows).
Slideshow View
The Slideshow View allows you to create a slideshow of your time line
in which every event becomes a slide. The Slideshow View is most useful
if you have attached media elements to your events. Click the Slideshow
View icon at the top of the screen to switch to the Slideshow View.
Slideshow View button
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WalkThrough
Slideshow Setup screen (Macintosh)
Slideshow Setup
The Slideshow setup lets you change the look and feel of your slideshow.
Slide Transitions (Macintosh Only)
You can change the transition effects that appear between slides during a
slideshow. The default transition is Slide. Click the Transition pull-down
menu and select a transition such as Dissolve or Wipe. You will see a preview of your transition.
Background
You can change the background color or pattern that appears around the slides
during a slideshow. The default background color is beige. Click the Background pull-down menu and move your mouse to select a color or pattern.
Auto-Play Sounds and Movies
Check this box if you want sound and movies to play automatically when
a slide is displayed.
Auto-Advance
Check this box and then type a number to set the amount of time that each
slide will display.
Only Show Events with Media Attachments
Check this box to show only slides with media attachments such as sounds,
pictures, movies, notes, or Web links.
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WalkThrough
Loop
Check this box to cycle through the slides again and again without returning
to the Slideshow Setup screen. Press the ESC key to exit the slideshow.
Presenting Your Slideshow
Let’s look at a sample slideshow. Choose Open from the File menu. Select
the file called Sample Slideshow and click Open. The file will open in the
Data View. Click the Slideshow View button at the top of the screen. The
Slideshow Setup screen appears. Leave the check boxes unchecked and
click Run Slide Show.
Each slide will always display the event and date at the top of the screen.
A time line appears at the bottom of the screen with a flag indicating where
the current event is in the time line. Other elements—such as pictures,
movies, sounds, notes, and Web links—appear on slides if they have been
attached to an event. To advance to the next slide, click the Next button in
the lower right corner of the screen. To return to a previous slide, click Back
in the lower left corner of the screen. Press the ESC key (usually found in
the upper left corner of the keyboard) at any time to exit the slideshow.
Experiment now with some of the slideshow setup features.
Printing a Slideshow
To print a slideshow, choose Print from the File menu from the Slideshow
Setup screen. Each slide will print on one page. These printouts can help
you prepare for a slideshow presentation. This is also the only way to print
notes that are attached to events.
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WalkThrough
Creating a New Time Line
Now that you’ve mastered many of TimeLiner’s features, let’s explore creating a time line from scratch.
If you’ve just launched TimeLiner, click New on the Title Screen.
Title Screen
If you have a time line already open, choose New Time Line from the File
menu, or press z-N (Macintosh) or Control-N (Windows).
Choose Time Line Type dialog box
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There are six types of time lines to choose from: Standard, Yearly/Monthly,
Weekly, Daily, Geologic, and Custom. The WalkThrough time line is a
Standard time line. The basic tools and features we’ve covered in the
WalkThrough work the same way in all six types of time lines. Some of the
features will vary. Date Format, for example, will be slightly different in
each type of time line.
WalkThrough
Standard Time Lines
Standard time lines are the typical chronological time lines. A few examples
of Standard time lines are: A Family History, Famous African-American
Authors, Egyptian and Greek History, The Civil War, The Cold War, Vietnam, and
The Presidents. The time of the event entered can be as general as 1500 or as
specific as 4:32 AM, March 5, 1957.
Yearly/Monthly Time Lines
Yearly/Monthly time lines, such as a school year, are not anchored to
any particular year. They can be a year long, or a month long.
Weekly Time Lines
Weekly time lines, such as a weekly schedule, are not set in any particular
week. These time lines can show what occurs regularly on certain days of
the week.
Daily Time Lines
Daily time lines, such as a class schedule, are not set on any particular day.
These time lines can show what occurs regularly at certain times of the day.
Geologic Time Lines
Events in a Geologic time line can range from 100 billion years ago to zero
(the present). Dates can be entered in different forms including: 1 million;
1,000,000; and 1 MYA (Million Years Ago). In a Geologic time line you can
also prefix a year with a plus sign to indicate “in the future.”
Custom Time Lines
Custom time lines present non-time-based data such as temperature,
distance, or percent. Custom time lines can have any label you choose to
represent the units on the bottom axis. Some examples are: degrees, m.p.h.,
kilometers, and $. Choose Units in the Format menu to change the label of
a Custom time line.
Putting the diameters of the planets and the sun in a Banner time line
would be a good example of a Custom time line. This is a great way to
show how big the planets are relative to each other and compared to the
sun (which would be many, many, many pages towards the end of the banner). Custom time lines are great for showing concrete examples of information that can be quite abstract.
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WalkThrough
The End of the Line
This is the official end of the WalkThrough and the official beginning of
your own creative explorations with TimeLiner. We hope you enjoyed learning how to use this fabulously useful tool! Have fun creating different types
of time lines, entering data in the five different views, customizing, merging, and playing with the many features of TimeLiner.
Be sure to check out the rest of this guide for handy suggestions and some
very cool lesson plans, worksheets, and additional ideas. If you have any
questions, comments, suggestions, or great ideas you would like to share,
please call us at 1-800-342-0236. We’d love to talk to you!
We’re Online!
Visit TimeLiner Online at www.timeliner.com. The Web site includes links
to graphics, activities, and product information.
Or for questions or suggestions, email us at [email protected].
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Features & Functions
Menu Options ............................................................................46
Shortcuts & Tips ........................................................................51
Advanced Features ...................................................................56
Categories ...........................................................................56
Custom Art Folder ............................................................58
Formatting Dates ...............................................................58
Hiding and Including .......................................................60
Importing and Exporting Text .........................................60
Interactive Presentations Using Media Links ...............61
Merging Time Lines ...........................................................62
Preferences .........................................................................63
Sharing Files Between Macintosh & Windows ..............64
Using TimeLiner with the Internet ........................................65
Quick Reference Questions & Answers .................................67
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Menu Options
There are seven menus in the TimeLiner menu bar. These menus are: File,
Edit, View, Add, Format, Window, and Help. The following reference list
provides a description of all the options available within these seven menus.
File Menu
New Time Line…
Lets you start a new time line.
Open...
Lets you open a previously saved time line. You can have as many as six time
lines open at once. You can also open time lines created with TimeLiner 4.0.
Merge…
Lets you merge a second time line into the one you have open. Your new,
merged time line will be untitled, and your two original time lines will
remain unchanged.
Close
Closes your time line.
Save and Save As…
Both of these options let you save changes to your time line. Save As...
lets you give your time line another name or save it to a different location.
When you save time lines that your students may be opening later, you may
want to select the Stationery option in the Save dialog. Then students will
always open a copy of the time line and the original will remain unchanged.
Export as Graphic
This option is only available in the Banner, Compact, and List Views. It
allows you to save the view you see on your screen as a graphic. The
Export as Graphic feature has five options. The first is Copy Entire View,
which allows you to copy the current view to your clipboard and then paste
into another document.
You can also save the view as a PICT file (standard graphic formats for
Macintosh), a BMP file (standard graphic formats for Windows), or JPEG
file (commonly used graphic formats for use within Web pages or other
HTML documents). You will be able to save the graphic on your hard drive.
Note: For Windows users, these features only work for time lines that are
three pages wide or smaller. For Macintosh users, you can only save as a
BMP or JPEG if the time line is three pages wide or smaller.
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Page Setup…
Each view has its own separate Page Setup. The Page Setup Option allows
you to print your time line in landscape (wider than tall) or portrait (taller
than wide) paper orientation. Landscape is the default orientation for most
printers and works best for Banner time lines. Portrait works best for the
Compact and List Views.
Print…
Lets you see a print preview and then prints your time line. The Print
Preview includes check boxes that let you print a border around your time
line, print the media link icons to represent media attachments, and print
crop marks to make it easier to cut and tape multiple pages together. Click
Print to print your time line.
Quit (or Exit for Windows)
Quits TimeLiner.
Edit Menu
Undo
Undoes the last action. Generally, actions from all menus other than the File
menu can be undone. When you switch views, Undo becomes temporarily
disabled.
Cut and Copy
Puts a copy of the selection into your computer’s clipboard. This is for
graphics, labels, and text. Cut removes the selection from your time line and
adds it to the clipboard.
Paste
Puts a copy of the current clipboard contents at the cursor insertion point.
You can paste graphics, labels, and events.
Delete
Deletes the selected item. The Delete or Backspace key also does this.
Select All Events
Selects all events at once.
Edit
Allows you to edit the selected event or label. This option also allows you
to add media links to your event including: category, notes, picture or
movie, sound, and Web link.
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Choose Font
Allows you to change the color, style, size, and font of text for any selected
event, label, or time scale. Depending on the view that you are in this menu
item changes to Choose Data Font, Choose Event Font, Choose Label Font,
or Choose Time Scale Font. (The time scale is at the bottom axis of a Banner
time line, or at the top of a Compact time line.)
Choose Style
In the Banner, Compact, and List Views, event styles can be modified. In the
Banner View, Choose Style will allow you to choose the style of your flags.
In the Compact View, you may choose the style of the event range bar or
event arrowhead. And in the List View you may choose the style of your
bullets.
Categories
Lets you edit categories that you have already created. You can rename the
category, select all events from the category, assign the category to all selected events, or assign a new category to all selected events.
Preferences
Lets you customize certain features of the program. You can choose to have
program sounds on or off, hide the desktop, and set how media attachments will be linked to your files.
View Menu
Data
Takes you to the Data View.
Banner
Takes you to the Banner View.
Compact
Takes you to the Compact View.
List
Takes you to the List View.
Slideshow
Takes you to the Slideshow View.
Zoom In and Zoom Out
You can view and edit a time line with the view shown at 100%, 50%, or
25%. This is particularly useful when dragging around graphics and organizing the elements of your time line. The 100% view is how your time line
shows how your time line will look when it is printed.
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English/Español
Lets you toggle back and forth between Spanish and English.
Add Menu
New Event
Lets you add a new event (date and text).
New Graphic
Brings you to the Graphics Library where you can choose from the many
graphics available, or import your own graphics from your hard drive, a
CD, or the Internet. Graphics can only be selected for the Banner, Compact,
and List Views separately. For example, if you insert a graphic in the Banner
View and you would also like it to appear in the Compact View, you have
to switch to the Compact View, and also insert the graphic there. These
graphics will print with your time line.
New Label
Allows you to add editable text boxes to your current view. These text
boxes can be used to create titles as well as comment boxes next to events
and graphics. Labels can be resized, edited, and moved.
Format Menu
Use Event Range
If this is checked, and if “Add Date to Text” is on (see below), then the end
date as well as the start date will be added to the text for an event. For
example, if an event reads, “Bach 1685,” then choosing Use Event Range
would change the event to “Bach 1685–1750.”
Add Category to Text
If you have chosen a category for an event, with this option your category
will be printed after the text for that event.
Add Date to Text
If checked, date will be printed after text for that event.
Units...
This only appears if you have created a Custom time line. Lets you edit unit
labels such as inches or miles. Unit labels print on the end of every value in
the List, Compact, or Banner Views. Labels can be put at the beginning or
end of the value. For example, twenty-three degrees can be represented as
23˚ and twenty-three dollars can be represented as $23.
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Date Format...
Lets you modify the date format for the view you are in. You can show or
hide the month, day, hour, or minute, and optionally show or hide the day
of the week. You can also set the Time Format for a 24-hour clock and for
using BCE/CE (Before Common Era/Common Era) instead of BC/AD.
Date Format dialog box
Expand and Compress
These options allow you to increase or decrease the width of a Banner or
Compact time line.
Hide Event and Include Event…
Hides the selected event in the view you are in. Hidden events are NOT
deleted and can be shown at any time using Include Event from this menu.
Clean Up Flags
This option is available in the Banner View only. It moves all flags down
until they are tightly packed but not overlapping (as long as your time line
is expanded sufficiently). You may wish to do this after choosing Expand
Banner or after turning off Add Date to Text in the Banner View.
Window
This menu displays a list of all the TimeLiner files that are open. If you have
two or more time lines open, you can switch between them using this menu.
Help
HTML Help
Launches the online HTML help system.
Note: Macintosh users with OS 8.1 need an Internet Explorer or Netscape
4.0 browser or later to access the Help.
TimeLiner Web Site
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Launches the TimeLiner Web site where you can download sample time
lines, purchase ready-made time lines, link to Web sites with information
and images to add to your time lines, and receive the latest technical support
information. The URL is www.timeliner.com.
Shortcuts & Tips
Menu Shortcuts
Macintosh Shortcuts
Windows Shortcuts
File Menu
File Menu
Open:
Merge:
Close:
Save:
Print:
Quit:
z-O
z-M
z-W
z-S
z-P
z-Q
Open:
Merge:
Close:
Save:
Print:
Exit:
Control-O
Control-M
Control-W
Control-S
Control-P
Alt-F4
Edit Menu
Edit Menu
z-Z
Undo:
z-X
Cut:
z-C
Copy:
z-V
Paste:
z-A
Select All Events:
z-E
Edit:
z-F
Choose Event Font:
This option will change to Choose
Title Font, Choose Data Font, or
Choose Time Scale Font depending
on what type of item is selected.
Undo:
Control-Z
Cut:
Control-X
Copy:
Control-C
Paste:
Control-V
Select All Events:
Control-A
Edit:
Control-E
Choose Event Font: Control-F
This option will change to Choose
Title Font, Choose Data Font, or
Choose Time Scale Font depending
on what type of item is selected.
Choose Style:
z-Y
View Menu
Data:
List:
Compact:
Banner:
z-1
z-2
z-3
z-4
Data:
List:
Compact:
Banner:
Control-1
Control-2
Control-3
Control-4
Add Menu
z-N
z-G
z-L
Format Menu
Expand:
Compress:
Hide Event:
Include Event:
Control-Y
View Menu
Add Menu
New Event:
New Graphic:
New Label:
Choose Style:
New Event:
New Graphic:
New Label:
Control-N
Control-G
Control-L
Format Menu
z-[
z-]
z-H
z-I
Expand:
Compress:
Hide Event:
Include Event:
Control-[
Control-]
Control-H
Control-I
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Other Shortcuts
General
z-Click (Macintosh) or Control-Click (Windows)
Allows you to select multiple, non-contiguous events in Banner, Compact,
and List Views.
Shift-Click
Allows you to select groups of events by clicking the first event and then
Shift-clicking the last event. First, last, and all events in between will be
selected.
Option-Click (Macintosh) or Alt-Click (Windows)
Allows you to select graphics or other items hidden behind text.
Arrow Keys
You can use Right, Left, Up, and Down arrows to move through your
events in any time line view. In the Data View, the Right and Left arrows
allow you to move within a text field, and the Up and Down arrows allow
you to move up and down a column.
Data View
Option-New (Macintosh) or Alt-New (Windows)
Adds a new blank text field at the bottom of the page ready to accept data.
Shift-Return (Macintosh) or Shift-Enter (Windows)
Moves cursor upwards instead of downwards through columns.
Shift-Tab
Moves cursor from right to left rather than left to right through columns.
Banner View & Compact View
Option-Expand (Macintosh) or Alt-Expand (Windows)
Expands a time line in bigger increments than clicking Expand.
Option-Compress (Macintosh) or Alt-Compress (Windows)
Compresses a time line in bigger increments than clicking Compress.
Slideshow View
P Key
Allows you to pause the slideshow.
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ESC Key
Allows you to exit the slideshow.
Tips
Making a legend for your time line
If you use categories to distinguish your events by color, size, or font, you
need to make sure other people who look at the time line understand what
the different styles signify. Your time lime needs a legend. To create a legend:
1. Click the Label button.
2. Type information for your legend. For example, if you made a time line
of Civil War battles, Union victories could be in blue and Confederate
victories could be in gray. Your label might read: Union victories = blue,
Confederate victories = gray.
3. Click OK.
4. Click the label to select it, and drag it to a location on your time line
where it will be easy to see.
To make your legend clearer, you can make each line a different color. To
do this, each line needs to be a separate label.
Starting the time scale before the first event
The time scale of a Standard time line always begins with the first event.
For example, if your first event happened on June 5, 1962, then 1962 would
be the first year on the time scale. However, you might want your time line
to run from 1960–1970. Here’s how to do this:
1. For your first event, enter January 1, 1960 (or whatever year you want
your time scale to start). Don’t enter anything in the When field.
2. For your last event enter December 31, 1969. Don’t enter anything in the
When field.
3. Switch to the Banner View.
4. Click these two events to select them.
5. Click the Edit Flag Style button at the top of the screen. Set the text color,
outline color, and fill color to white.
When you print your time line these flags will not appear, but your time
line will begin at 1960 and end at 1970.
Saving stationery or template files
If you create time lines that you want students to open and modify, you
might want to save them as Stationery Format (Macintosh) or File Type
(Windows). Then students will always open a copy of the time line and the
original will remain unchanged.
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Adding pictures to your time lines
You can enhance your time lines with drawings and photographs related
o the events. To do this you must first get the pictures onto your computer’s
hard drive and save them as graphic or movie files. Here are some ways to
get your own pictures and movies into a form your computer will understand.
• Use a draw or paint program to create pictures and save the files as PICT,
BMP, JPEG, or GIF.
• Use a scanner to covert photographs or print material into digital format.
• Get your photos developed on disk or CD-ROM. Take your pictures with
any standard camera or disposable camera. Most developers will save
your pictures in digital format for either Macintosh or Windows if you
request this option.
• Use a digital camera. These pictures are ready to use with your computer
as soon as they’re taken.
Note: Pictures added by clicking the Graphic button on the main screen
will print with your time line. Pictures added by clicking the Picture or
Movie tab in the New Event or Edit Event dialog box will appear as media
links and in slideshows. They will not print with your time line.
Creating worksheets or quizzes
Making a Banner time line with empty flags is a good way to test students’
knowledge of chronological order. To do this:
1. Enter your dates and events as usual.
2. In the Banner View choose Select All Events from the Edit menu.
3. Click the Choose Fonts button at the top of the screen.
4. Change the text color to white. Your flags now appear empty.
5. Click the Label button.
6. Type a list of the events that should appear in the flags, being sure to mix
up the order. Click OK.
7. Position the label on the time line so it is easy to read.
8. Challenge your students to match the events with the flags. They can
write the events in the flags or write the number of the event in the flag.
Guided research
To encourage students to create multimedia time lines, create a time line
with 8-10 events. Associate questions with each event on the time line. For
example, if you have a time line about the life of John F. Kennedy, one event
might be Cuban Missile Crisis. Ask students, “What were the causes of the
Cuban Missile Crisis?” Challenge students to use multimedia links such as
notes, pictures, sounds, and Web links to give more detailed information
about this event.
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Presenting a slideshow
The Slideshow View is a great place to display multimedia elements such
as movies and sounds. If you are showing a time line with many events but
only a few of those events contain multimedia attachments, be sure to check
the box on the Slideshow Setup screen that says “Only Show Events with
Media Attachments.”
Choose a background pattern that matches the theme of your time line.
For example, for a Colonial History time line try the wood-grain pattern.
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Advanced Features
Categories
A Category in TimeLiner is a key word, such as politics or science, that can
be assigned to an event to distinguish it from other events, or show that it is
grouped together with other events. For instance, if you have a time line of
Civil War battles and you want to show which were won by the Confederate
Army and which were won by the Union Army, you can select all of the
Union victory events and assign the category Union Victory. Then you can
assign Confederate Victory to the other events.
Categories will get your students thinking about classification and grouping, and will distinguish events to keep them organized.
To use the Category feature, click an event and click the Edit button on the
clock. At the bottom of the Edit Event dialog box is a gray Category tab.
When you click the tab, you will see a drop-down box with the word None
in it. Click it and choose New Category; the dialog box below will open.
Type a category of your choice.
Note: A category must be associated with an event. If a category is assigned
to only one event and that event is deleted, then the category gets deleted.
New Category dialog box
Categories and Merging
Categories also come in handy when you merge time lines. If no categories
have been assigned to events in one time line, and you try to merge it with
another time line, you will be asked if you would like to assign a category
to all events in your time line. This way, the second time line can be distinguished when they are merged. Categories help to organize events so that
you can compare and contrast them easily.
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Editing Categories
To edit your categories, choose Categories from the Edit Menu. This dialog
box will appear:
Edit Categories dialog box
Select All Events in “x” (category name)
This feature allows you to select every event that has the same category
assigned to it. For instance, if four events have the category Republican,
clicking this button will select all four events so they can be edited at once.
Assign “x” (category name) to Selected Events
To use this feature, select multiple events and choose Categories from the
Edit menu. Click the category you would like to assign; then click the
Assign “x” to Selected Events button. For example, if Democrat is one of
your categories, and you have selected five events to assign that category
to, select Democrat from the list and click Assign “x” to Selected Events.
Democrat is now assigned to the five events.
Create New Category for Selected Events
To use this feature, select one or more events and choose Categories from
the Edit menu. Click the Create New Category for Selected Events button.
Type a category and click OK. All of the selected events are now assigned
the same category.
Rename Category
To rename a category, choose Categories from the Edit Menu. Click the category in the list and click the Rename Category button. Type in the new
name and click OK.
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Custom Art Folder
TimeLiner comes with a Graphics Library featuring hundreds of images that
you can use in your time lines. You can also use your own graphics in your
time lines. The Custom Art Folder, which is in the TimeLiner Clip Art folder,
is a place to store any drawings, photographs, etc. that you have created or
found on your own.
Formatting Dates
The Add Date to Text option in the Format menu allows you to set whether
or not the date appears along with each event.
The Date Format option in the Format menu allows you to set how much date
detail you want to display for events in the List, Compact, and Banner Views.
The information in the Date Format dialog box changes depending on the
type of time line you are working on: Standard, Yearly/Monthly, Weekly,
Daily, Geologic, or Custom. These differences are described in the next
few pages.
Date Format Dialog Box for Standard Time Lines
For Standard time lines, the Date Format dialog box looks like this:
Standard Date Format dialog box
The Date Format default settings for Standard time lines show the following
details: year, month, day, hour, minute, and era. The Time Format default is
based on a 12-hour clock. Although the Date Format above is set to show a
lot of detail, you are not required to enter all of those details. You can enter
as little as you want. For example, instead of entering 7:00 AM February 15,
1963, you can enter February, 1963.
When the Date Format is set to show all detail, an event with all detail
entered would look like this: 6:30 PM, Saturday, July 1, 1999 AD.
Note: In the Data View, some of the items are not optional.
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Other Date Format options are:
• Time Format: This allows you to select a 24-hour clock or the standard
12-hour clock.
• Using BCE/CE (Before Common Era/Common Era) instead of BC/AD.
• Switching the default for new events to BC.
Date Format Dialog Box for Yearly/Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Time Lines
Once the time line type has been chosen, the Date Format dialog box allows
you to set when your time line starts. You can customize the starting time
for a yearly, weekly, and daily time line. For example, if you are creating a
time line of a school year, you would want your time line to start in
September rather than January. To select September, click the pop-up menu
under “Start the Year,” and select September.
Date Format Dialog Box for Geologic Time Lines
In a Geologic time line the Date Format dialog box looks like this:
Geologic Date Format dialog box
Format for Custom Time Lines
For Custom time lines the Date Format dialog box is replaced with the
Units box. This lets you change or edit the units, such as inches or dollars,
you wish to use in your time line.
Units dialog box
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Hiding and Including
The Hide and Include features appear in the Banner, Compact, and List Views.
When you enter an event it appears in all views. If you do not want a certain event to appear in the Banner View, for instance, but you want it to
appear in the Compact View, switch to the Banner View and select the event;
choose Hide Event from the Format menu. That event is now invisible and
will not print in the Banner View. To hide multiple events at once, hold down
the z (Macintosh) or Ctrl (Windows) key and click each event you want
hidden. To hide a contiguous group of events at once, hold down the Shift
key and click the first and last event to select them. Next, choose Hide
Event from the Format menu.
Hidden events can be made visible by choosing Include Event from the
Format menu. The list of hidden events appears in the dialog box. Click the
event you would like to include; click OK. The event is now visible and will
print as part of the time line view. You can include all hidden events at once
by clicking the Include All Events button in the dialog box.
Importing and Exporting Text
TimeLiner allows you to import and export text files with ease. Using text
files, you can transfer data between TimeLiner and other programs, such as
word processors and spreadsheet programs.
Importing Text
The ability to import text files means you can enter all your time line data
in a word processor or spreadsheet and then import it into TimeLiner. When
entering dates in a word processor, each field must be separated by a tab,
and the line ended with a carriage return. The file must be saved as a Text
file type in order for TimeLiner to open it.
There are two ways to import a text file. The first way is to copy it from a
word processor or spreadsheet program and open TimeLiner. Next, choose
your time line type: Standard, Yearly/Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Geological, or
Custom. Finally, choose Paste from the Edit menu. The second way is to
choose Open from the File menu, select your text file, and then choose your
time line type.
Exporting Text
To export data as a text file from TimeLiner, choose Save As from the File
menu and choose Text File from the Format pull-down menu (Macintosh),
or Save as type from the pull-down list (Windows). If you have Macintosh
System 8.1, click the Text file button.
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Exporting as Text (Macintosh)
Exporting as Text (Windows)
When exporting a time line as text, the dates in the text file will appear as
they do in the Data View. If you plan to import the new text file into a
spreadsheet program, each line of the file must consist of tabbed fields, followed by an Enter character.
Interactive Presentations Using Media Links
TimeLiner has two ways of displaying multimedia elements. The first, the
Slideshow View, lets you present a self-running slideshow in which every
event becomes a slide.
The second way is to display your time line in the Banner, Compact, or List
Views and use the Media Link icon to display multimedia elements.
If you have attached multimedia elements such as notes, pictures, movies,
sounds, or Web links to events on your time line, a blue icon shaped like a
plus sign will appear next to these events. This is the Media Link icon.
Media Link icon
To display the multimedia elements, click the Media Link icon and hold
down the mouse button. A pop-up menu appears. Choose an element to
display, such as a movie. Release the mouse button and the movie appears
in the middle of the screen. Click anywhere else on the screen and the element
disappears. You can display your elements one at a time, or if you choose
View Slide from the pop-up menu, all the elements will appear together
as they would on a slide in the Slideshow View.
Linking to Pictures
TimeLiner allows you to add pictures to your time lines to use in interactive
presentations and slideshows. These elements can all be added by clicking
New Event and then clicking the Picture or Movie tab in the New Event
dialog box.
Picture, sounds, and movie files are often large in file size. We recommend
linking to the files rather than embedding them in your TimeLiner file.
Linking to graphics keeps your time line file size smaller. However, links
may be broken if the original image is moved to another location. Also, if
you move your time line file to another computer, you must also move any
media files that you have linked to. Otherwise the links will be broken.
To keep track of the original location of a linked image, double-click on the
image in the Picture or Movie tab in the Edit Event dialog box. The file path
name appears. If a link is broken this path name also appears.
The program preferences allow you to choose how you will link to graphics. The default setting is set to link to any graphic larger than 100 K. You
can change this to link to any graphic larger than 1 MB always link to
graphics, or never link to graphics.
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Media File Types
TimeLiner can import and display the following file formats:
Graphics: PICT, BMP, JPEG, and GIF
Sounds: MP3, AIFF, WAVE, MIDI
Movies: QUICKTIME, AVI, MPEG (Macintosh only)
Merging Time Lines
A key feature of TimeLiner is the ability to merge multiple time lines with
ease. To merge two time lines, first open one of the time lines you wish to
merge. Then click Merge on the clock. Then find your second time line and
open it. If you have not assigned categories to events in your first time line,
a message appears asking you if you want to assign a category to all events.
This will make it easier to distinguish events in the new time line, especially
if you give the category a unique color or font.
The data from these two time lines will now be merged in a new, untitled
time line which you can save. Merged time lines keep their original fonts,
sizes, colors, and styles. This allows you to create great time lines that show
relationships and comparisons between different types and sets of information.
Two or more themes can be presented in one time line using different colors
or fonts to highlight differences for easy cross-comparisons. Merged time
lines can help make historical events important to students by putting them
in meaningful contexts.
For example, students in your class can create a time line of important
events in U.S. history. Then, they can create personal family tree time lines.
With the push of a button you can merge your students’ personal time lines
together with the U.S. historical time line, instantly creating a new time line
that gives meaning to events. “Oh, during the Depression my grandmother
was in the same grade I’m in now!” Or, merge a time line of American literature and U.S. history. “So that was what was going on when Harriet
Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I wonder how those events influenced her writing. I wonder how her book influenced events in history.”
Note: Only time lines of the same type can be merged—Standard time lines
with Standard time lines, Geologic with Geologic, etc.
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Preferences
TimeLiner has different preferences, which can be turned on or off. To
change TimeLiner’s preferences, choose Preferences from the Edit menu.
This dialog box will open.
Preferences dialog box
Sounds on
Check this box to turn TimeLiner's sound effects on. Unchecking it turns the
sound effects off. Media attachments such as sounds or movies will still be
heard with the sound effects off.
Hide Desktop
Check this box to hide your computer's desktop from view. Unchecking it
allows you to view your desktop underneath the program window.
Use BCE/CE for new time lines
TimeLiner uses BC and AD as the date format. Checking this box changes
TimeLiner's preference to show BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE
(Common Era) for every new time line you create.
Use 24-hour time for new time lines
TimeLiner uses a 12-hour clock to refer to time of day. This means that it
shows AM and PM. Checking this box changes TimeLiner's preference to
show 24-hour, or Military time.
Linking Graphics
Graphics can be large in file size and can make your time line's file size very
large. Linking Graphics allows you to keep the file size of your time line
small by not combining the graphic directly with your TimeLiner file.
Instead, the graphic will be saved as a link. This means the graphic itself
will be located in its Graphics Library folder, but always appear in your
time line.
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Linked graphics will not appear in the time line if the Graphics Library is
located on another computer, or if the graphic has been removed from the
Graphics Library. Graphics that are not linked will always appear in your
time line.
There are four Linking Graphics preferences located in the drop-down box.
Linking Graphics Preferences
Always Link Graphics
This preference links every graphic, no matter how small, to keep your
TimeLiner file size as small as possible.
Link Graphics over 100 K
This preference allows smaller graphics, under 100 K in size, to be part of
your TimeLiner file. Graphics over 100 K become links.
Link Graphics over 1 MB
This preference allows any graphic under 1 megabyte to become part of
your TimeLiner file, but graphics over 1 megabyte to become links.
Never Link Graphics
This preference will not allow TimeLiner to link graphics, and therefore, all
of your graphics will be part of your time line file.
Sharing Files Between Macintosh & Windows Computers
TimeLiner files that are saved on the Macintosh can be opened on Windows
computers and vice versa. You must have the TimeLiner program on your
computer to open a TimeLiner file.
Any graphics added to a time line file from the TimeLiner Clip Art folder
will appear on the other computer if the TimeLiner Clip Art folder is present.
If other media elements such as sounds or movies have been linked to your
time line file, you must copy them to a folder on the other computer to
maintain the links. If they are in the same folder as your time line file, just
copy the whole folder to the other computer.
You can also place graphics in the same folder as the time line file. You
must do this if you linked to any graphics that are not in the TimeLiner
Clip Art folder or your Custom Art folder (see page 58).
Note: For Macintosh users, to make it easier for a Windows computer to open
a saved TimeLiner file, add .tl5 as an extension at the end of your file name.
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Fonts of events may change when you exchange files between Macintosh
and Windows computers.
Using TimeLiner with the Internet
The Internet has a wealth of information and media that is perfect for
constructing time lines. The Web sites below are great sources of names,
dates, pictures, sounds, and even movies. Web addresses sometimes
change. If you can’t get to these sites with the addresses provided, use
a search engine to search for the name of the site.
NASA
www.nasa.gov
This Web site says best what it has to offer: NASA is deeply committed to
spreading the unique knowledge that flows from its aeronautics and space
research.
On the NASA Web site, there is a vast database of images, movies, statistical
data, news, events, history, and it is all free for educational purposes. The
main address above is just the tip of the iceberg, as NASA’s site is very
large. The main page has many links to explore, and also a search link so
you can easily find what you are looking for. There is a universe of knowledge at your fingertips.
History Central
www.historycentral.com
History Central is a subscription Web site that also has many free resources.
The world’s current events are explained in historical context by using time
lines and articles. There are also many great images. This site is constantly
updated to reflect the world’s current issues, making it an excellent
resource.
Facts on File
www.factsonfile.com
Facts on File is another excellent source for pictures, sounds, and historical
and scientific information. It is a for-profit Web site, but it offers a 30-day
free trial for use of its large online databases. Facts on File also offer CDROMs and books.
American Memory Collection from The Library of Congress
memory.loc.gov
The American Memory collection consists of primary source materials
including many photographs relating to American culture and history.
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cnn.com
www.cnn.com
This is the Web site for the Cable News Network. It is a great source for
articles on current events. It is also a great source for older news stories.
The homepage has its own search engine, which will search cnn.com’s huge
database of past articles. There are years of articles available, with everything ranging from sports to foreign policy.
Canisius College
www.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.htm
Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, has a section of its Web site dedicated to
time lines. This page is called AlternaTime, and it is a great place to get
information to enter into your own time line.
National Archives and Records Administration
www.nara.gov/education/teaching/teaching.html
The Primary Sources and Activities section of this Web site offers reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National
Archives of the United States. It also offers teaching activities correlated to
the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and
Government. There are also many historical images students can use in
their time lines.
Search Beat
history.searchbeat.com
Search Beat offers searches for historical Web sites and articles, and also features time lines. It is also an excellent site for finding historical images to
incorporate into your time lines.
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Quick Reference Questions & Answers
I have printed my time line and a portion (either top or bottom) is missing.
How do I get all of my time line on the page?
The easiest way to adjust your time line is to zoom out to 25% in the View
menu and see where the time line is located on the page grid. Then select
the time scale and hold down the mouse button. You can now move the
time line anywhere on the page grid. Notice that if you drag the time scale
below the horizontal dotted line, a second row of pages is added to the
height of your time line. By raising the time scale above the horizontal
dotted line, your time line will be on one row of pages.
If your time line does not fit on one row of pages, try adjusting the height
of the flags by selecting them and moving them down, or change the page
orientation from Landscape to Portrait in the Page Setup (Macintosh) or the
Print Setup (Windows). (See also Banner Layout on page 29.) You can also
click Print and look at the Print Preview dialog box to make sure the time
line will print the way you want.
I have TimeLiner 5.0, but I have old time lines that were saved with version
4.0. Are they compatible?
Yes, open your old time lines with TimeLiner 5.0 (from the main screen
choose Open a Time Line and select a time line file). Save the file to make
it a TimeLiner 5.0 file.
I want to paste a graphic into my time line, but it is too small/big.
Can I resize the art in TimeLiner 5.0?
Yes. TimeLiner 5.0 lets you resize your graphics. After you import the graphics
into the program, click a red rectangle in the corner of the selected graphic
and drag up or down to make the graphic smaller or bigger.
Many of the flags in my Banner time line overlap. How can I adjust them
so they don’t overlap?
If flags are very close together, click Expand on the clock to make your time
line wider. If flags are still overlapping, choose Clean Up Flags from the
Format menu and the program will adjust the spacing of the flags to try
to avoid any overlapping.
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Classroom Activities
25 Ideas for Using TimeLiner Across the Curriculum ............70
Social Studies ......................................................................70
U.S. & World History .........................................................71
Science .................................................................................73
Language Arts ....................................................................74
Math .....................................................................................75
Art & Music ........................................................................76
Teacher Projects .........................................................................77
Student Projects and Worksheets ...........................................79
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25 Ideas for Using TimeLiner
Across the Curriculum
TimeLiner supports a wide range of curriculum objectives. Here are some
ideas for using the program in social studies, history, science, language arts,
math, art, and music. For more ideas, open the sample time lines that come
with the program. These files are organized by subject area. We hope our
suggestions will inspire your own creative ideas for using the program to
support your classroom objectives.
Social Studies
Time can be a fairly complicated and difficult concept for some young children to grasp. With the help of TimeLiner, you can make time a more tangible and concrete subject to facilitate student understanding. In fact, with
TimeLiner, your students can even manipulate time in a physical and visual way.
My Day
Introduce chronology in a personal and relevant manner by having students
build time lines of a day in their own lives. To help them think about the
distinct events during the day, you might give them a list of questions (or
generate one as a group) including:
• What time do you wake up?
• What time do you go to bed?
• When do you eat meals?
• When do you go to school?
• When do you go home?
Print and compare time lines. The same process can be done for a week or a
month. Use this lesson as an opportunity to talk about patterns of behavior
and similarities and differences among individuals.
My Life
You can reinforce a sense of relative chronology by having kids write a history of their lives. (They will have to get some information from their parents.) Then have students put the major events in their lives — birth, first
steps, first word, first haircut, first day in school, etc. — into a time line that
they illustrate. Finally, compare the autobiographies with the time lines. Do
they both follow the same order? Why might events in a story be presented
out of chronological order? (Alternatively, the time line could be completed
first and used as an outline for the autobiography.)
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Myself and Others
The Merge and Category features in TimeLiner, along with the ability to use
different fonts to distinguish events on a time line, make the program ideal
for doing comparisons. The suggestions below focus on helping students
understand their relationships with other people and cultures.
Myself and the Class
Help students view themselves relative to their classmates. Create and print
a time line, for instance, that shows each student’s birthday. Using the
Custom time line, you can also show relationships other than time. Using
inches as a scale, for instance, build a time line of the students’ heights.
Relative relationships will become vividly clear.
Myself in History
Use the Merge feature to integrate autobiographical time lines with broader
historical ones: time lines of recent American or local history, for example,
or of even longer stretches of world history. Where do the students fit in?
As an option, have students complete biographical time lines of their parents to merge with thematic time lines for the same years. What inventions,
for example, were being created, or what music was popular, when mom
was in high school? It’s a fun and fascinating way to gain personal and historical perspective.
A Day in the Life of...
Have students research and create time lines of a day in the life of someone
from another culture or someone in a profession, like a doctor or a plumber.
By merging their own lives with other people’s lives, students can quickly
see similarities and differences among various life styles. How does a day
in the life of a student in China or France or Kenya compare to the life of
one of your students?
U.S. & World History
TimeLiner is a useful tool to help students keep track of important events in
history. Post time lines on the walls of your classroom to help illustrate
periods that you are covering in history class. Have students include time
lines in history reports. There are many themes that can be illustrated with
time lines. Here are a few examples.
The Presidents
A simple time line of the terms of the Presidents of the United States (use
the Event Range feature to show duration in office) provides a useful reference tool and jumping-off point for a number of related projects. Merging this
time line with others on war or the economy or social justice will emphasize
the roles of various national leaders in shaping the course of the nation.
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Big Events
Take a big event, like the American Revolution, the Civil War, or the
Depression, and create a time line of its history. These time lines are very
helpful for addressing cause and effect relationships, as well as different
interpretations of those specific relationships.
Biographies
As part of a research project, students can build time lines of famous people
they are studying. Such a time line could provide an outline for a written
biography or an oral presentation.
Encourage students to describe the relationships among the events on the
time line. How did early events in someone’s life, for instance, affect their
later accomplishments?
Merging Major Themes
Have students pick a recurring theme and trace it through U.S. history.
Some possibilities are: war, foreign policy, immigration, the economy, popular culture (e.g., music, literature, sports, etc.), technological innovation,
social justice, political power, and popular beliefs. Or focus on a particular
group’s contributions to history, such as African-Americans, Asians,
women, or Hispanics. These time lines make wonderful reference tools in
your classroom.
Many of the time lines described above can be merged together in interesting and enlightening ways. Take specific events and merge them with thematic time lines to gain a larger perspective. Merge daily life time lines to
see how changing times and situations affect how people live. Refer to the
thematic time lines to analyze the causes of these changes.
Here & There
Often, when studying one civilization or nation, like ancient Egypt or modern France, students tend to ignore or forget the rest of the world. This isolation then causes confusion when outside cultures are examined for their
influence on the nation under study. For example, how well do students
keep track of the Hyksos invasion of ancient Egypt or the Egyptians’ battles
with the Greeks? Create time lines of concurrent developments in different
parts of the world and use them as reference devices. This will aid not just
your students, but you as well.
The Future
Project world history 10 million years into the future. Have your students
make some predictions about the look of the world in the coming decade,
century, or millennium. Refer them to the work of futurists and science fiction writers for insight.
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Science
As a time-keeping device and as a measuring tool, TimeLiner has a huge
number of applications across the disciplines of science. Here are some that
are appropriate for elementary and middle school science.
From Seed to Plant
Have students use TimeLiner to track the growth of some seeds they plant
during the year. When are they watered? When do they take sprout? On
what day do they bloom?
Hot & Cold
By making a Custom time line and choosing °F or °C as the unit of measurement, you can use TimeLiner as an easily editable temperature chart.
With your students, decide what standard settings you want on the temperature line. Then, as you encounter other readings or carry out experiments,
enter values for some quick relative analysis.
Big & Small
Using weights or lengths, set up a standard size line for comparing animals,
planets, elements, or just about anything. How, for example, does the size
of a human compare to the size of a whale or an elephant? Or how much
bigger is Jupiter than Earth? A dinosaur size line might be a popular way to
start with such a project.
Birth
Use TimeLiner to illustrate the period from conception to birth in a number
of different animals. Compare gestation periods, mating habits, and animal
physiology. This activity can be focused appropriately for use in health and
sex education.
What We Eat
Set up TimeLiner to chart calories, sodium, cholesterol, or fat. Then use the
program to compare the relative healthfulness of different foods. How does
the fat content in cheese compare to that in peanut butter? Which foods
rank the highest in sodium content? Which have high cholesterol?
The Space Race
A good way for students to understand comparative history is to use the
Merge feature of TimeLiner. Begin with a brief summary of the Cold War
competition between the former Soviet Union and the United States. Give
students a list of “firsts” in space such as the first satellite, first animal in
space, first man in space, first orbiting of Earth, first woman in space, and
first man on the moon. Have students find the country that achieved each
goal and the dates on which they occurred. Have students make two separate time lines, one for the former Soviet Union and one for the United
States. When their time lines are complete have them merge their time lines,
and they will see a clearer picture of the space race.
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Distance of Planets from the Sun
Create a Custom time line with miles as the unit of measurement. Set the
value of the sun to be zero. Enter the distances of all the planets from the
sun. For example, Earth is 93 million miles away. When your time line is
finished, print it as a banner of about 10 pages long. Students should now
see the comparison of the distances better than they can see it from a textbook which is limited to one page.
Geological History
Illustrate the chronology of the geological eras and the characteristics of
each one. This handy reference makes a nice display or student handout.
It also provides a foundation for placing specific events in the larger context
of Earth’s history.
The Earth Erupts
Have students create a time line that shows earthquakes and volcanoes that
have been recorded over the last century or an even larger span of time. In
addition, students might trace the events of a particular earthquake or volcanic eruption. When were the forces set in motion? When did the event
occur? How long did it last? When was it recorded? etc.
Language Arts
Successful reading and writing both require good organizational skills.
Writers need discipline and structure. Readers need the ability to follow
and analyze events. TimeLiner can help in both these areas.
Writing Plan
Have students create schedules for a writing project. Have them allocate
time for research, note-taking, outlining, rough draft, editing, and writing
final copy. Include due dates and personal milestones.
Plot Organization
Students, particularly young ones, often have difficulty following the plots
of the stories or books they are reading. Use TimeLiner as an ongoing organizational tool. After each chapter, students can update their time lines with
new events. Out-of-chronology happenings, like flashbacks, can easily be
added in the appropriate space. In the end, the class has a useful reference
tool for discussion and review.
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Group Writing
Here’s a nifty shared writing idea. Have all the members of the class contribute to a plot chronology of a fictional story that you create together.
Have one student get things started, or get them going yourself by establishing the place, time, and main character. “It’s a fairy tale and you’re a
dragonslayer.” “You are a young girl in the antebellum South.” “You’re an
astronaut on a spaceship to Jupiter.” Each student can then add an event to
the story’s time line. The time line is then printed and becomes an outline
for individual stories written by the members of the class. Given the same
events, it’s interesting to see how differently the stories turn out.
Math
TimeLiner can also serve as a tool to create number lines. For any math concept
that can be illustrated with a number line, TimeLiner can help. It can even
display negative numbers. The Compact View in TimeLiner is also an easy
way to construct bar graphs. If you use the Event Range option you can
enter 0 as the start date and 100 as the end date to show a bar that illustrates
the value of 100. This can be used for many topics that illustrate relative values.
The Power of Exponents
TimeLiner can help illustrate the idea of exponential values. For example,
pick a number such as 3. On your time line enter in powers of 3: 3, 9, 27, 81,
2
3
and so on. Describe these entries in the What box as 3 , 3 , and so on. Print
your time line in the Banner View. Students will get a visual picture of the
concept of exponential growth.
Prime Numbers
Students are often fascinated by patterns in numbers. It’s one thing to memorize the prime numbers, it’s another to see them on a number line. One of
the sample time lines that comes with TimeLiner shows prime numbers between 1 and 100. Print it as a Banner time line about eight pages long.
Comparing Budgets
Here’s an opportunity for a cross-curricular activity. Open the sample time
line file: U.S. Budget. This shows the U.S. federal budget displayed as a bar
graph in the Compact View. Have students use this graph to calculate what
the total budget is. Then have them decide how they think the total should
be divided. For example, maybe they think more should be spent on education and less on defense. Ask students to enter their own budget numbers
and add them to the same time line. Suggest that they assign a new
Category to their entries so they can easily compare them to the original
budget. Encourage them to explain their choices.
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Art & Music
Artistic Developments
Have students research and create, and illustrate a time line of major
developments in music or art. Inventions, like guitars and microphones
or ball-point pens and computer graphics, can be shown. Students display
stylistic developments, such as jazz or chiaroscuro.
Art & Music Merge
Take the time lines you have created and merge together to compare developments in the broader artistic world. Was there an artistic style that accompanied the jazz era? What music was popular during the Renaissance? Do
you see a relationship between art and music?
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Teacher Projects
In addition to using TimeLiner as a tool to help illustrate ideas across the
curriculum, you can also use it as an organizational tool to make your planning easier, decorate your classroom, and communicate with students and
parents. Here are a few possibilities.
Student Birthdays
Make everyone in your class feel special. At the beginning of the year make
a Yearly/Monthly time line of every student’s birthday. Ask for photographs
from each student, then scan them and paste them into your time line. Post
the time line on the wall, and you and your students will have a visual
reminder of when those special days are. The photos are also a great way to
learn student names quickly. Put your birthday on it too. Who knows? You
might get an apple.
A Time Line of Your Life
Some educators say the most important thing to do as a teacher is to have
close relationships with your students. If you develop a good relationship,
it makes it easier to teach. One way to build that relationship is to let them
know about your life. You don’t have to tell them everything but giving
them some personal history helps make a connection. Choose some key
events in your life and put them on your time line. Your students will come
to know you in a new way.
Class Schedule
Help you and your students get organized. Make a time line of the upcoming semester. Indicate what topics you will be covering. List the dates of
tests, papers, projects, field trips, and holidays. Print it in the Banner View to
put on the classroom wall. Print as a one-page Compact View time line and
send to parents to help keep them aware of what is happening at school.
Tests & Worksheets
Standard curricular objectives, particularly in social studies, include student
ability to interpret time lines and charts. With TimeLiner you can incorporate
time lines of your own design into exercises for your class. Create a Banner
time line with a series of events on a topic such as the American Revolution.
Don’t enter the events but rather label them as # 1, #2, and so on. On a separate sheet of paper type a list of the events in random order. Challenge students to put the events on your time line in the correct chronological order.
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Open House Slideshow
Use TimeLiner’s Slideshow feature to display student time lines on Open
House night. The Slideshow View shows off multimedia such as sound, pictures, and movies that students can attach to time lines. Choose some exemplary time lines and set them up to auto-advance and loop so they can be
self-running. This is a great way for parents to see samples of student work.
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Name
Date
Chronological Order
Putting things in chronological order simply means putting them in the order in which they
happen. For example, March comes after February, and February comes after January, so the
chronological order of those three months is January, February, March. Rewrite the months
and days of the year in chronological order in the columns on the right.
June
October
April
August
February
November
July
January
May
September
December
March
December 19
April 7
October 3
March 16
February 2
August 25
April 22
January 25
May 9
September 17
June 17
May 14
July 4
November 10
January
• Buys guitar – August 10
• Gets a job – February 1
• Benefit concert for
homeless – October 15
• Martina sees guitar –
January 1
• Has enough money –
August 1
• Awarded employee of
the month – April 15
Here are the
events & dates!
• _______________________
• _______________________
• _______________________
• _______________________
• _______________________
Mark each dot, in order,
with a month of the year.
(We’ve marked January 1
for you.)
Step 3.
Since this is a year-long time
line, make a dot on the line
for each of the 12 months.
Make sure they are evenly
spaced. (We’ve marked the
first two for you!)
Rewrite the events and
dates in chronological order.
• _______________________
Step 2.
Step 1.
Go over all of your events
in ink or colored marker
when you think you’ve
got it right. Decorate your
new time line with colored
markers or crayons. Step
back and enjoy your new
time line!
Step 5.
Draw a flag for each event
on the line where you think
it belongs.
Step 4.
Do-It-Yourself Year-Long Time Line
Name
Date
Date
Name
My Family Chart
If you need help completing this chart, photocopy this page and mail it to relatives. This chart will
show you your immediate ancestors. Enter the information that you collect, and then create your own
family time line using TimeLiner. Enter dates and events in any order. TimeLiner will put everything
in chronological order. For a more complete time line, add brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins,
pets, and more. To keep track of different branches of the family, try using the Category feature.
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
YOU
PARENTS
GRANDPARENTS
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
GREAT GRANDPARENTS
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Name:
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Name:
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Name:
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Name:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Name
Date
My Town/City History Data Log
Please include information about politics, growth, economics, arts, immigration, architecture, etc.
Use this information to create a time line of your own town/city history. Some categories will
require additional paper to record information. When using TimeLiner, try using the Add Category
feature to distinguish the events on the time line. Add photographs to illustrate your time line.
When
What (describe what happened)
The Beginning (when was it settled?, first inhabitants, etc.)
Politics (history of elected officials - what party did they belong to?)
Economic Growth (famous businesses and stores, population history, income history, etc.)
Architecture (first structure built, when were famous buildings built and destroyed?)
Disasters (fires, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, etc.)
Memorable Moments (famous visitors, sports victories, crimes, celebrations, etc.)
Learning About a Week:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Objective: To use literature to teach the concept of a weekly calendar of events.
you begin, create and print three time lines representing the three weeks in the story, using
1 Before
the events and sequencing listed below. Week 1 is already done for you and can be found in the
Language Arts folder in the Sample Time Lines that come with the program.
Tip: When using TimeLiner choose Weekly as the time line type.
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar1 to the class.
2
the time lines, recall and discuss the events of the story with your students. Generate a
3 Using
discussion with your students about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Why do you think the caterpillar
was so hungry? How does the caterpillar’s diet compare with your own diets? What do you think the
caterpillar was doing during the weeks he spent in the cocoon?
each student an event from Week 1 to illustrate. (More than one student will be needed to
4 Assign
illustrate what the caterpillar ate on Saturday!) Use students’ illustrations to decorate the time line.
class discussion, have your students compare the time lines. What week-to-week obser5 Through
vations can they make? (You might want to record observations on the chalkboard or chart paper.)
Story Events and Sequencing
To create a time line for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, choose Weekly as your time line type and enter
the events listed below. Week 1 is already done for you and can be found in the Language Arts folder in the Sample Time Lines that come with the program.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Week 2
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Week 3
Sequence
Event
Sequence
Event
(enter in days)
(What the caterpillar ate)
(enter in days)
(What the caterpillar ate)
Sunday
Ate a nice green leaf
Built a cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Stayed in cocoon
Pushed his way out
He was a beautiful butterfly
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1 Carle, Eric. Philomel Books, New York, 1983
Index
24-hour Time, 63
Exporting as a Graphic, 32, 46
Add Menu, 49
Exporting Text, 60
Adding Date to Text, 26, 49
Features & Functions, 45–67
Adding Events, 5, 14
File Menu, 46
Advanced Features, 56–64
Flag Size, 25
Banner View, 13–32
Flag Style, 25
Bar Style, 33
The Five Views, 6, 12
Categories, 18, 39, 48, 49, 56–57
Font, 6, 23, 26, 34, 37, 48
Classroom Activities, 70–78
Format Menu, 49
Clean Up Flags, 50
Full, Half, & Quarter-size Views, 48
Clock Tools, 14
Geologic Time Lines, 9, 43
Colors, 6, 23, 34, 37
Getting Started, 1–9
Compact View, 32–35
Graphics, 7, 28, 49
Compressing Time Lines, 6, 23, 50
Help Menu, 50
Creating Time Lines, 3, 5, 42
Hide Desktop, 63
Custom Art Folder, 58
Hiding an Event, 17, 50, 60
Custom Time Lines, 9, 43
Importing Pictures and Movies, 19, 20
Customizing Event Font, Color, & Style,
6, 23, 34, 37
Importing Sounds, 21
Customizing Groups of Events, 24
Customizing the Time Scale, 27
Daily Time Lines, 9, 43
Data View, 37–39
Date Format, 14, 28, 50, 58–59
Dates with Ranges, 16, 49
Deleting an Event, 6, 16, 47
Edit Menu, 47
Editing an Event, 6, 16, 39, 47
Entering Dates, 14–16
Español, 49
Expanding Time Lines, 6, 23, 50
84
Importing Text, 60
Including an Event, 17, 50, 60
Installing TimeLiner, 5
Interactive Presentations, 61
Labels, 7, 25, 49
Landscape Orientation, 29, 47
Linking to Graphics, 61, 64
List View, 35–37
Making a Legend, 53
Media Attachments, 8, 18–22, 61
Menu Options, 46
Menu Shortcuts, 51
Index
Merging Time Lines, 3, 8, 46, 56, 62
Symbols, 36
Movies, 20
System Requirements, 2
Moving Between Data View Columns, 39
Template Files, 53
National Standards, 4
Time Scale, 27, 53
New Time Line, 11, 46
TimeLiner Web site, 44
Notes, 19
Undo, 47
Number of Pages, 23
Units, 49, 59
Opening Saved Time Lines, 11, 46
Up-to-Date Dates, 16
Page Setup, 8, 29–31, 47
Use Event Range, 49
Pictures, 19
Using TimeLiner with the Internet, 65
Portrait Orientation, 29, 47
View Menu, 48
Posters, 34
Views (See The Five Views)
Preferences, 48, 61, 63–64
Walkthrough, 11–44
Presenting Your Slideshow, 41, 55
Web Links, 22
Print Preview, 29
Weekly Time Lines, 9, 43
Print Setup, 29–31
What Column, 38
Printing, 3, 8, 29–31, 41, 46
When Column, 38
Saving Time Lines, 46
Window Menu, 50
Select All Events, 47
Yearly/Monthly Time Lines, 9, 43
Selecting Multiple Events, 52
Zooming In & Out, 13, 48
Sharing Time Lines Across Platforms, 64
Shortcuts, 51
Slideshow Setup, 40
Slideshow View, 39, 41
Snapshots, 32
Sound Effects, 63
Sounds, 21
Standard Time Lines, 5, 9, 43
State Standards, 4
Stationery Files, 53
85
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