TikiToki

TikiToki is a web app for creating interactive and attractive digital timelines. Each event on the timeline can include images, videos, notes and links to websites for further reading. The app is integrated with Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo so it is easy to add content from those sources, and when you finish you can share your creation with a unique link.

TikiToki’s design features allow you to colour-code events and insert an attractive background image on your timeline. The results are colourful, interesting and often stunning. Go here and here to see examples of how people are using Tiki Toki.

TikiToki would be a wonderful tool to use in the classroom or library. Students could create personal timelines about their own lives and their ancestors. They could also chart individual learning journeys, inserting images and videos of work, and enter text to reflect on what they learned. Charting the plot of a book, an important historical event or the lifestyle of a frog are examples of how students could use TikiToki to engage with the curriculum in any subject area.

Planning an event in the library? Use TikiToki to record your progress as you get ready for your next book week or read-a-thon and share the link with parents in an email or electronic newsletter. It’s also a great presentation tool to hook students when introducing new topics!

A Basic account, which allows you to create one timeline, is free. An Education account costs 100 USD a year, but includes one teacher and fifty student accounts and the option of embedding your timelines into your own site. This would be a useful feature if you have a school website or a library/class wiki or blog. Check out the TikiToki website for other account options.

How could you use TikiToki? What are some other good digital timeline tools?

By Carrie