Week 6 - Technology Tools

Capzles is a web tool that can be used to make a timeline of events or used for telling a story. It is done in a linear fashion and you can add photos, video and audio files to your Capzle. Prior to this class I had not used or heard of this web tool. After I viewed the tutorial video it seemed fairly easy to use. It guides you step by step. My only issue was doing the resource list area as I had to upload the file as an image. I tried to upload a PDF but it would not show. My post impression was that it was easy to use. It has a variety of premade backgrounds that you can use along with different themes and fonts. Personally I will not use it but it would be a great tool for students in a classroom to use. This tool can be compared to the Tiki-Toki web tool we are also currently using. http://www.capzles.com/

Tiki-Toki is a web tool that similar to Capzles that allows you to do a timeline of events. I had not used Tiki-Toki prior to this class and at this point I really dislike this tool. To be fair it may be because it took me a long time to figure it out. It does not let you upload pictures and the flickr area is down. I finally figured out that I could load my images onto UT’s orange server and then link the url from there. The specific date entry made it difficult as well and like Capzles I had a difficult time uploading my resource list. It also only allows you to create one timeline with the free version. To be honest personally I will never use this tool and professionally I won’t be recommending it to use in a classroom. You can compare it to Capzles. http://www.tiki-toki.com/