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__ What is Tiki-Toki? __

Tiki-Toki is a web-based timeline creation tool which allows users to build easy-to-navigate and visually appealing timelines. It is multi-media friendly, allowing users to embed photographs, videos, text, and links to additional information. Media can be uploaded from a user's computer or taken directly from URLs, as Tiki-Toki seamlessly integrates content from Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo. All user content is stored remotely by Tiki-Toki and the program is wholly web-based; there is no need to download a program or upload finished products. It is a freemium service: users are permitted one free timeline and have access to most features, but to create multiple timelines or to have the access to premium services such as embedding timelines on other websites, there is a fee.

__Educational Use __

Tiki-Toki is essentially a presentation tool, and can be used for just about anything imaginable. Students can create timeline book reports to summarize a story and offer insights in a chronology. They could also create a life cycle timeline for Biology class, complete with photographs of maturation or videos of plant and animal behavior. The chronological nature of the tool lends itself very well to journaling. And of course, students in history class could probably find a way to use Tiki Toki, too. A little teacher and student creativity is all that is needed to find an educational purpose for the tool.

__What Kinds of Tiki-Toki Accounts are Available?__

//Free Account// Create one timeline of any length

//Bronze Account// $5 per month Create up to five timelines Group editing capability Embed timelines on other websites--up to 5,000 embedded views per month No advertisements

//Teacher Account// $100 per year Includes 50 Bronze Accounts for students <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Including all Bronze Account features above <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//*While a teacher may not need 250 total timelines for his or her students, perhaps five teachers would like to go in together at $20 apiece and each have the ability to let their students create 50 timelines. The group editing capability with this account can stretch the numbers of students working within Tiki-Toki even further.//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Silver Account// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$20 per month <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Designed for small businesses and professional bloggers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create up to 25 timelines <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Embed timelines on other websites--up to 20,000 embedded views per month <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Includes all Bronze Account features above

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">A Tiki-Toki Activity __

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Got a minute and a half? Check out this quick video rundown of Tiki-Toki's basic features and use. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="EdZUUVMSNJ8" height="315" width="560"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Review the examples below and think of a project! Biographical timelines, book reports, educational diaries, or anything else that can benefit from Tiki-Toki's features. Consider the multimedia content that you may wish to use for your project ideas: will it be easy to find and relevant? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Go to www.tiki-toki.com and create a free account by clicking "Free Sign Up" in the upper right portion of the page. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Once you sign up and sign in, you are taken directly to the start page for creating your first timeline. Begin by answering these questions about your timeline--start and end dates, title, background image (if you're already prepared), et cetera--then click "Create New Timeline" at the bottom right, and Tiki-Toki will set you up to fill it out. For your first timeline, Tiki-Toki uses pop-up help menus and explanations as a sort of on-the-fly tutorial. It is quite intuitive. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Have fun telling whatever story you've chosen!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__Tiki-Toki Examples__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Biography of Roald Dahl] A sixth grader's product from her class' Author Study unit. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//[|My Side of the Mountain]// A fifth grade class' collaborative timeline of a novel they read, embedded in their class webpage. Embedding and group editing are premium features. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Marvel Universe] A student's contribution to his passion: a timeline history of his favorite characters from Marvel Comics. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Worlds of Modern Poetry] A massive collaborative timeline by College of Charleston students including social and political contexts from the Paris Exposition through the Vietnam war. This is a fine example of the group editing feature. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|History of Textbooks] A college student's history of textbooks from ancient texts to digital downloads. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Amaranth] A student's timeline of a story, showcasing Tiki Toki's ability to band different threads of narrative within one timeline. This student isn't quite finished, but it's a fine example of this feature.