Tag: Time Mapper
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Timeglider and Timemapper: The Benefits and Differences
When learning history and trying to understand it, it tends to not make sense when dates are scrambled and out of order. The story that it tells becomes distorted between what is happening and what has already happened. Although different in several ways, Timemapper and Timeglider are similar in the fact that they put events…
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Time Visualization: Time Mapper and Time Glider
Time visualizaion is basically a way to chronologize history events. According to Grafton, people started to do these kinds of things from 500 A.D. (or earlier). This week, I experienced two ways to do time visualization, Time mapper and Time glider. Grafton introduces that the earilist way to do time visulization is to build a chart,…
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TimeGlider vs. TimeMapper: Battle to the Death
There are many different options for where to put a list of chronological events. It makes more sense to use a time line than anything else. TimeGlider works unbelievably well when there are many dates and times to include per post. With TimeGlider, one can edit the posts to highlight themes to differentiate them from…