Online Teaching and Learning Resource Guide For Faculty

Timeline is an open-source, web-based tool created by Knightlab at Northwestern University. The Timeline tool allows you to organize, contextualize, and present information into a multimedia timeline. Users can upload photographs, videos, digitized print material, or artwork. Use this as a way to dynamically present historical information, or have your students create a timeline as an assignment. Timeline is an open-source tool that allows you to upload and use original material, or pull media from a variety of sources, including: Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, Document Cloud and more.

ThingLink is a tool for embedding interactive, multimedia content in images, videos, and 360 media. The media-embedding process involves uploading an image or video and linking it to other resources on the web. Links can lead users to informational web pages, audio recordings, and videos. Thinglink guides users most of the way with simple prompts, and a search content option helps support the embedding process with links to commonly used web resources.

SceneVR is an open-source, web-based tool created by Knightlabs at Northwestern University. SceneVR transforms your panoramic or VR-ready picture library into a gallery of navigable images, allowing you to construct immersive stories online. Once your images are uploaded, you can put them in the desired order and add descriptive text to create a narrative. These stories can be inserted into presentations, or hosted on a variety of web platforms.