This blogpost, is written for spreading awareness of free educational resources, which facilitates conceptual & experiential learning.
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| Memories - Collage & Timelines.... |
One of the feature of Facebook, Google Photos, I like the most is auto-generated collage & timeline of our photos (good old memories & time gone by). Watching the timeline unfolding in front of our eyes, is like walking down the memory lanes & reliving those beautiful moments all over again.
This feel good factor, underlines the basis of human perception & information processing. We perceive & process far better, when information is presented in the form of visuals/images, rather than text/data.
Just imagine, how enriching a student's experience would be if they could visually perceive Big History Timeline, rather than reading it as text & dates!
Big History is a unified, multi-disciplinary approach of trying to understand the History of Cosmos, Earth, Life & Humanity. The timescale of Big History is an unfathomable 14 billion years (Big Bang to today's modern times). It's next to impossible, to gain a holistic understanding, unless a student is able to perceive the big history timescale, in the form of interactive visuals/images.
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| ChronoZoom |
Is it possible to view big history in an interactive visual form?
Yes!
How?
By using ChronoZoom!
What is ChronoZoom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jvJD8Qv5ec
ChronoZoom is a zoomable timeline of Big History. With ChronoZoom, a student can browse knowledge & interact with the time scale (zoom in zoom out). It makes the relation between time & events clear, vivid & easy to comprehend.
Is ChronoZoom, free?
Yes!
Where can I access ChronoZoom?
http://www.chronozoom.com/#/t00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
What are the benefits of ChronoZoom?
- Helps in visualising big history
- Interactive timescale (zoom in, zoom out)
- This technology, makes comprehension of 14 billion years possible
- Facilitates conceptual & experiential learning
- Makes learning fun
Requesting you, to spread the word around by sharing this blogpost. Through your thoughtful gesture of spreading awareness on ChronoZoom, many students would benefit in their conceptual & experiential learning. Thank You!
Quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteIts an interesting representation..
ReplyDeleteInformative & concisely put! Thanks Abhishek
ReplyDeleteVery informative thanks Abhi
ReplyDeleteI found your treatise quite interesting. I have only one question, what if the time started much earlier than The Big Bang or may be it has no start? It's just that we are trying to quantify the unquantifiable?
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept
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