What is Timeline

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A depiction of time along the x-axis (may be linear or recursive or circular time). Learn more in: Optimizing Static and Dynamic Visual Expressions of Time-Based Events, Processes, Procedures, and Future Projections for Instructional Design

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A 2D or 3D linear or comparative graphical representation of time and its passage. Learn more in: Mini-Robots as Smart Gadgets: Promoting Active Learning of Key K-12 Social Science Skills

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Structure containing events chronologically ordered. A timeline allows investigators to have a global overview of the case and to know for example which machines was used, which applications were launched or which files have been modified at a given time. Learn more in: Event Reconstruction: A State of the Art

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A feature of video editing and screencast products which displays one or more media tracks across time. Learn more in: Professional Development Course for Online Teaching and the Production and Use of Instructor-Produced Video

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A visual feature in the VPF tool, Vosaic , that shows stacked rows of timestamped, user-specified video clips. Learn more in: Using Video-Enhanced Performance Feedback for Student and Instructor Reflection and Evaluation

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A way to display visually a list of events in chronological order. Its visualization usually uses a long bar delimited by key dates, within a time period. Specific dates are marked out at regular intervals, and events are positioned on certain points, where they would have happened. Learn more in: “All the World's a Stage” and Sociologists Its Storytellers: Contemporary Sociology and the Art of Telling a Good Story