NDLA Timeline 'papi Jo' Documentation EN

Step 2: Creating a timeline

Select the New content option and choose NDLA Timeline Papi Jo from the list of Content types.

Step 3: Timeline Editor

The Timeline editor should now appear. It consists of 8 parts:

Title, Title slide, Timeline items, Tags, Eras, Behavioral settings and Language

Step 4: Title

Enter a title in the Title field, as for any other H5P content, e.g. NDLA Timeline Papi Jo My own content

Step 5: Title slide

You can optionally create a Title slide, containing a title, a description text and a Media of your choice. You can also display a background for that Title slide, consisting either of a colour or an image. Click on the Show title slide check box and enter this data:

• Title: My Own History of Strawberries
• Text: by myself. You can take advantage of the rich text editor e.g. Font Name Comic Sans; Size: 150%
• Layout: leave Text on right (standard)
• Media type: None
• Appearance
  • Background: image
  • Background image: Add Navigate to where you saved the Green-fingered strawberry image on your computer and use it.

You should now see this:

Step 6: Timeline items

Item #1 Enter this data:

• Title: Origins
• Start date: -234 (use the minus sign for a negative date!)
• End date: -234
• Description type: Text
• Text: The history of Strawberries goes back over 2,200 years. The growth of wild strawberries in Italy can be traced back to 234 BC.
• This slide demonstrates the use of an image from an external source (format this block with a light yellow colour background)
• Layout: Text on right (standard)
• Media type: External link
• External link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Pomological_Watercolor_POM00004368.jpg
• Information
  • Credit: Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Caption: Image of the 'Parker Earle' variety of strawberries
• Tags: Not used
• Appearance: Not used

You should now see something like this:

Click ADD TIMELINE ITEM and add the following data for the following items:

Item #2 

• Title: Early mentions of Strawberries
• Start date: 0023
• End date: 0079
• Description type: Text
• Text: This slide displays an automatically created extract from a Wikipedia article with a clickable link to the article itself.(format this block with a light yellow colour background)
• Layout: Text on right (standard)
• Media type: External link
• External link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry#History
• Information
  • Credit: Wikipedia
• Tags: Not used
• Appearance: Not used

Item #3

• Title: Marilyn Monroe
• Start date: 1926-6-1
• End date: 1962-8-4
• Description type: Text
• Text: This slide demonstrates a quote with a reference.
• Media type: Quote
• Text: <blockquote>Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake. First the taste, then the pleasure.<cite>Marilyn Monroe</cite></blockquote>
• Information
  • Credit: Wikipedia

Item #4

• Title: Strawberry fields forever
• Start date: 1967-2-13
• Description type: Text
• Text: This slide demonstrates the inclusion of an audio file from an external link.
• Media type: External link
• External link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/d/dc/Strawberry_Fields_Forever_%28Beatles_song_-_sample%29.ogg/Strawberry_Fields_Forever_%28Beatles_song_-_sample%29.ogg.mp3?download
• Information
  • Credit: Wikipedia
  • Caption: Songwriters: Lennon/McCartney

Item #5

• Title: The extraordinary life and times of strawberry
• Start date: 2000
• Description type: Text
• Text: Follow the journey of a strawberry from the farm to the refrigerator to understand all that it takes to bring your food to you. Did you know that 40% of our food ends up wasted? Wasted food is the single largest contributor to landfills in the US—not to mention that it wastes water, labor, fuel, money, & love!

• Media type: External link
• External link: https://youtu.be/uTaFYF1nA4c?feature=shared
• Information
  • Credit: Wikipedia
  • Caption: Songwriters: Lennon/McCartney

Item #6

• Title: The extraordinary life and times of strawberry
• Start date: 2023
• Description type: Text
• Text: This slide demonstrates the use of an image uploaded from a local repository. And also the use of a colour (grey) background for the whole slide.
• Layout: Text on left
• Media type: Image
• Add the Half a strawberry image that you have previously saved to your computer.
• Alternative text: Half a strawberry is better than none
• Information
  • Credit: Photograph by Joseph Rézeau
  • Caption: Half a strawberry is better than none

Step 7: Tags

The tags provided in the Timeline project are not terribly useful. We won't use them here.

Step 8: Eras

Click Add Era and add the following data:

• Name: Before Present
• Start date: -2000
• End date: 0

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• Name: 19th century
• Start date: 1800
• End date: 1900

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• Name: 20th century
• Start date: 1900
• End date: 2000

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• Name: 21st century
• Start date: 2000
• End date: 2100

Step 9: Behavioral settings & Language

Leave all the settings at their initial default values. You may experiment with them later on.

Step 10: Save and view the result...