Dominika Majewska: [00:00:02] Hello and welcome.
[00:00:04] This video will present timelines showing the journey that maths education in England and the USA has gone through over time.
[00:00:11] In this video we will explain what the timelines are and how to use them.
[00:00:15] We conduct work where we compare various aspects of education such as countries, curricular assessment systems and different ways of teaching.
[00:00:22] We thought it would be interesting to present events and various changes that have occurred in maths education visually as it makes comparisons easier.
[00:00:31] We created the timelines on a website called TikiToki which has great functionality that we will introduce in this video.
[00:00:38] We would like to thank Jackie White who has helped us put the timelines together.
[00:00:42] Now I'm going to hand over to Nicky, who will talk about how the timelines work and what you
can do with them.
Nicky Rushton: [00:00:50] When you first see the timeline, it's in the standard view and starts at the earliest event.
[00:00:54] The blue and purple dots at the bottom of the screen show you the years when events happen.
[00:00:59] When you click on a year, you'll be taken to the events that happened.
[00:01:02] Then you can change the timeline's appearance.
[00:01:07] When you click on the spanner icon on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, it will open various functionality options.
[00:01:14] The Search tab allows you to search for specific keywords or dates.
[00:01:22] This will highlight events with the word or the date that you searched for.
[00:01:30] The Categories tab allows you to filter by category, in this case by country.
[00:01:35] So if you click on England, for instance, it will show you only the events that have occurred in England.
[00:01:44] The View Type may be one of the most useful ones for direct comparisons between the two countries, as it presents the timelines in different ways.
[00:01:52] The Category Bands option splits the events into separate timelines, with England's timelines of events at the top and the USA shown below.
[00:02:01] This makes it easier to see what happened in both countries during specific times.
[00:02:07] The Coloured Stories tab makes events that happened in England in one colour, purple, and those that occurred in the USA a different colour, blue.
[00:02:17] The Duration tab allows you to see how long events lasted.
[00:02:21] As most of the events included here do not include their duration, only the year in which they happened, this view is not particularly useful.
[00:02:30] The Spacing tab allows you to change the way that events are presented in rows.
[00:02:34] For instance, by clicking on top to bottom three rows, the events are now shown in three separate rows.
[00:02:41] Clicking on five rows shows the events in five separate rows.
[00:02:46] Please note that in some of the view types, there's a limit on the number of views lines that they can show.
[00:02:56] Finally, in the Tools box we have the Zoom tab.
[00:03:01] This allows you to zoom in or out on events.
[00:03:04] Zooming out either using the minus button or by clicking on the bars on the left hand side of the screen allows you to see more events on the page.
[00:03:12] While zooming in using either the plus button or by clicking on the bars on the right hand side of the screen shows fewer events, but you can see more details for each event.
[00:03:23] Now I'm going to hand over to Dominika, who's going to talk to you about the event boxes themselves.
Dominika Majewska: [00:03:33] An events box contains the title or what the event is probably about, and depending on the chosen view type and spacing, they also show the year that the event happened in, which country it applies to, and some information about this event.
[00:03:48] When you click on the arrow button, it will display all information about that event.
[00:03:55] When you click on an event, you can also move to the previous event or to the next event by using the small arrows at the bottom of the events box.
[00:04:08] You will also notice that events have icons.
[00:04:14] These icons correspond to the theme of the event.
[00:04:17] Each icon's background is different to make recognition of the theme easier.
[00:04:22] For instance, the theme Assessments and Tests is represented by a scroll with one star on a green background, like this one here.
[00:04:30] There are seven themes that events can belong to.
[00:04:36] Assessments and Tests which I have just demonstrated, Bodies, organisations, councils,
projects and strategies represented by an icon on a yellow background like this one here.
[00:04:48] We also have general events, initiatives and movements represented by a dark turquoise background such as the one here.
[00:05:04] We have major reports, reviews, white papers and acts shown by a light pink icon like this one here.
[00:05:13] In addition to this we have mathematics specific movements which are shown on a dark blue icon like this one here.
[00:05:32] State specific information which is for USA events only is shown on a red icon like this one here.
[00:05:42] And we also have curriculum which is shown by pictures representing various subjects compiled together on a blue background like this one here.
[00:06:02] To filter by the theme you are interested in, click on an event with that theme and then click on the theme it has been tagged with, which is just below the year here.
[00:06:17] This will bring up the search tab in the bottom right hand corner with the theme entered in the text box as you can see.
[00:06:22] On the timeline, it will highlight the other events that have been tagged with the same theme and grey out any other events that do not belong to that theme.
[00:06:40] Thanks for watching.
[00:06:41] We hope this demonstration has shown you how to use the timelines and that they will be useful for you whether you are conducting research, teaching or are simply interested in maths education.
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