Tiki-Toki is a paid website that does a reasonable job enabling students and adults to create timelines in a relatively straight-forward way. Students can register and create one timeline for free before paying to use the site. Visual timelines can be a helpful way for students to remember events in relation to each other and also for planning activities. Tiki-Toki guides students through the process of creating a timeline in a straight-forward way. Students can easily embed links but not images from a hard drive which might limit the usefulness for many students. Tiki-Toki does not have engaging features or examples so it may only be useful for students who appreciate the value of visual timelines and can envision how they can use it. Overall, this is a fine tool, but it might be best suited for students using it to meet a specific class objective rather than as visual study aid.

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Attention
• Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Organization
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently