How my sunflowers grow – an h5p timeline
I have been documenting the growth of my sunflowers through images this year and thought it would be cool to include the pictures in an interactive timeline so you could see the relative time between them. My photos started on March 31, 2024, but the lineage of the seeds I planted goes back to 2012, and I also wanted to include some images from then. Displaying images over time can be helpful for educational purposes since accessing information in a sequence helps build a narrative and tells a story.
Several approaches exist to display a sequence of images on your website or in your learning management system, but none compares to the relative ease and universal accessibility of the H5P timeline tool. H5P has a tremendous collection of interactive content types in its library, all of which are easily embedded on various platforms and can be shared openly and reused by others if you wish. Play around with some of the features below to change the display and read the details that go with each entry.
Putting this timeline together took a fair bit of preparation, not unlike the work I described in my course earlier this year on building your portfolio. Before you begin, you really want to have your media collection sorted, clearly labelled, and optimized for the web. After that, it is a pretty simple matter of completing the authoring form and adding your dates, descriptions, and metadata for each item.
Interactive timeline
I will continue documenting the growth for the rest of the season so be sure to check back again to see the progress. I have a few more stories coming out soon about this project, which I will share on my personal blog, and I am getting inspired to make some art as well.
Hey Seedfather Jason! I’ve been eyeballing your giants on the Instagram and I think you’ve seen mine. Love this timeline, you give yours more TLC than we do.
If I read right these are descendants of the original seed it forward from 2012? That is amazing as stories go.
I think there’s space for some kind of global sunflower sharing! (Did I ever tell you I had mailed some to a teacher in New Zealand?)
I owe you an email!
Alan! Yes, I thought these were descendant seeds, but after seeing the results I am not so sure. Scott tells me he has been growing the same seeds, but I thought the OG variety were “Russian Mammoth sunflowers” much bigger. Both the plants and the seeds. I have acquired some new breeds of seeds for next year, so will do some comparisons. I would love to see if others have been keeping their seed stock going and if the plants have changed or cross bred as the years have gone by. Chat soon my man!