Texas Instruments TimeSpan Viewer Manual Book

6/20/03 © 2003 Texas Instruments

TI-83 Plus
TImeSpan™ Viewer

Getting Started

W hat Is the TImeSpan™ Viewer Application?
W hat You Need
W here to Find Installation Instructions

How To…

Start and Quit the Application
Select Topics and Timelines
View and Navigate Timelines
Zoom In and Out
Change the Way Dates Are Shown
Delete the Application

More Information

Error Recovery
Customer Support

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Important Information

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Graphing product appli cations (Apps) are licensed. See the terms
of the license agreement for this product.

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of their respective owners.

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What Is the TImeSpan™ Viewer Application?

TImeSpan™ Viewer is a handheld software application (App) for
the TI-83 Plus and TI-83 Plus Silver Edition that you use to view
electronic timelines created with the TImeSpan Creator software on
a computer.

TImeSpan Viewer is an excellent aid in teaching or studying:

• History, economics, and other social studies

• Discoveries and inventions i n science and technology

• Events in literature, music, and art

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Teacher creates topics
using TImeSpan Creat or
on the computer.

Topics are transferred
using TI Connect™
software and a TI
Connectivit y Cable.

Students use TImeSpan
Viewer to select a topic
and view its timelines on
the handheld device.

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TImeSpan™ Creator is a Windows® computer software application
that teachers or students can use to create topic files containing
multiple timelines, which can then be viewed on the TI-83 Plus.
You can use the TImeSpan Creator or TI Connect™ software to
transfer topics from the computer to the TI-83 Plus. For detailed
information on how to use the TImeSpan Creator, see the
TImeSpan Creator Help.

Up to three timelines may be viewed at a time on the handheld.
Students can compare one series of events with other events as
they happen concurrently.

TImeSpan information is structured as follows.

• Topics are files or application variables (AppVars) that contain
a collection of timelines. Each topic can have up to 20
timelines. A topic must have at least one timeline.

• Timelines are stored within a topic. The TImeSpan Viewer can
display up to three timelines at a time. Each timeline can
contain up to 250 events.

• Events are i ncluded in each timeline. Each event must have a
unique name and a date. The event description is optional.

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Topic

Timeline1

Timeline2

Timeline3

Event

Event

Event

Event

Event

Event

Event

Event

Event

General inform ation struc ture

20th Century

Sport
Heroes

Jazz
Giants

Battles

Desert
Storm

Pearl
Harbor

1941

Jessie
Owens

1938

Ben
Hogan

Hank
Aaron

1955

1975

1948

1963 1966

La Drang
Valley

1965

1990

Bird

Miles

Trane

Example: A topic named 20th Century includes t hr ee timelines, eac h of which
has its ow n ev ents.

The TImeSpan™ Viewer can display timeline names up to 20
characters long, including spaces.

Each Topic can have up to
20 Tim elines.

Each Timeli ne can have up
to 250 Events.

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What You Need

Note In thi s gui debook , any information that per tains to the TI-83 Plus also

pertai ns to t he TI-83 Plus Sil ver Edition, unless otherwise noted.

Hardware and software Notes

TI-83 Plus or TI-83 Plus Silver Edition
with version 1.16 or lat er of t he
operati ng system soft ware.

Download a free c opy of t he latest
operati ng system software fr om

education.ti.com/softwareupdates

. Look

for the TI- 83 Plus Operating System.

TI Connectivity computer - to-devic e
cable.

If you do not have this cable, c all y our
distributor, or or der the cable from TI ’s

onli ne stor e

.

Comput er with Micr osoft® Windows®
95/98/ME/2000/XP, Windows NT®, or
Apple® Mac® OS 7.1 or later.

You can use a Macint osh to install the
App or transfer topic AppVars, but not to
create T I meSpan t opics.

TI Connect™ soft ware 1.2.1 or later
for Windows or 1.0 for M ac intosh.

Download fr ee copies of TI Connect
software from

education.ti.com/softwareupdates

.
Follow the li nk s to Computer S oftware
and Connectivity S oft ware.

Optional: TImeSpan™ Creator
computer soft ware appl ication
(Windows only) to create TImeSpan
topics.

Download a free c opy of T ImeSpan™
Creator software from

education.ti.com/softwareupdates

.
Follow the li nk to Computer Software.

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Where to Find Installation Instructions

Detailed instructions on installing this and other Apps are available
at education.ti.com/guides. Follow the link to Flash instal lation
instructions.

Note The instr uc t ions in this guidebook are only for this App. If you need help

using the TI - 83 P lus, refer to its com pr ehensi ve guidebook at

education.ti.com/guides

.

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Starting and Quitting the Application

Starting the Application

1. Press Πto display the list of Apps on your TI-83 Plus.

2. Select TImeSpan. The information screen displays.

3. Press any key to continue. If at least one topic is found on your
TI-83 Plus, the MAIN MENU displays.

First - time Main Menu Normal Main Menu
If a topic file is not found on your T I-83 P lus , the following message display s .

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You must transfer at least one file created in TImeSpan™ Creator
to use the TImeSpan Viewer.

Quitting the Application

To quit the App, you must return to the MAIN MENU.

1. If you are on a timeline screen, press y 5 to return to the

MAIN MENU.

2. From the MAIN MENU, press y 5 to quit the application.

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Using Menus and Options

To select a menu option on the TI-83 Plus, either move the cursor
to highli ght the option and press Í, or press the number that
corresponds to the menu option.

To select an option defined at the bottom of the screen (such as

EXIT associated with the q key), press the graphing key

directly below the option.

Press a graphing key to
select one of these options.
For example, press q

to

select EXIT.

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