American History Timeline

American History Timeline is a wonderful free iPad app that focuses on American History from 1770 to Current Events.  This interactive has 100s of images and tons of information that can be sorted through.  Best of all their are educational games such as Scramble and Matching to help reinforce learning.

I highly recommend checking out American History Timeline by clicking here!!!

littleBIG History

littleBIG History is a wonderful interactive timeline iPad app that became available for free yesterday.  This is a great easy to use app that covers areas from the Big Bang Theory up to Current Events (Cosmos, Earth, Evolution of Life).  This is a very robust app that has over 700 images and 1300 events as well as links.  Best of all, a user can search or sort whatever topic they are looking for through the use of tags.

I highly recommend checking out littleBIG History by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Educational iOS Apps click here.

RWT Timeline

RWT Timeline is a wonderful free iPad app (by Read Write Think) for creating timelines.  This is all done through an easy drag-n-drop interface and allows users to add linkable images to text text to create a beautiful looking timeline.  Also, a user can create their own profile for saving purposes and share via email or print out via a PDF.

I highly recommend checking out RWT Timeline by clicking here!!!

For my Pinterest board on Sites/Apps for Timelines click here.

myHistro

myHistro is a cool site that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's excellent blog.  This is a nice site for creating interactive timelines that can be embedded into a site.  These timelines can include all sorts of digital media such as: video, audio, and photos.  Also, it has nice integration of Google Maps.

I recommend checking out myHistro by clicking here!!

For my top 10 sites for creating timelines click here.

ChronoZoom

ChronoZoom is a new (beta) interactive timeline that is ideal for teaching the origin and history of the universe/cosmos/earth.  A person can scroll left or right like in most timelines, interact w/ images, and more.

I highly recommend checking out ChronoZoom by clicking here!!

Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline is just about here!!  Users of FB can now create a timeline w/ all of there posts, pics, events, etc etc in one innovative cool display.  Right now a user can do a tour of timeline and all its features by clicking here.  Timelines will go live on Dec 24th.

For more information click here!!!

When In Time

When In Time is a nice simple site for creating timelines.  Once a user registers they have the option to name/create a timeline by adding, text, photos, and video.  What's nice any "event" in the timline is clickable which allows viewers to find out more specific information.  Also, a creator of a timeline has the ability to make it public or private and select who if anybody has the rights to edit it.  My only concern is I don't know if there is the ability to embed these timelines into a site or if they are only viewable on the web via a URL.













I recommend checking out When in Time by clicking here!!!

For my top 10 sites for creating timelines click here.

Time Search

Time Search is an innovative wonderful site for searching for events on a timeline.  This is a great site for history teachers/students looking to find events on a specific time.  A user can search not only by entering a date but they can search through images and areas as well.  Time Search brings up a list of events in chronological order and images as well through Google.

I highly recommend checking out Time Search by clicking here!!

For a more detailed review check out Free Technology 4 Teachers.

Timetoast

Timetoast is a cool site for creating interactive online timelines. This is done through a nice user interface and the finished product can then be embedded into a site to share w/ others.

I highly recommend checking out Timetoast by clicking here!!!

Click here for my top 10 sites for creating timelines.

Weaving History

Weaving History is a new (beta) site that is great for making timelines based on history. This is done by matching "factlets" and "threads" and linking them to maps. Factlets are people, places or things and threads are factlets that are strung together. Once you start making a timeline you'll begin to understand.

Below is a pic of a Napolean timeline...




Give Weaving History a try by clicking here!!

For a much more detailed review check out Free Technology 4 Teachers.

For my top 10 timeline creators click here.

Tiki-Toki

Tiki-Toki is a wonderful new web app for creating timelines. While this is a paid service (premium @ gold accounts) there is also a free account which is ideal for testing out or for having students create one timeline.

There are plenty of great features that make Tiki-Toki such an attractive option for users such as: very user frienly (think Capzules), the ability to add videos (via Vimeo/YouTube) and photos (via Flickr), editing background picture, etc etc.



I highly recommend checking out Tiki-Toki by clicking here!!!

For my Top 10 list of Timeline Creators click here.

VidScan

VidScan is an impressive new site that shows Timelines of YouTube videos. The way this is done is by breaking down segments of the videos by comments to help users figure out which parts of the video to leave out. Keep in mind not all YouTube video has timeline snippets.



Give VidScan a try by clicking here!!

Thanks to Alexandra Fransisco for the tip!!

Time Maps

Time Maps is a wonderful site that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's excellent blog, Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a great site for history teachers/students and is a cross between a time line, enyclopedia, atlas, and tag cloud.

Below is a pic from the interactive map based on Europe....



I highly recommend checking out Time Maps by clicking here!!!

Top 10 Sites for Creating Timelines

"A timeline is a kind of graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and (usually) events labeled on points where they would have happened. It is used to show events along a period of time, and are often used in education to help students and researchers with understanding events and trends for a particular subject." (Wikipedia)

Top 10 Sites for Creating Timelines

1. Capzles - Quite simply one of the nicest timeline creation sites around, w/ a beautiful user interface as well as the ability to embed into a site.
2. Time Rime - An excellent site w/ educational instance (great for teachers) that allows users to create multimedia timelines.
3. xTimeline - Share wonderful looking timelines w/ audio, video, and pictures. Very user friendly too!!
4. TimeGlider - Great site that not only lets users create multimedia timelines but legends as well. There is a "plus upgrade" in the works specifically for education!
5. Dipity - Create beautiful timelines w/ the ability to add video/pictures.
6. Time Toast - A bullet point centered timeline w/ text and pictures.
7. Preceden - A fun easy site to use to create interactive timelines.
8. Timelinr - A very simple to use timeline generator that only displays text.
9. Our Timelines - Create timelines by using preexisting forms (text only).
10. Read Write Think - Very similar to Our Timelines for creating text only timelines.
    

Preceden

Preceden is a new (beta) site for creating simple timelines. While Preceden is not the most robust (lacks the ability to add media) of the web timeline creators it is one the easiest to use. Also, it has the ability to create more then one timeline in the same line, this is a nice feature.

Below is an example of a resume timeline...



Thanks to Alexandra Fransisco for the tip!!

Give Preceden a try by clicking here.

Conflict History

Conflict History is a great mash-up of Google Maps. It is ideal for History teachers who are dealing w/ world conflicts from any time period. The mash-up consists of Google Maps and a time line which is very user friendly.

I highly recommend giving this intriguing site a try by clicking here.



For another excellent review, check out Richard Byrne's amazing blog.

Bee Docs Timeline

Bee Docs Timeline is an application that has been around for awhile. It is designed to create stunning looking 2D/3D timelines for Mac OS 10.5. This happens to be one of my favorite Leopard apps out there.

What makes BD so great is how easy it is to use...just download that app (free trial) and you are all set to go ($40.00). You can then either create a timeline from scratch or import it from any number of Apple apps such as iCal, Skitch, iPhoto, etc. Any application that handles photos can be imported into Bee Docs.

Also, BD is great at sharing timelines via, email, Quicktime, Keynote, or any mobile device. This really is cutting edge software.

Download Bee Docs Timeline by clicking here.

Below is my sample timeline using the import feature on my blog...