I want to give my students a range of options for tools that will help construct detailed timelines online and/or in printable documents.
What are some useful tools for creating timelines?
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Posted 8 years ago Permalink
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You might want to have a look at Bee Docs Timeline. I wrote about it awhile ago in ProfHacker (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Challenging-the-Presentatio/22666/)
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In my delicious bookmarks:
http://www.timerime.com/
http://mattbango.com/notebook/web-development/pure-css-timeline/
http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
http://www.dipity.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graphical_timelinePosted 8 years ago Permalink -
And Brian Croxall has a nice tutorial for using Timeline and Exhibit from MIT's SIMILE group, along with Google Docs: http://briancroxall.net/TimelineTutorial/TimelineTutorial.html
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briancroxall
MemberBest AnswerI appreciate Bethany's mentioning my timeline tutorial. I need to update it a bit, but if you have any questions while trying to implement a SIMILE timeline, please feel free to shoot me an email or a tweet.
For THATCamp CHNM 2009, I came wanting to talk about time and space, which I wrote about in my pre-camp post. I evaluated a number of timeline tools for this project, and I compiled a spreadsheet about them.
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+1 for Brian's SIMILE Exhibit/Timeline material. I've used it a lot, and love the ability to create either very simple or very complex representations of data, especially if you include types and learn to navigate through the relations between data points.
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Jason Boyd
MemberBest AnswerHere are some timeline tools & tips I've come across as a part of an environmental scan (I can't vouch for their efficacy):
http://www.timelinemaker.com/
http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/time-line-software.htm?id=137541
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5065383_make-timeline-template-microsoft-word.html
http://www.templatekit.com/tstore/product_info.php?products_id=256
http://binginfodesign.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/building-a-timeline-template-in-flash/
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline
http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/timeline.htm
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines/
http://www.timetoast.com/
http://www.preceden.com/
http://www.worldhistory.com/I see Bethany has not mentioned the Temporal Modelling Project: http://iath.virginia.edu/time/
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Oh, yeah. That. ;)
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mauropasi
MemberSorry for going around exhuming old questions but there is a new tool that I think is way better than all the others (and I am not just saying that because I work for it).
It's called myHistro and it focuses on the geographical visualization of the events which is something that all other tools lack.
I wrote a short article about its use in the classroom here: http://www.myhistro.com/blog/interactive-timelines-for-teachers-and-students
Mauro Pasi
http://www.myhistro.comPosted 6 years ago Permalink -
Readers may also be interested in Neatline, a newly-released tool for creating timelines and geo-temporal visualizations from the content of Omeka collections:
The timeline feature in Neatline may be used alongside its map-annotation features, or separately (as "Neatline Time"). Users of the larger Neatline plug-in have to ability to indicate ambiguity or uncertainty in events plotted on the timeline, making it a more attractive option for humanities interpretation than most existing timeline systems.
Posted 6 years ago Permalink -
digitalmom
MemberI really like a more photo based timeline and to see them larger, so I have been working with a timeline creator called liniaa.
I have a nice wall of images I can see at a glance. This is great for documenting children growing up, I added my son's first words, his toys, his drawings and family vacations.
http://liniaa.comPosted 3 years ago Permalink
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