Added by Katie Lepi on 2013-05-03
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Creating custom timelines is an age old school project, especially for history classes (since history is basically a giant timeline, after all!) Way back in the day, when I was a student, I remember drawing out my timelines with colored pencils on pieces of taped together construction paper (to make the line long enough). We've come a long way since the late '80′s, and there are a lot of web tools and apps out there that help users make much more advanced timelines than I could crank out with my awesome colored pencils. Whether you're using them to chronicle well known historical events, or your own personal history, these tools can bring together audio, video, photos, text, and more to showcase a well rounded, multimedia timeline to tell your story.
Time Toast
timetoast
Time Toast also offers uses free, unlimited timelines and easy Facebook integration. The interface is extremely simple - just click 'add an event', and you can add text, links, or photos. While it doesn't offer some of the audio/video options that some of the other products we mention in this post do, it offers a lot more simplicity. Of note, there are a number of ads on the site - which can be expected with a free tool - but just something to keep in mind.
Meograph
meograph
Meograph's tagline is 'Four Dimensional Storytelling'. It offers a simple interface that allows users to combine news, history, travels, life events, photos, videos, audio, etc to create a multifaceted timeline. It offers easy sharing options and a web based interface. Users can purchase usage by the class with three different options starting at $19.99.
Capzles
capzles
Capzles is similar to Meograph in that it allows users to integrate information from a variety of different sources (video, audio, photos, text, etc) into one multifaceted timeline. Free to join, Capzles is also working on an Indiegogo project that will allow them to develop a similar tool th
Added by Katie Lepi on 2013-05-03
56
Creating custom timelines is an age old school project, especially for history classes (since history is basically a giant timeline, after all!) Way back in the day, when I was a student, I remember drawing out my timelines with colored pencils on pieces of taped together construction paper (to make the line long enough). We've come a long way since the late '80′s, and there are a lot of web tools and apps out there that help users make much more advanced timelines than I could crank out with my awesome colored pencils. Whether you're using them to chronicle well known historical events, or your own personal history, these tools can bring together audio, video, photos, text, and more to showcase a well rounded, multimedia timeline to tell your story.
Time Toast
timetoast
Time Toast also offers uses free, unlimited timelines and easy Facebook integration. The interface is extremely simple - just click 'add an event', and you can add text, links, or photos. While it doesn't offer some of the audio/video options that some of the other products we mention in this post do, it offers a lot more simplicity. Of note, there are a number of ads on the site - which can be expected with a free tool - but just something to keep in mind.
Meograph
meograph
Meograph's tagline is 'Four Dimensional Storytelling'. It offers a simple interface that allows users to combine news, history, travels, life events, photos, videos, audio, etc to create a multifaceted timeline. It offers easy sharing options and a web based interface. Users can purchase usage by the class with three different options starting at $19.99.
Capzles
capzles
Capzles is similar to Meograph in that it allows users to integrate information from a variety of different sources (video, audio, photos, text, etc) into one multifaceted timeline. Free to join, Capzles is also working on an Indiegogo project that will allow them to develop a similar tool th
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Another blast from pickings past, retrievr is an experimental image search tool that uses color recognition to retrieve Flickr images that reflect the spatial color arrangement of a digital sketch you draw on a canvas.
"That's all changing, thanks to a new website I learned about recently--Symbaloo. This is the ultimate way to organize websites, and the best part is that it's visually appealing! Perfect for me!! I can organize the resources in different folders by adding new tabs at the top of the page. If you really want to be OCD about organizing, you can even color-code your resources!!"
"I built this site to supplement the information in the book; it includes video tutorials, sample SketchUp files, color images and links to useful resources around the Web. Most of the stuff on this site is organized according to the chapters in the book. Have fun!"
Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text. Start drawing now!
In just 5 easy steps, you will create brochures for your business, your group or yourself.
MyBrochureMaker offers colorful, premium brochure templates for a wide range of business categories. But what makes it awesome is that anyone - no matter how creative or computer challenged - can create a quality brochure that gets your business noticed.
You can print it yourself on your desktop printer. Or, have us print it professionally and ship it directly to you.
ScreenChomp is a digital whiteboard that users can write and draw on with the touch of a finger. You can draw using twelve different pen colors. All activity on ScreenChomp can be easily recorded and then if you want, edited through Camtasia for Mac or Camtasia Studio. The videos produced in ScreenChomp can be downloaded as MP4 files, making them easy to share on ScreenChomp.com, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, Blackboard and other video hosting platforms.
Google Image Chart Creator is a free web tool provided to you by Google. It lets you create a variety of graphs by entering data points. In addition to plotting the data, it lets you customize various aspects of the graphs such as colors and margins. When you first visit the site you view thumbnails of different types of graphs that you can select from.
"Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "
Type in a search term and your results come back coded by readability level The name "Twurdy" comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?". The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.
"Google Page Creator
With Google Page Creator, you can create functional, attractive web pages in just minutes-without having to learn code. You can customize your pages using a variety of styles, fonts, and background colors, and your pages can include images and links to other web pages. We've designed Page Creator to be simple to use-there's no need to download anything to get started, and you can publish the pages you create with just one click. And perhaps best of all, Google hosts your pages for free."
"BeFunky simplifies photo editing and effects for everyday people.
Marvelous Photo Effects
Choose from our constantly growing library of photo effects to turn your ordinary photos into extraordinary art with virtually no effort.
Smart Photo Editing
Photo editing made smart. Fix your common photo problems like bad lighting, digital noise, fuzzy colors and details with one click.
Design Goodies
Give your digital creations a whole lot of character with BeFunky Goodies. Add speech bubbles, frames and more..."
"Create a tag cloud from cells in your spreadsheet with the advanced word cloud gadget. Popular words are bigger and bolder. Choose the color, exclude common ."
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most "interesting" Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our Piximilar visual search technology you can search the collection by colour. Check out the FAQ. Have feedback?