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"Want to make an amazing timeline? * Create a timeline for almost anything * Add multiple layers to keep events organized * Keep your timelines private or share them with others * Preceden is completely web-based and 100% free" "When you hover over an event, the timeline will display the approximate length of the event at your cursor location. Other ideas for timelines: coordinate a get together, research history, track your startup, organize a vacation, mastermind Thanksgiving dinner, learn about family history, plan a revolution, etc." User can set up layers, e.g., education, relationships, locations in a biography. Doesn't have ability to upload pictures or video, however. Good instructional page with examples.

" The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution isn't about the building of railroads. In the video John Green covers how rail travel led to changes in where people lived, where they vacationed, and how they interacted with each other. A short lesson on the origin of Greenwich Mean Time is included too. "To bring the lesson into a current context, Green also does a nice job of making comparisons between the effects of the development of railroads and the effects of the development of the Internet." T/H R. Byrne

"A useful web tool which simulates a solar system allowing users to build their own." Very clever website that lets you create different types of planetary bodies, vary simulated speed of revolutions, etc.

"Combine a slow pace of meaningful change towards a new more enlightened vision for education with a rapid drive towards heightened levels of standardised testing (an unceasing desire to measure attributes of learning that increasingly matter less), and we have a system that is in need of radical change. The question is, will COVID be the catalyst for this change?" Educatiion is still operating on the industrial technology. Students are changing at the rate of digital technology. Will the extensive period of schooling at home on the Internet help make a change possible? We'll have to see.