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10 Best Interactive Timeline Makers – 5 Free and 5 Paid

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Need to find an interactive timeline maker to help you organize information into a linear structure? Timelines are linear organizers that help students to understand and illustrate the passage of large blocks of time. While the obvious application would be in a history class, teachers and educators from all disciplines and in all levels of education can benefit from teaching with timelines. Whether investigating events on a historical continuum, studying the evolution of a social and/or cultural phenomenon, or used as a tool for long-range planning, timelines are an excellent visual for helping students recognize " cause and effect relationships between events."

Whether you are a teacher, educator or student, here are 5 free and 5 paid interactive timeline makers to build beautiful, full-color, multimedia timelines.

1. iSpring

iSpring Suite includes a tool called Visuals which helps you create interactive timelines and three other types of interaction. The timeline tool is just a small part of the powerful capabilities included in iSpring Suite authoring toolkit.

Pros

Creates mobile-ready timelines.

It's possible to add unlimited events and group them in periods.

Timelines can be converted to HTML5, Flash, and EXE.

Users can add images, audio, video, and hyperlinks.

Built-in audio recorder.

Customizable player.

Copyright protection options.

Cons

Desktop tool - has to be downloaded.

Compatible with Windows only.

Vertical timelines can't be made with the timeline tool (however, they're available in the Directory interaction).

Here's how an interactive timeline created with iSpring looks:

Check out the step-by-step guide on how to make a timeline with iSpring Suite
Start creating amazing timelines right now
2. Sutori

Specifically designed for the education sector, Sutori 's online timeline software helps teachers and students create interactive timelines for assignments and sharing online.

Pros

Users are given a comprehensive, online tour of the software and its full capabilities upon registering.

A variety of multimedia timeline events are available with an eye toward the education sector, including text, multiple choice questions, images, video, forums, audio, and "Did you know?"

Events may be moved up and down the timeline using a drag-and-drop slider.

Timelines can be embedded onto other platforms without Sutori branding.

It is possible to add paragraphs, bold, italic, and hyperlinks to timelines.

Your timelines can be saved as PDFs offline and then printed.

Multiple users can edit a timeline at the same time.

Cons

Timeline is build as a series of web pages linked together. An individual page has to be created for every new event, which then have to be linked to events already created on the website.

There are a lot of fields in the new timeline template. Unused fields must be deleted before you can view your timeline. UPD: the template has been removed.

Because Sutori's software is specifically designed for educators and students, it may not be suitable for personal, home use, or use in the business sector. UPD: it's in the plans to open up to other user types over the summer.

Registration is compulsory.

3. Capzles

Capzles is an online software tool that allows you to create multimedia timelines for sharing online. The resulting timeline is almost like a blog-at-a-glance, documenting life experiences as they happen.

Pros

Supports a variety of entry types, including posting images, inputting blog posts, and uploading videos, MP3s, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files.

The interface allows you to put multiple files into each event on the timeline.

There are a lot of options for personalization, including backgrounds, themes, and colors, as well as the ability to add background music.

Interactive timelines can be shared through social media.

Cons

4. WhenInTime

WhenInTime allows users to create multimedia timelines for sharing on social media. The software has a simple interface, allowing for easy creation of online timelines.

Pros

Events can be imported and added to your timeline from a number of social media sites such as Twitter, YouTube, and Google+.

WhenInTime provides a number of themes and templates for its users, for use when personalizing their timelines.

Users can link their social media to WhenInTime to create an ongoing feed to their timelines.

The interface is intuitive and easy to manipulate, meaning that you can create professional-looking timelines with minimal time and effort.

Cons

5. TimeGlider

TimeGlider is online software for creating timelines incorporating graphics and event blurbs. Public timelines are accessible via a personalized URL, which can be shared with others through email or social media.

Pros

Dialogue box input makes it easy to create new events on the timeline.

Events can be recorded by the year, month, day or hour.

Multimedia files can be added to your timeline with images, audio and video links (from sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud), and hypertext links.

Interface allows users to see the whole timeline at a glance, or to move through the timeline one event at a time.

Cons

Manipulation of the final timeline is difficult to master, especially when setting the scale of the initial timeline display.

Graphics are more like watermarks than full intensity when displayed on the timeline, which makes the final display less visually interesting.

The timeline is divided into text and graphic lines, but images are automatically sized by height to fill the images lane, rather than sized by the user. This may cause overlap for entries displayed close together, affecting the organization and readability of the timeline.

Only one image per event can be added.

When you open the next event, the previous event popup is kept open, so it may be difficult to go through all the open windows overlapping the timeline.

Registration is compulsory.

6. ReadWriteThink's Student Interactive Timeline

Well-known in the educational community for their free tools and materials for literacy promotion, ReadWriteThink has a number of online, interactive tools for students, and the Timeline is one of them. With the Timeline software, students can create, save, and share free timelines.

Pros

Timelines can be organized to user specifications, whether by event, date, or time of day.

Timelines can be made more attractive by uploading and adding photos.

Students can save their timelines and come back to work on them at a later date.

Drag and drop interface makes the timeline easy to create and navigate.

Cons

The interface allows you to input a label, short and long descriptions, and graphic, but the long description disappears on the timeline and can only be viewed with the timeline viewer.

You can print the final timeline, but the timeline and long descriptions are printed on separate pages.

When entering information, the first letter must be a capital letter. A space must be entered before you can begin a sentence with words like eBook or iSpring.

7. Preceden

Preceden creates text-based timelines. Users can enter a title, date and description for each event, which is added with a dot on the timeline. Full text for events is displayed when the user mouses over the dot on the timeline.

The free timeline option allows you to add 5 events to your timeline. Preceden Pro costs $29 USD for one unlimited timeline, $39 for three timelines, and a onetime payment of $59 for unlimited timelines.

Pros

Cons

Only 1 timeline with up to 5 events can be made with the free version.

Other functions are limited in the free version.

Timeline creation may be rather time-consuming.

It's difficult to add links and images. The latter have to be hosted somewhere on the Web before adding them.

Created timelines can't be embedded into a WordPress website due to security restrictions.

Registration is compulsory.

8. Office Timeline

Office Timeline is a PowerPoint add-in that creates timelines slides for business communications. There is a perpetual, Free Edition designed for students and non-professionals, or a full-featured Plus Edition created for enterprise workers. The Plus Edition costs $49 USD annually, and there is also a Twin Pack which costs $89 and allows two co-workers to collaborate on a timeline. There is a menu on the site detailing the price for licenses for anywhere from 5 to 100 users after that.

Pros

Cons

9. TimeToast

TimeToast allows users to create timelines within moments of registering. Users can upload pictures to include on their sites (much handier than those which only allow for pictures to be inserted via URL), and create time spans to link events on the timeline into smaller groups.

The free web version allows users to create a single timeline. TimeToast also offers Basic accounts for $5.99 USD a month and Pro accounts for $8.99 a month.

Pros

Cons

Only three events can be displayed at the same time.

Few customization options (color, font, etc. can't be customized), so resulting timelines are rather plain and lacking in creativity.

The dates that the timeline goes by can't be changed, as the app creates units for you.

Support is only available in the form of a FAQ.

The website is slow.

Registration is compulsory.

10. TimeRime

TimeRime 's online timeline creator allows you to make graphic-, text-, and multimedia-based timelines. It costs $7.85 to create a single timeline with up to 100 entries. Tiered Pro versions are available by purchasing licenses (ranging from $199.99 - $1,999) or with monthly subscriptions (ranging from $12 - $125).

Pros

Cons

Complex interface, which leads to extra time spent on timeline creation.

Have to click on Up/Down arrows instead of scrolling the timeline.

Have to zoom in and out with inconvenient icons instead of using a slider.

Crops the printable version, so only part of the timeline is printed.

The generated embed code creates timelines of tiny sizes.

Images can't be added to the description of a period.

Registration is compulsory.

Would you prefer to create timelines in the familiar PowerPoint interface? Check out this article to find out step by step how to create an interactive timeline in PowerPoint and publish it for the Web with iSpring.
Did you find the perfect timeline maker in this list? Do you use another tool? Tell us about it in the comments below!

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10 Best Interactive Timeline Makers - 5 Free and 5 Paid

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Need to find an interactive timeline maker to help you organize information into a linear structure? Timelines are linear organizers that help students to understand and illustrate the passage of large blocks of time. While the obvious application would be in a history class, teachers and educators from all disciplines and in all levels of education can benefit from teaching with timelines.

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Here Is An Interesting New Tool for History Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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December 21, 2015
Chronas is an interesting new web tool we discovered through Larry Ferlazzo. This is a history application that link Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view. Chronas allows you to explore the world history through the use of a colourful map together with a time slider beneath it. You can use the time slider to select a given period in time and view the events that marked its history. You can also click on the different regions and locations on the map to access and read Wikipedia articles related to them.

To start using this application , head over to Chronas.org/history and click on 'Enter'. Adjust the time slider to the period you want to research and select a region on the map to see how it looked like then. Chronas provides few customization features that let you change area dimension and add markers, centre map on your location, and change map background and colour. Chronas is still in beta phase and you might run into few inaccuracies. Watch the video below to learn more about this application.

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December 21, 2015 Chronas is an interesting new web tool we discovered through Larry Ferlazzo. This is a history application that link Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view. Chronas allows you to explore the world history through the use of a colourful map together with a time slider beneath it.

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100 Diagrams That Changed the World | Brain Pickings

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Since the dawn of recorded history, we've been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity's most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris's color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee's flowchart for a "mesh" information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.

But most noteworthy of all is the way in which these diagrams bespeak an essential part of culture - the awareness that everything builds on what came before, that creativity is combinatorial, and that the most radical innovations harness the cross-pollination of disciplines. Christianson writes in the introduction:

It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Each was a product and a reflection of its unique cultural, historical and political environment. Each represented specific preoccupations, interests, and stake holders.

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The great diagrams depicted in the book form the basis for many fields - art, astronomy, cartography, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, history, communications, particle physics, and space travel among others. More often than not, however, their creators - mostly known, but many lost to time - were polymaths who are creating new technologies or breakthroughs by drawing from a potent combination of disciplines. By applying trigonometric methods to the heavens, or by harnessing the movement of the sun and the planets to keep time, they were forging powerful new tools; their diagrams were imbued with synergy.

Christianson offers a definition:

diagram
From the latin diagramma (figure) from Greek, a figure worked out b lines, plan, from diagraphein, from graphein to write.

First known use of the word: 1619.

1. A plan, a sketch, drawing, outline, not necessarily representational, designed to demonstrate or explain something or clarify the relationship existing between the parts of the whole.

2. In mathematics, a graphic representation of an algebraic or geometric relationship. A chart or graph.

3. A drawing or plan that outlines and explains the parts, operation, etc. of something: a diagram of an engine.

Complement 100 Diagrams That Changed the World with 17 equations that changed the world and the fantastic Cartographies of Time.

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A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 24 Resources to Celebrate the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Although January 15th is Martin Luther King's actual birth date, we will be celebrating Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 20th this year. The late civil rights leader and clergyman was assassinated 45 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. His convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, died 30 years later in a Nashville prison.
NOTE: This list is included in my Holiday Resources From September to June.

Bio.com- biography of Dr. King

A Box of Crayons- lesson plan for primary grades, based on the book, The Crayon Box That Talked

Education World Resources

Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words Through Diamante Poetry- grades 9-12; from ReadWriteThink

I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Lesson Plan- from Flocabulary

Infoplease- covers biography, facts, timeline and activities
The King Center- "Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
King Papers Project- primary and secondary documents pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Lasting Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.- interview with his daughter

Library of Congress Resources
The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr- from FactMonster (younger kids)

Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities- from Lesson Planet
Martin Luther King Online- biography, speeches, (text) quotes, videos and pictures

Martin Luther King Quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Non-Violence- for older students; from EDSITEment

Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

NAACP Honors Dr. King's Legacy- includes links to speeches
Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King, Jr

Printables and Worksheets- from Enchanted Learning; for younger students

Videos About MLK- History.com

Visit the MLK National Memorial in 3D- Google Maps

Worksheets and Activities- from ABCTeach

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Although January 15th is Martin Luther King's actual birth date, we will be celebrating Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 20th this year. The late civil rights leader and clergyman was assassinated 45 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. His convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, died 30 years later in a Nashville prison.

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A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 14 Sites About the Salem Witch Trials

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I got a request today from a colleague about a pathfinder for the Salem Witch Trials. As of yesterday, I had posted 122 different subject...