Timetoast

Timetoast (http://www.timetoast.com) is a simple, web-based timeline creator. Users can add titles, text, images, and URLs to specific dates or longer spans of time. All timelines are publicly viewable and can be shared via a unique URL or embed code; Timetoast also offers a text view for easy printing. Instructors and students could use Timetoast for project management, personal reflection, or content development and distribution. Thanks to Matt Russell for the share and Timetoast user “zaahirah” for the Space Race timeline below:

Tiki-Toki

Tiki-Toki (http://www.tiki-toki.com/) is a web-based timeline creator that allows users to embed videos, images, and text into their timelines. Instructors could use Tiki-Toki as an alternative or supplement to lecture, and students might develop Tiki-Toki timelines for any number of courses in various disciplines. Free accounts are available with sign-up but are limited to a single timeline; paid accounts offer group editing and other features. Here is a sample Tiki-Toki entitled “The Fight for Democracy in the Middle East”:

Dipity

Dipity (http://www.dipity.com/) is a web-based timeline creator that allows users to incorporate videos, photos, and other multimedia content. Dipity also expands the potential of the timeline interface with mash-ups such as "TimeTube," which allows users to create a "tubeline" of videos on a given subject on YouTube, and "Tickr," which builds timelines using photos on Flickr. Here is a sample Dipity that outlines post-apocalpytic literature from 1945: