Featured 7-8-2014: Timeline World War 2 with Robert MacNeil

 

Timeline World War 2 is a definitive history of the Second World War, presented by broadcaster Robert MacNeil.

 

Timeline World War 2 for the iPad features a zoomable interactive timeline that dramatically alters how history can be viewed and understood, bringing to life the events of 70 years ago for a 21st century audience.

 

With more than a hundred films from the archives of British Pathé and US broadcasters, additional commentary by Robert MacNeil, over 600 still images, and 1500 written entries provide the viewer an insight into the events of WW2.

 

Timeline World War 2 key features:

• Search and filter the event timeline to focus on content that most interests you.
• A dynamic map of the war, showing invasions, occupations, allegiances, fronts and country boundary changes.
• The location feature on timeline items can be used to see where each event took place on the world map.
• Over 100 WW2 US and UK (British Pathé) newsreels from the declaration of war to the dropping of the atomic bomb.
• Choose from the original newsreel audio, or Robert MacNeil's commentary.
• Watch the films that interest you in the order of your choosing, either on your iPad, or on your television with AirPlay.

Timeline World War 2 is compatible with iPad and requires iOS 5.0 or later. It is available for $9.99 (USD) from the iTunes App Store.

 

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Featured: 2-20-2014 Timeglider

Timeglider is a flexible time-based visualization tool that can be utilized for a variety of applications.

 

Timeglider can quickly enhance your experience of the past, present, and future. It has been used by thousands of teachers. Students can easily create timelines, helping them understand the history of an event.

 

Timeglider is a data-driven, interactive timeline application. You can drag the timeline left and right, zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or a few hours. You can create event spans to see durations and how they overlap. 

 

 

Timeglider lets you collaborate and share easily. If you choose to make a timeline publicly accessible, a URL will be created with which to share your timeline. You can use that URL inside of an embed code, as well, for placing on blogs and web pages.

 

 See how to sign up for and use Timeglider

 

Individual students can open a free Timeglider account that provides up to 3 timelines. A basic teacher account that allows up to 30 student users is $5 US monthly ($50 US annually). School accounts are also available.

 

 Timeglider is not Flash-based. It uses HTML-5, so it functions on an iPad and other iOS devices through their browser.

 

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Featured: 2-19-2014 Timerime

TimeRime is a web application that allows users to create, view, and compare interactive timelines.

 

TimeRime timelines can be interactive and multimedia, incorporating text, music, YouTube movies, Google Maps, and so on.

 

 

The TimeRime online community allows people from all around the world to view, create, and compare timelines about anything that relates to time. For instance a timeline about a scientific development, or an historical event.

 

 

Visitors to the website can register for a free account allowing them to create timelines. Timerime Edu Standard offers the following additional features for an annual fee of €149 (about $200 US):

• Your own TimeRime environment with restricted access.
• Access for all students and teachers in your school.
• Unlimited number of timelines.
• No advertisements.
• Teachers have admin rights that allow them to view, edit or delete timelines of students, and to grant and deny access to students.
• Timelines can be saved as pdf.
• Smartboard compatibility.

 Watch a screencast showing how to use Timerime

 

Timerime is available in English, Dutch, and Spanish. Flash is required.

 

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Featured: 2-18-2014 TimelineJS

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables users to build visually rich interactive timelines. Create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.

 

Make your own interactive timeline in four easy steps:

1. Build a new Google spreadsheet using the TimelineJS template. Drop in dates, text and links to media.
2. Publish the Google spreadsheet to the web to generate a URL.
3. Copy and paste the spreadsheet URL into the generator box on the TimelineJS site.
4. Copy the resulting embed code and paste it into your site where you want your timeline to appear.

Media from a number of sources can be used with built-in support for Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Wikipedia, and more.

 

 

 See a video walk-through of TimelineJS

 

TimelineJS works on any site or blog. All modern browsers are supported (as well as Internet Explorer 8+). It is available in 40 languages.

  

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Featured: 1-7-2014 ChronoZoom

ChronoZoom is a free, open source timeline tool that allows teachers and students to create powerful interactive timelines that reveal new perspectives on history.

 

 

Unlike conventional timelines, ChronoZoom allows you to zoom in and out between a timeline that covers decades and one that covers billions of years. View Big History in a whole new way. Browsing through history on ChronoZoom lets you explore an array of historical data including articles, images, video, and audio.

 

 

ChronoZoom can help put historical events in perspective. There is a tendency to think of time solely in linear, sequential terms, thus hiding the scope of the breadth of time. If you use ChronoZoom to zoom from the Industrial Revolution all the way back to the Big Bang, you can see how that depth provides an entirely new way to visualize time and history. 

 

 Watch ChronoZoom: A Timeline for Big History

 

A great many resources have already been created in ChronoZoom. The timelines, exhibits, and tours have been created by authors from many disciplines, and express unusual and compelling views of history.

 

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Featured: 7-9-2013 WeVideo

WeVideo is a web application that allows you to edit videos online and collaborate on the editing process with others.

Edit anytime, anywhere, on any device with WeVideo's powerful cloud-based video creation tools.

Teachers can set up class video projects with WeVideo for Education, making relevant media available to each class. The educator can also group students, view and comment on their work, and monitor the progress of each video project.

WeVideo has three interface levels. It can be used both by novices that have never before edited a video, as well as more experienced editors and even experts. You can switch between modes at will, as you like.

Unique Themes give your video a specific look and tone with a single click. Your video can be designed with professional visual effects, transitions, typography, and sound tracks.

 Watch WeVideo - Video Editing in the Cloud

Capture videos and photos and upload them into your WeVideo account using apps for your Android or iOS device. Mobile users who already use WeVideo can quickly transfer footage into online video editing projects.

For $100 (USD) per semester, up to 50 students can use WeVideo. Volume license pricing is available for multi-class, school, or district subscriptions at lower costs per student.

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Featured: 4-9-2013 Making the Modern World [History]

Making the Modern World delivers powerful stories about science and invention from the 18th century to today to explain the development and spread of modern industrial society and all its effects on the lives of people.

Making the Modern World extends the permanent landmark gallery at the Science Museum, using the Web and multimedia to go  beyond the capabilities of a static exhibition.

Features of Making the Modern World:

• Animated scenes explore historical episodes, explain landmark discoveries, and take you to special places like the Apollo cockpit and James Watt’s workshop.

• The story timeline runs from the scientific Enlightenment of the 18th century, through the age of coal and steam, and right to the modern world of science and skepticism.

• Icons of Invention displays over a hundred amazing 'firsts' in the Science Museum, from the Rocket locomotive to DNA, that mark some of the biggest steps in science and invention.

• Linked closely to the stories, the learning modules support A level and vocational students in their studies and offer a deeper understanding of a wide variety of subjects to all interested users.

• Eight dynamic guided tours help you follow stories and paths linked across time.

• Technology is woven into everything we touch. Explore the everyday life objects used at home, at work, and at play.

Making the Modern World is sponsored by the ISB fund of the Treasury and the Cabinet Office, and is produced in partnership with mwr and Peter Symonds College, Winchester.

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Minds of Modern Mathematics [iPad]

 

Minds of Modern Mathematics is a free iPad app from IBM that will help you understand how mathematicians and mathematics have shaped the world in which we live.

Through an interactive journey spanning nearly 1000 years, The Minds of Modern Mathematics tells the story of mathematics and how it has factored into nearly every aspect of human endeavor, from science to music, art, architecture, and culture.

Minds of Modern Mathematics is a digital recreation of a 50-foot-wide wall installation that was part of the 1961 Mathematica exhibition sponsored by IBM.

Features include:

• Get a bird’s-eye view of the entire history of math, including the explosion of recent discoveries in Millennium view.
• See the interplay of ideas between contemporary mathematicians, culture, and history in Century view.
• 3D Chronological view lets you step through the entire timeline one thing at a time.
• Discover each mathematician through a high-resolution portrait, detailed personal biography, achievements, related artifacts, and links to online information resources.
• Explore 495 high-resolution images of artifacts selected and retouched from the original Mathematica exhibit.
• View a fully navigable, ultra high-resolution version of the original Men of Modern Mathematics poster.

Note: Minds of Modern Mathematics requires an iPad running iOS 3.2 or newer.

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COD - 3/22/2012 - TimeSearch [History]

 

TimeSearch is a search engine devised for anyone interested in history. The raw material of TimeSearch is events of any kind, whenever they may have happened.

By delivering events in the form of timelines, TimeSearch introduces the element of serendipitous discovery. Unlike a conventional search engine where you need to have some idea of what you are looking for, with TimeSearch you only need to indicate broad areas or themes that interest you and at what period in time.

A previously unknown event may be just the thing you were looking for. TimeSearch currently has nearly 10,000 events in its timelines and it is growing. Search results come with links for related text searches, images, links, and/or maps for each event in the timeline.

TimeSearch was developed by Bamber Gascoigne and Ian Henghes, who are fellow directors of the educational website HistoryWorld.

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Catch of the Day - TikiToki - 4/8/2011

TikiToki makes it easy to create attractive, animated, interactive timelines that work in your browser. TikiToki enables users to create timelines that include videos and image galleries.

TikiToki makes creating online timelines painless. With a free basic account, you can quickly be creating a timeline. TikiToki integrates with Flickr, Youtube and Vimeo, making adding videos and images to your timeline simple.

TikiToki timelines offer teachers an agreeable and engaging way of teaching kids about historic events.

Note: TikiToki is based on javascript, an openly available browser technology, rather than Flash so it works on iOS devices.

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Catch of the Day - Gapminder - 10/20/2010

The intent of Gapminder is to be a "fact tank" promoting a fact-based world view.

Gapminder wants to make data more accessible and easier to use for quick visual analysis. It is their belief that education at almost all levels lacks adequate tools to do this.

The For Teachers section is for educators who want to use Gapminder in their classrooms. Here you'll find shortcuts to tools and guides for integrating Gapminder in your lessons.

Gapminder is currently working on ...

• Keeping their tools and statistical content up-to-date and making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
• Producing videos, Flash presentations, and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics.

Download and install the Gapminder Desktop application and you can use Gapminder World with all its indicators from your computer, even when you have no Internet access.



Watch the video "200 years that changed the world" with Hans Rosling, founder of Gapminder.

Gapminder is a non-profit Internet initiative that promotes sustainable global development and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Gapminder was founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in February 2005.

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Catch of the Day - WorldHistory - May 14, 2010

WorldHistory is the bountiful catch today

At WorldHistory you can find interactive maps, timelines, videos, geocoded photos, and museum artifacts.

WorldHistory users can create their own biography timelines and maps, add their own ancestors and view them on historical maps.

Browse WorldHistory by ...

• Maps
• People
• Events
• Artifacts
• Timelines
• Ancestors

You can easily create and populate a timeline about any subject you like.

If you have an artifact from your family history or have an image of an historical artifact, you can add it to the collection

Take a short video tour of WorldHistory

WorldHistory allows you to connect people, events, places, and even your own ancestors all to each other.

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Catch of the Day - Magic Studio™ - 10 Mar 10

Today's featured catch is the truly delicious Magic Studio™


Teachers and learners can use Magic Studio™ to find, customize, create, and share great learning resources.

Magic Studio™ Home Page

Magic has been developed in conjunction with museums, publishers, teachers, and students to provide an easy to use and highly engaging approach to visual, web-based learning.

The Magic Content Exchange combines content and resources from museums, archives, and publishers with resources built and shared by other teachers in the Magic community. The Magic Content Exchange can be readily and easily searched. There’s lots of free resources and if they do carry a fee, you only pay for what you use.

Example Drag 'n' Drop Activity

Magic Studio™ provides a number of easy to use web-based interactive tools with which you can customize existing resources or build new resources. Use audio, video, and pictures from the Content Exchange or your own personal stuff from Flickr, You Tube, Picasa, or your own computer.

Example Image Explorer Activity

Magic encourages teachers to share resources. You can control how and by whom you want your resources to be used in the Magic Network. You can form interest groups and work with other teachers to develop resources and exchange ideas.

Quiz Editor

Teachers can upload existing resources in a wide variety of formats to use or share or apply the tools in Magic Studio™ to create new interactives quickly.


Take a video tour of Magic Studio™


Magic Studio™ is free for individual personal use. There is an enhanced, paid-for version available to schools, Magic Studio Pro.

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