My group was assigned to work with Timetoast! Timetoast is a tool that allows you to create your own interactive timelines. It is a perfect way for students to be able to learn about an historic event without being overloaded with information. It's also great because there is already an enormous database full of timelines that have already been created.
The process of making a timeline is actually really easy. All you need to do is add either an event or time span. For each event, you can add a photo and a paragraph or two of information. You could even attach links to different websites. When the timeline is finished, you actually embed it into a webpage. So, students wouldn't even have to leave a wiki, for example, to see the timeline. I really wish I had known about this tool when I was taking some history courses a couple years ago. I think that timetoast could be really beneficial to history teachers, and also to foreign language teachers when they teach about the history of the country/ language. 
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