Saturday, August 16, 2008

Dipity - Timeline Generator

Have you even found it difficult to remember event sequence? Timelines are a great study tool and dipity.com can help you create an amazingly functional and fully sharable timeline. And it doesn't have to be limited to just Historical events like World War II battles (although that might be good too). This might be useful for an English literature course to map out a plot sequence for a story. Or in a science course to better demonstrate the process by which the sun's energy is converted to nutrients in broccoli...



And then the functionality of this site can really pay off, and this is where things get a little geeky, if you have an RSS feed from a blog or twitter or anywhere really. The RSS can automatically generate a timeline for you. Create a blog for a class project and direct the feed to dipity and with little extra effort you will have a multimedia timeline to share of your entire project. That might be a lame example. You can do better!

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