Timeline/Mapping Tools

Tiki Toki: This app makes beautiful, interactive timelines. However, its compatibility with WordPress makes it unable to embed in a WordPress site.

Here’s a Tiki Toki tutorial:

TimelineJS: We don’t have experience with this one, but it seems pretty user friendly!

Here’s a TimelineJS tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWbm4gF9lU#t=58

You can also visit this page created by a Macaulay Instructional Technology Fellow
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/springboard2014/category/resources/

Pinterest: If you want to annotate a map, Pinterest makes it easy. However, it’s not so great for showing things chronologically.

This link goes to a sample Pinterest map Kiersten made to see how the feature works:
http://www.pinterest.com/brookerhollow/fiber-yarn-stores/

And just in case you want to know more about TimelineJS, here’s another tutorial:

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