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My Name is Pastor Michelle Thomas and I have 10 jobs (literally). I am a local Pastor, Historian, Entrepreneur, Loudoun County Heritage Commissioner, President of the NAACP Loudoun Branch, Elected Official (Loudoun County Soil and Water Director) and the president of the Loudoun Freedom Center (a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to protecting, preserving and promoting African American History in Loudoun County). I'm looking forward to learning new tools and methodologies to bring the LFC museum artifact collections, primary source documents, storying telling, Afro-terpreting, Historic Sites & Trails Tours and Unique African American Research Methodology online into the digital and virtual universe. I'm excited to learn, while engaging in this new virtual frontier.

Monday, July 16, 2018

Online Timeline Tools


Online timeline tools or any of the data visualization tools for that matter, are never straight forward. After trying several of Dr. Evan's recomended timeline tools and nearly 6 hours straight of trying to enter my data, I came up with a goose egg (nothing). I couldn't even get the 1st time event logged using 4 of the suggested online timeline tools. So, I resorted to google and looked up "easy online timeline creators" and https://time.graphics/ came up. My timeline for the former Coton Plantation Starts in 600 AD and ends in 1863. Again, I coundn't even get the first entry going. Instead of typing in 600A.D., you had to use this cumbersome tool bar to slide to 600 AD. I never got there, maybe it takes 1000 years. Completely frustrated, I turned to Powerpoint, but couldnt figure out how to make the timeline continuous.

The Loudoun Freedom Center will definitely be outsourcing all timeline and data visualization for our website projects. My job will simply be to collect the research and provide direction on the look and feel of product designed. You have to know your lane and stay in it. Here are some online timeline tools sugessted by Dr Evans. Don't take my word for it. try them out for yourself, maybe you'll have more luck than me and I would love to get your feedback.

Timeline apps:
  • Simile timeline a simile widget for Omeka
  • xtimeline explore and create free timelines
  • Beedocs has two timeline products, one free, one for $19.95
  • timeglider.com is a web-based timeline application
  • Neatline at UVA digital to interlink timelines
  • Timetoast also allows you to create and share timelines on the web, as does Tiki-Toki
  • Sutori can also be used to create a timeline, or story, on the web.
  • Capzles put stories in a timeline form on the web. It could be used on a historical timeline, but most of the examples are more recent.
  • Timegraphics



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  1. Professor Charles EvansJuly 17, 2018 at 3:51 AM

    Most of the timeline tools are very straight-forward, but some caan be tricky. When you run into a roadblock, you have to make use of resources on the web. For example, if you are stuck with timetoast, I see at least 5 tutorials on YouYube about using the app. Same with some of the other timeline apps.

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Online Timeline Tools

Online timeline tools or any of the data visualization tools for that matter, are never straight forward. After trying several of Dr. Evan...