• http://timeline.cer.jhu.edu/

Malcolm Brown from Darmouth's Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the timeline creator, a nifty piece of software developed by the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins. At Wesleyan, we've created some nice timelines using fancy software (see South Asian Diaspora ) but haven't yet thought through how to go about taking this tool and allowing non-designers use it to make their own timelines. The folks at Berkeley's Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative point to TimeMap, a more sophisticated (and therefore presumably harder to imagine students using) tool for displaying data with a spatial and temporal component.

It would be interesting to hear from others on campuses where students are being asked to create these sorts of documents, and to know more about how these sorts of documents are evaluated. (If you are logged in, you can put comments below; soon enough you will be able to comment without needing to login.)