Create Timelines Online

Timetoast allows people to create interactive timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web. Anyone can join Timetoast and start creating and sharing their own timelines in minutes, all they need is a valid email address. It's completely free!

For the first time you can actually embed a timeline into a blog which is great which I have done below.  It is not visually amazing but ceratinly does the job.

Both student and teacher will find a purpose for this in their classroom.  I highly recommend checking it out here

Let your students create timelines on the web

 Preceden lets you organize important events into multiple layers. This makes it very easy to put everything into perspective and see how events relate to each other as time goes by.

The one clear use something like this has is the making of autobiographies. As it allows you to see how your professional life blended with your personal one and vice versa. Preceden is free and available here.