TimeRime

History teachers, this is the website for you! TimeRime  is a great website I found that lets you make, view and share interactive timelines. It is free and easy to use. You can also use other pre-made timelines that others have already made on topics such as musical history, world wars, famous politicians, the history of the United States, etc. This is a fun, visual, and interactive way to teach and learn about history and it is very helpful that you can make your own timeline using this site, because then you can be very specific about what information you enter into your timeline. This site is great not only useful to make timelines, but also to share your timelines with others, and learn from other timelines already made. You can also purchase a more advanced version of TimeRime for educational and professional uses if you wish, but the free version works fine for simple purposes. If you plan to use TimeRime to only view other timelines, there are no extra skills are needed, but if you plan to create a timeline, you need to learn to use the site, and also register for the site. The timelines would also be great to use with an interactive whiteboard, or SMARTBoard, or even an overhead projector. In searching some timelines that were already made, I thought that the one on President Obama's life could be very helpful to teach students and inform them with the upcoming elections and Presidential debates going on. This could also be a fun way to introduce a unit on Presidential history or to learn about elections and the government. I hope you find TimeRime as interesting and helpful as I did and that you plan on using it in your Social Studies lessons in the future.