s/o Timelines -- Timeline Software or App?

[mommymonster]

DS10 is dysgraphic and finds writing intolerable. We are getting him a laptop (Windows based) and transitioning all of his work to computer-based. I would like for him to do a timeline next year for history. Do you know of any timeline software or apps? It needs to be pretty simple to use, and preferably have the ability to accept graphics (cut and paste-type things). I'd like something he can work on and then print out at the end of the year/semester.

[Um_2_4]

I'm listening, because that sounds like a fabulous idea!

[Alessandra]

We got TimelinerXE from Tom Snyder software years ago and did some wonderful timelines using it. But it is pretty old, and I am not sure it's had an major revisions. Now I see lots of timeline programs and apps, many of them free. If I we're looking how, I would check them out first. One example:

 

http://www.timelinemaker.com

 

This is what we have

http://www.learningservicesus.com/home/ls2/page_4688_206/timeliner_xe.html

 

This is the same software, but the site says it's free?

http://timeliner-xe.software.informer.com

 

Although I like apps, timelines are something I think work most easily on a computer, because it is easier to drag pictures and other media into the timeline via computer.

 

Btw, I would suggest getting the Homeschool in the Woods timeline figures. It takes more time than you might imagine to locate images, label, resize and drag into timeline.

 

This is just my opinion, but I like computer timelines for short projects and paper timelines for ongoing projects. Every time you add an event, you have to start reprinting if you want to update computer based timeline. For paper, you just glue or write.

Edited April 6, 2016 by Alessandra

[mommymonster]

Alessandra, Thanks so much for the recommendations. I've been researching for a while now, and there's just a dizzying array of options. I love the look of TimeLiner XE. We have Windows 10, so I'll need to figure out if the program will work with the computer. 

[mommymonster]

Well nuts! I just received a response from Learning Services. The product was bought out by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and they aren't updating/producing the software anymore. The folks at Learning Services are removing the software from its website... Bah!