I used this Xtimeline tool because I wanted to try a timeline tool out from Alan Levine’s list and I wanted to create a timeline progression of my information and images provided under the Creative Commons copyright from Flickr (the remix part) of a vacation to England and Wales over a three week timespan to show where I was on each day – it was a very busy trip! I think this tool works reasonably well, however, it did not want to have more than one item for a single day regardless if there were different times of the day for each item (how frustrating). It worked fairly simply and easily, but had some foibles such as the multiple items on the same day issue which was irritating. This also made me much more selective with the images that I used, as my plan was to have multiple images for each day perhaps this is a good thing though too as it does make the timeline too specific. Some good components about Xtimeline was that it had a built-in keyword tool and a location for the image / text source citation which was a nice touch. There are also some interesting tools to import / export the timeline as a CSV (comma delimited file) or XML (extensible markup language file), so you could built it outside of Xtimeline and then bring it in or out. Hope you enjoy the presentation!
http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/My-Favourite-Vacation–Traveling-Around-England—Wales
