Timelines 2.0: A Fun, Easy, and Free Classroom Tool

What do Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Virginia Woolfe, and Paris Hilton all have in common? They are all listed under writers in the timeline website I checked out (and had to register for, though it is free), called xtimeline, which this article in Edutopia, speaks of. I briefly went through a few, and the timelines are interesting and have links to other sources where you can gather more information. The part about creating your own timeline, imbedding pictures (when we learn how), and things of that nature, seemed especially fun. Interesting would be to have grandparents do one for their grandchildren. The children could see what happened in the world when their grandparents were their age and be astonished. (what did you do if you couldn't watch t.v., granps?) Not a bad site. I am sure there are many more things that could be done with this. Jeanna