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A timeline of events from big bang to present day, showing relative timescales and with embedded media. Nice, but the interface needs refining.

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Simplest form of augmented reality I've seen; people holding up a photograph in the location it was previously taken, overlaying small snippets of personal history onto the present.

HT @jiscdigital

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Via @hblanchett.

Bristol Council have set up "Know Your Place", a digital mapping service that allows users to explore historic Bristol. There's an option for people to contribute to the information layer as well.

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A research and education platform that overlays historical map images onto a Google Earth background. 
The range of cities on display is limited but interesting. New York's a good one to start with.
I came across a few bugs where maps didn't appear or refused to be hidden but otherwise this is fascinating.

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Here's an innovative take on digital storytelling, creating fake Facebook pages for historical figures. Martin Luther's my fave.

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@ruskin147's only gone and done a radio series on the history of social networking for the BBC.

Listen here.

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Photographer Daniel Meadow's take on digital storytelling. Has some good examples of personal history stories and links to a BBC Wales project he was involved in.

Really like the quality of the writing in his work and the examples from Wales.

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Great for showing the scale of objects or locations in different contexts. 

Last week I was debating my wife about how deep the Marianas Trench was (really!). Now I know that if measured out horizontally it would stretch from Gosforth to Birtley. I would have thought it was further but then I started thinking how long it would take to walk that and trying to imagine the weight of water at the bottom of the trench.

Loads of applications for classroom/project work and for infographics.

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A really moving example of what happens when you combine, storytelling, mapping, archiving and social media - capturing the collective memory of the "Hibakusha" (survivors of the atomic bomb).

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The beginning of an archive of digital stories from people who have lived in Cardiff.

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Obsolete technologies that were cutting edge at the time.

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Blog post showing how the speed of information has changed in the hundred years between 1790 and 1890 (ish). Try graphing the table as a scatter graph to show the exponential surge around 1860

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Create a collage of significant moments in your life. Good for life stories, field trips or tracing the events over an academic year

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Make, share and explore timelines in a nice graphical format

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