Microsoft Sway

Sway https://sway.com/ 

If, like me, you are thinking student presentations work so much better if you encourage story telling as the basis of the presentation than I think you should look at Sway, a presentation/digital narrative tool from Microsoft

 

Classroom idea: Chemistry students take an elemnt and tell its story!

Meograph

Meograph 

http://www.meograph.com

A more robust timeline generator that allows geographic placement, too.

Classroom idea: Book reports on historical fiction.

History Pin

http://www.historypin.com
This tool lets you upload images  to a location and  add your story.  Sort of like Google Earth, but browser based,


Classroom idea:  American History-  using Library of Congress images form Flickr

Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream 

to tell story of  theme (war, industrialization, immigration, etc...) across America.