ENLS-5010-01 English Capstone Seminar, Colored Conventions Project: StoryMapJS

There are a couple ways you can make a StoryMap.

• Maps

  Add a slide for each place in your story. Setting the location is as easy as a text search for the name, address, or latitude and longitude. You can change the visual style of your map with a few presets, or you can use Mapbox to create your own style.

• Really big images

  You can tell stories with large photographs, works of art, historic maps, and other image files. Because it works best with pixel-dense files, we call these gigapixel. Setting one up requires you to host files on a web server.

Tips & tricks

1. Keep it short. We recommend not having more than 20 slides for a reader to click through.
2. Pick stories that have a strong location narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the map.
3. Write each event as a part of a larger narrative.
4. Include events that build up to major occurrences — not just the major events.

Media sources

StoryMap JS can pull in media from a variety of sources. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, Document Cloud and more!