Slides, links for interactive storytelling tools webinar

Thanks to all who joined today’s Online Media Campus webinar, Interactive Storytelling Tools.

The tools I demonstrated during the webinar were Storify, Google Maps and Infogr.am. The tool Elaine Clisham mentioned in her tweets (below) was Tableau. Elaine (a friend from our days at the American Press Institute together) made some of the same points I did, about how easily and quickly you can learn to use a new tool.

@stevebuttry My first (feeble) attempt at Tableau: https://t.co/LWmI6jyk43. Had to get it done fast, still learning how to make it better.

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry But start to finish, once spreadsheet was done, took me about an hour, including learning. No coding required.

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry Thanks! For much better examples, check out @colleenodea‘s work on @njspotlight: https://t.co/5GtKIFaMLE

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry I should say that the data for my maps had to be geocoded — but there’s a free online way to do that! https://t.co/CXgFyp0yu8

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry And I learned the hard way that it’s much better to clean/standardize data before you import it. Big pro tip. (OK; done now.)

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

Examples I used during the webinar:

Holiday lights map

Fireworks map

Carrie Jewell Dugo Atavist story

Chasing the Beast

Here’s the link from my 2015 Interactive Storytelling Tools class, with my students’ tutorials on various tools and examples of how they used them.

Here is an earlier post with more examples of interactive stories:

Examples of stories using interactive tools

Here are my slides from the webinar:

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