Advanced Multimedia Storytelling MULTIMEDIA TOOLS Timeline tools Dipity

Advanced Multimedia Storytelling MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

Timeline tools Dipity: allows you to create embeddable multimedia timelines Tiki-Toki Flash Simile See Alex Gamela’s resource guide Examples: Shooting rampage in Arizona, NYTimes Gabrielle Giffords

Non-linear storytelling tools Projeqt – slide-based interactive storytelling platform Cowbird – storytelling platform based on simple human stories

Kinetic Typography Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator Prezi. com Examples: The Girl Effect, Good Magazine: the cost of war

Data journalism Tim Berners-Lee: "Journalists need to be data-savvy. It used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you'll do it that way some times. "But now it's also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what's interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what's going on in the country. "

Data journalism Steps to making stories from data: 1. Finding data 2. Interrogating the data 3. Visualising the data 4. Mashing the data How to be a data journalist – Paul Bradshaw Where to find data – Online Journalism Blog

Data Scraperwiki – helps you to extract data from a web site and put them in a more usable format. Google Docs Google Refine – for cleaning up data Digital Methods Initiative UK government statistics web site Guardian open source data LA times data desk Open Corporates database Where can I get the data?

Data visualisation tools Many Eyes – data visualisation kit from IBM Information is Beautiful Tableau Public Fusion Charts Free – create Flash charts Junar – collect, organize and share data Flash Freedive Various Drupal visualisation modules Journerdism’s resources list Examples GE: How much carbon? , News 21: Talking bar chart, Hans Rosling’s TED talk

Social media tools Storify. com – pull together social media updates to show a story on a particular subject unfolded Qrait – real-time ‘curation’ of social media updates on a story Twitterfall – geolocated tweets on trending topics Truthy – Analysis project for tweets and memes Examples Huffington Post, Seattle Times

Mapping tools Googlemaps Zeemaps – customised, embeddable maps Umapper – create embeddable Flash maps am. Map – interactive map creation tool, Flash based Vidmap – geotagging for videos Crowdmap – create crowdsourced maps Google Earth spreadsheet mapper Google Fusion Tables Examples Toronto Poppy Files, Wikileaks Iraq deaths, Word Album covers atlas, Tube strike crowdmap

Interactive games Flash QRCodes Examples: NYTimes – you fix the budget, Boston Globe Trek, QRCodes and the new journalism, Guardian pledge tracker, Rochester Democrat social game

Google tools Google Docs Google Insights for Search Google Trends Google Moderator Google for Elections