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Planning & Guides for Digital Storytelling
Four Key Considerations of Digital Storytelling:
- Purpose: What is the motivation behind creating a project? To teach? Inform? Persuade?
- Audience: Who is the project for? Who is the intended audience - and how will they access, interpret, and use the information?
- Perspective: What is the point of view through which the story will be told? Does it reinforce or challenge stereotypes?
- Design: How will the components of this project be organized and presented?
- Get Started: Student GuideA simple guide for developing your digital storytelling project, with templates for planning, managing your sources and assets, and outlining your story.
- Planning and Outlining Your StoryA guide from ArcGIS detailing an approach to outlining a digital story.
ArcGIS StoryMaps Tools & Tutorials
Access Your UD StoryMaps Account
Each student in HST-498 will receive an email from the sender ArcGIS Notifications with an invitation link to UD's StoryMaps instance. Please open the email, click the link, and follow the prompts to log in.
Already set up with a StoryMaps account at UD? Find it here: https://udgeo.maps.arcgis.com/
- Getting Started with ArcGIS StoryMapsA tutorial from Esri's StoryMaps team that walks step-by-step through the process of creating a StoryMap
- Quick Tips for Mastering the ArcGIS StoryMaps BuilderHow-to information and videos for different design features in ArcGIS StoryMaps
- Guide to Working with Images in ArcGIS StoryMapsInformation about file types, best practices for different kinds of images, and editing tools in ArcGIS.
Copyright & Citations
- Copyright Considerations in Digital StorytellingLibrary guide from Penn State with information about copyright, fair use, and proper attribution
- StoryMap Citation GuideIdeas for formatting in-text citations, footnotes, credits, and bibliographies in StoryMaps
