Multimedia
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Questions |
Media |
Examples |
| Can you tell this story chronologically? Does your story have a lot of significant dates? Are you covering an event? | Create an interactive Timeline | Abortion laws in the US |
| Does your story cover multiple locations? | Create an interactive map StoryMap | California farming |
| Does your article have data? | Create an interactive graphic with Infogram OR Canva | Exploitation of college athletes (Infogram)
India battles Covid (Canva) |
| Does music play an important role in your article? | Embed an individual song or create a playlist using Spotify | Taylor Swift album review |
| Do you have audio from an event that would help tell the story? Did your source(s) sound especially passionate when they were talking? | Embed audio clips or quotes with SoundCite or SoundCloud | Why students don’t have a voice (Soundcite)
Tree lighting (SoundCite) Living through a revolution (Soundcloud) |
| Do you have many photos and/or video clips that you want to showcase in a new way? | Create a digital flipbook with the Steller app OR create a digital slideshow with text and music in Adobe Spark | A day with the dogs (Steller)
Life after Lockdown (Spark) |
| Do you have a photo or graphic you can add information to? Or do you have multiple related photos you can combine into a collage and then add information to? | Add text, sound, or video clips to a photograph to create an interactive image using Thinglink or Genially or Interactive Image. | Fifty fresh faces (Thinglink)
Stars show out for jersey retirement (Genially) Student fashion shifts throughout Covid (Interactive Image) |
| Does your story discuss how someone or something changed over time? Do you have photos of it? | Show a before and after or compare two related images with Juxtapose | Class reunion |
| Do you have video footage from an event? Did you film an interview? | Post an unedited video clip OR edit a video easily with the Videolicious app (for short videos) or Adobe Spark | Queen’s Ice Rink (raw footage)
Fall Conference (Videolicious) |
| Do you have a video with multiple related parts? | Create an interactive video using Eko (formerly known as Interlude) | What’s in your makeup bag? |
| Do you have multiple short video clips? | Create a GIF with Giphy or Gyfcat | Behind the scenes: wrestling (Giphy)
Welcome back rally (Gyfcat) |
| Do you have a lot of related content you’d like to combine in a visual story? | Try an Adobe Spark page, Carrd or Exposure | COVID-19 pandemic (Spark)
State of Democracy (Carrd) Track and Field (Exposure) |
| Can you ask questions related to your topic? | Create a quiz with Interact or EX.CO | Non-traditional college path (Interact)
Which book are you (EX.CO) |
Created by Louisa Avery as a DiY project for JEA Adviser Institute in July 2020 with resources from Julia Satterthwaite.
Updated July 2021 with resources from Kari Koshiol.
