I wanted to try out Story Map, but then I learned that maybe it may not be the best thing for mine and Lillian’s project. The wifi on campus (actually, the internet on campus in general) is not great, so I am not sure if that affected how my story map turned out. I tried using specific addresses, but it either pulled up no results or just pulled up the city of Montevallo in general. I think that Google My Maps may have been the one to try with certain addresses, even though our conflict was contained into our small city.
I do like the format of Story Map, since it has the same style as the Timeline app, so the experience of using this particular feature was not too much of a bust.
Hi Kendall,
You’re completely right about the limitations of Storymap…it doesn’t play nicely with specific addresses but instead tries to just mark out a city in general. So for a very local project like yours, Google My Maps would work very well, because you do have that flexibility to highlight different addresses. It can be a really powerful tool (I gave you the most basic, bare bones intro last week), so if you want a map in your final project site, that would be a good bet!