Hey everyone! This is my incredibly rough draft of the NDO timeline, there’s more to add, obviously, but here’s what I have for now. I’m having a little difficulty with this, but I think I will figure it out once I tweak it a little bit more. For instance, the totally blank white slide before my other two slides? And the fact that they’re stacked directly together?
Anyways, I also tried to add citations to this. I will list them below because I want to be double sure the credit is out there to our wonderful journalists from our school newspaper, the Alabamian. I personally think this timeline tool will be very useful in demonstrating the amount of time that passed, how the conflict looked throughout time, and discourse which happened during that time.
Citations for sources used in my timeline are below!
Haas, Jamie, and Geordie Kennedy. "Montevallo Inclusivity Forum Prompts Community Discussion." The Alabamian, 6 Oct. 2017, http://www.thealabamian.com/montevallo-inclusivity-forum-prompts-community-discussion/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2019.
Haas, Jamie, and Geordie Kennedy. "Montevallo Divided over NDO." The Alabamian, 26 Jan. 2018, www.thealabamian.com/montevallo-divided-over-ndo/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2019.
Hi Lillian,
This is a fantastic rough draft! The stacking you’re talking about is happening because your events are happening in a very tight timeline…so right now, you have events just from 2017- 2018, which is going to show up right on top of each other when the timeline is zoomed out to span decades or centuries. You can correct this a bit as a viewer by hitting the magnifying glass, which will zoom you in to the 1990s-2020s or so, and that will help begin to space things out. It’s just the nature of your story right now that it spans a relatively brief span of time.
As for the blank first slide, did you put anything in row 3 of the spreadsheet? That slide seems to be directing the viewer to a blank event around 250 BCE, so double check that nothing’s accidentally lurking in row 3 that you didn’t intend to be there! If you get stuck, we can always screenshare and try to see what’s going on (sometimes that’s easier than trying to guess based off what’s showing up in the final timeline).
Dr. Wallace