Mapping, timelines, video, audio, plugins, etc.

Here’s a list of resources particularly useful for Seminar 2, but likely useful for other courses, as well.

Making Radio
This American Life has a page of extensive resources about how to structure/write engaging audio.

Mapping Software Other than Google Maps
Google Maps, linked above, is often the go-to for map-making on the web, but it is not ideal for every use. Here’s a list of some other options that you can also edit and embed on your site. (If you want to extensively use maps on your site, you should activate the UMapper plugin that supports easy embedding of certain online map formats.)
ArcGIS Online
GeoCommons
Social Explorer
UMapper

Timelines
To make timelines, you might request a class version of Tiki-Toki that will allow for the creation of 5 embeddable timelines for the class under one account. For some basic information on how to use different media in Tiki-Toki, visit the FAQ page.

Audio
For those of you looking to use audio clips on the website, you should activate the podPress plugin.

Images
NextGEN Gallery is the one of the best plugins to use when presenting images. There are capabilities within this plugin to create the pop-up style image viewing you’re familiar with on Facebook.

Flash
If you want to have a Flash portion of your website, Wix is likely your best bet. You can create a page on there that can be embedded in the class site. You can see Wix in action on the main page of a past Seminar 2 East Harlem site.

For those of you who wanted to make a recipe book, this might be the best way to achieve that. Check out this book-like template on Wix. To access those kind of pages, once in Wix, you go to Add > Page Parts > Page Groups > More > Sketchbook. More information about Page Groups in Wix can be found here.

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