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Multimedia tools

Advanced Multimedia Storytelling. Multimedia tools. Timeline tools. Dipity : allows you to create embeddable multimedia timelines Tiki -Toki Flash Simile See Alex Gamela’s resource guide Examples: Shooting rampage in Arizona , NYTimes Gabrielle Giffords.

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Multimedia tools

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  1. Advanced Multimedia Storytelling Multimedia tools

  2. Timeline tools • Dipity: allows you to create embeddable multimedia timelines • Tiki-Toki • Flash • Simile • See Alex Gamela’sresource guide Examples: Shooting rampage in Arizona, NYTimes Gabrielle Giffords

  3. Non-linear storytelling tools • Projeqt – slide-based interactive storytelling platform • Cowbird – storytelling platform based on simple human stories

  4. Kinetic Typography • Adobe After Effects • Adobe Illustrator • Prezi.com Examples:The Girl Effect, Good Magazine: the cost of war

  5. Data journalism • Tim Berners-Lee: • "Journalists need to be data-savvy. It used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you'll do it that way some times. • "But now it's also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what's interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what's going on in the country."

  6. Data journalism • Steps to making stories from data:1. Finding data2. Interrogating the data3. Visualising the data4. Mashing the data • How to be a data journalist – Paul Bradshaw • Where to find data – Online Journalism Blog

  7. Data • Scraperwiki – helps you to extract data from a web site and put them in a more usable format. • Google Docs • Google Refine – for cleaning up data • Digital Methods Initiative • UK government statistics web site • Guardian open source data • LA times data desk • Open Corporates database • Where can I get the data?

  8. Data visualisation tools • Many Eyes – data visualisation kit from IBM • Information is Beautiful • Tableau Public • Fusion Charts Free – create Flash charts • Junar – collect, organize and share data • Flash • Freedive • Various Drupal visualisation modules • Journerdism’sresources list • Examples GE: How much carbon?, News 21: Talking bar chart, Hans Rosling’s TED talk

  9. Social media tools • Storify.com – pull together social media updates to show how a story on a particular subject unfolded • Qrait– real-time ‘curation’ of social media updates on a story • Twitterfall– geolocated tweets on trending topics • Truthy– Analysis project for tweets and memes • ExamplesHuffington Post, Seattle Times

  10. Mapping tools • Googlemaps • Zeemaps – customised, embeddable maps • Umapper– create embeddable Flash maps • amMap – interactive map creation tool, Flash based • Vidmap – geotagging for videos • Crowdmap – create crowdsourced maps • Google Earth spreadsheet mapper • Google Fusion Tables • Examples Toronto Poppy Files, Wikileaks Iraq deaths, Word Album covers atlas, Tube strike crowdmap

  11. Interactive games • Flash • QRCodes • Examples: NYTimes – you fix the budget, Boston Globe Trek, QRCodes and the new journalism, Guardian pledge tracker, Rochester Democrat social game

  12. Google tools • Google Docs • Google Insights for Search • Google Trends • Google Moderator • Google for Elections

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