My assignment was to create a narrative incorporating text, photos and video for a package marking the first anniversary of the election of President Obama. I’ve used timelines to do this in the past, but they don’t work so well when you’re talking about a lot of events that happened on a single day and don’t have precise times.
So, Google Maps it was. I decided to create my first interactive map telling the story of how Americans spent Nov. 4, 2008. Flickr’s Creative Commons provided the photos, while I collected the videos on YouTube.
Check out the map at TheLoop21.com. If you have suggestions for other tools to use, please pass them on.
