StoryMap
Speaking of travel-journals, another tool comes to mind: StoryMap.
What does StoryMap do? It helps a writer tell a story about going on a trip. For instance, you want to write about your trip along the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. You recall the first distillery; you look up its location on Google Maps; you write about it; you save it as a slide. Then, you make a new slide: you recall the second distillery; you do the process again until you cover all the stops on your trip. Then, you publish it on the web. A reader views it; first, she sees all the distilleries as points on a map. She clicks the "Explore" button; she zooms in on the first distillery on the trail; she reads your piece. She clicks Next; she reads the rest of your story, slide-by-slide.
You don't have to use Earth as the map. Draw a map of a world that you created. Load it into StoryMap; write a story about a trip in that world. For instance, J.R.R. Tolkien could load a map of Middle-Earth into StoryMap and write more Hobbit adventures. Or, George Lucas could load a map of the Star Wars galaxy.
Let the WITS kids build a world. Then, let them guide us through it with StoryMap.
Like Adobe Spark Page, StoryMap move around a lot in real-time. So, screenshots will not serve it well. Instead, check out live examples here:
Requirements
- Computer
- Windows, Apple, Linux
- Internet Connection
- Web Browser
- Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, etc.
- Account on Google.com