 So this is StoryMap, and I put the URL into the chat, but it's just storymap.nightlab.com.nightwithacake. And this is a free tool that you can use to tell stories with maps. And so they have the example here of the westward expansion of the US. As you can see here, there are a bunch of different types of media that you can include. And so it'll start like this, you have the map points, you have images, you can do captions and you just scroll through, have tweets, video, whatever you need to have to tell your story, you can put into a StoryMap. And so the good thing about StoryMap is that, again, it's free. And two, it's relatively simple to use. And so once you're at the main page, you would just go to make a StoryMap. And you're led to a Google sign in. And so I've already signed into my Google account. And these are the different StoryMaps that I've made so far. And so you would just do a new one. I'm going to click on one that already exists. And so I've put a few slides in here already. And this is the campus historical markers. StoryMap that I created based on the special collections version of it that the whole has created. And since you can see here I have two map points with images. I have a call to action that you could do start exploring. And you would just use the arrows to move through. There's not much content on here at the moment. You can also just click on the markers to get the content. And so once you're into something like this, how do we actually make a StoryMap? That's the part that's great. You come in and an edit menu. And it's going to look like this for the title page. And so you would just put in a title and a description of what the StoryMap is going to be. You can do URLs out from this. So if you need to link out to like a Wikipedia page or say you want to link to the library's website, something like that, that can be done in here. You can just put in the URL for the image or you can upload an image and you can have the credit and the caption. That also accepts HTML. And so if we go to some of the points that I've already put in. I manually put in the Denny Chimes point. It is right here. I have Denny Chimes. I did not put in any information but you can do that. I have the image uploaded. I have the credit and then I have a caption and the caption itself actually serves as the alt text for the images so that makes this an accessible option for screen readers. You can also put your own custom map markers on there if you'd like. That's a bit more of a high end type thing. Not necessarily something that you have to do. So I'm going to add in a new map point. And so I'll just hit add slide. And so this is what a blank slide looks like. And I'm planning to do the little roundhouse, which as you can see is right there. It is literally the little roundhouse. You can also type in the coordinates or the town. So you can save Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it'll put you in Tuscaloosa. Obviously that's not where we want to be but you can put that in. So if you're trying to do something more general, you can also put in exact addresses. So if you're trying to get very, very specific, that's one way to do it. But there are multiple ways to put in your map points, whichever makes the most sense for you. So this is the little roundhouse. So we're going to put that there. And again, I don't have the information on hand for this information. And let's upload an image. And I'm not sure that it's going to show this part for you, but you just do the choose a file. And you would select the image. I believe this is it. And upload. And that shows up now. And so the credit. One thing to note is that if you are trying to upload an image you can use just the URL for it. But you have to make sure that it's the URL for the image itself. Often that's one of the mistakes that people run into is that they try and put in the URL for just the website generally, that will not load in it won't work so you have to make sure that it's for the specific image. And so we have all of this content in here, we'll do preview and see how it looks. So we've got our map spot, we have our marker, we have a caption, we have the information on what this is. And so that's that's the gist of how we do this it's not too difficult. Another thing that I'm going to do and this is not exactly a campus historical marker but it's similar enough. I'm going to put this at Gorgas. And we're going to have a virtual. Put a YouTube link in here. And so this is the university of the consistent. And then once we do a preview to see that that YouTube video is not here and you can just watch that straight from the map itself. And so if we go back to the beginning, you'll see, okay, these are the two new map marks that we made. We have the two original ones that I had and then we have the little roundhouse and we have the YouTube so we can click any of them that we want to click on in any order, or as I showed at the beginning we can start from the beginning and just scroll through. So that is the gist of it. Are there any questions now about this process before I show you some of the other things you can do with story map. One thing that I do want to emphasize is there is a save button up here. You might want to pretty regularly try and save that can be something that people forget. But let's also go back to the edit section. Oh, yes, this is different from the RJ. So this is the night lab story map. And so this is a free software that you can get. I think I put it in the chat but I'll put it in again. I really clicked keyboard. And so that is in the chat now. And the great thing about it is that this is, it's based through your Google account so it's tied to whatever your personal Google account is. It's pretty easy to use in terms of how you can customize it but you can make something that looks very nice. And then it's also embeddable so if you're trying to put it on to another website that's something that you can do. It's not really complicated. I used to use this when I was teaching freshman level courses on digital humanities. And this was one of their favorite tools to use. So it's a really neat thing to do and like I said it's free. It's relatively easy, and it makes some really nice looking stuff. So it always makes sure you go back to edit whenever you are trying to edit this otherwise the options will be blacked out. Right. Yeah, exactly. They would love it. They would absolutely love it. It's a really creative. It's a way that they could be creative and kind of stretch their their storytelling abilities. Okay, so let's look at map types because this is something that you can change. I don't recommend going completely crazy with the map types but you can do something like the open street maps. And so that will look quite a bit different on the map than what I just had as you can see like the other one was a pretty basic black and white map. This one has more of, here's what the buildings are actually called and here's the road name and here's parking. So you can do that kind of thing but maybe there's a time and place for that. There's also fancy ones for if you're trying to do something that's a little older. Here's a watercolor version of it, which doesn't tell you a whole lot but it looks nice in certain contexts. And there are some that just don't work all that great but this one's just a basic. So yeah, it's pretty basic. It's kind of hard to actually see what's going on there but just use your best judgment when you're picking the map type. But that is done in the options menu. You can also choose whether or not the call to action is going to be on there. So right now, when we look at my, my map I have this start exploring button here. But if I want, if I don't want that, I could just say no. If I do want that but I wanted to say something different. I can just type that in. What should I type in. See the markers. I think simple. And so now you'll see that the call to action says whatever I typed in. And so you can really customize it in that way. Again, always it save. Yay, saving. There are more complicated ways that you can do things with with story map one thing that I did want to show is that you can do your own maps. So this is a legend of time. I stand in a map from an encyclopedia of Zelda and this is now treated as cartography by story map. This is a higher level version of using story map, but it is something you can do and you can just scroll through have gifts in here. But it uses the image that I pulled in as cartography. You can also use that you can see the book find where I, where I scanned it. But you can also use it as an image. And so that one looks a little bit different. So for this, as I was trying to mention, I wanted to really track the journey in that game, but you can treat as an image. So if you do that, it doesn't have the lines anymore it just has the spots. So that is an option that you can do. If you're really, really interested in getting into the, the nitty gritty of how story map can be used but that's that's one fun example of what you can do. So are there any questions so far on on this or any of that weird stuff that I just got to show you. So how to what's learning careful when you start using it when you start doing the the image, like I was just showing you is that what you mean or just in general with story map. Yeah, like how long did it take you to feel like you were like really proficient and this like software specifically. I actually took the story map pretty quickly in general which is part of why I decided that I was going to experiment with the Zelda map to see what I could do with it. I think in 2017 was when I first started making story maps, and I made one about like my summer vacation. It was an easy thing to do and it, it made sense to me, and there's summer vacation map. And it's just my summer vacation all mapped out on these ghosts. You can click through things and see images videos, there's me being tired with my cat. But I just kind of did this on my own time. I didn't take a course on it. I didn't take any kind of workshop. I just kind of did it. So I think that that's something that can be said about this is that the one the documentation that they give you is very, very, very good on the website. So that helps a lot. And two, it's nice that you can just kind of play around with it. There, there's so much that you can do with it if you want to, but it's also got such an easy interface in terms of, you know, here's a headline here's a text box here's the URL here's credit here's caption you just put in the location. There's a whole lot that you actually have to do to make it look nice, which is great because a lot of people like they get frustrated if there's a higher learning curve. So if they can just do something that looks nice to begin with and they might be more encouraged to do something further with it. So yeah, for me it was relatively easy but and I had my my undergrads do projects in this and they did it within a week and had fantastic projects so I, I can vouch that that was at least nice I was very, very proud of them to do that in a week they did have a session with me on how to use it, but that was their, their assignment for that week and I had some really great ones turned in so I, I, I think it's a really great tool for for undergrad specialty, because it is. It's so easy to to use and it's intuitive. Hopefully that answered your question. Yeah yeah I did thank you. Do you feel like there are any limitations to the software compared to other mapping like story maps that you've used. Yes. Um, so one thing that I will note. If I can go back to the show up. There we go. Okay, so it's kind of hard to see on here, but there is a gradient here. You can kind of see there's a little bit of a blur. And some people don't like that. So, you know that that is a limitation sense that it's not that customizable in terms of the actual look of it. You just kind of get what you get the, you can change the maps, you can change the images but you can't really change how the, the tool itself functions. The only real customization you have in terms of that is being able to change the marker options. But that is actually way more complicated than one would expect it to be. So it's not something that I ever throw people into at the very beginning and you can do like background options you can like change the color behind the part on the right. You can put a background image but it's always going to have that gradient and so if you're not into that. And it can be a little bit complicated but I have also had some issues occasionally where the, the location doesn't show up properly. And I ended up having to just Google the last two launch to put that in and then it shows up. But that does happen, but it doesn't happen that often I've had it happen maybe twice in my time of making these so it's not too terrible. So, I want to also show you guys, how do we get this outside of where it is now. And that is the share button up here. So you can do a link. And that's how a lot of my students just turned it in was here's the link to my story map. But you can also get an embed code. And so if you are interested in putting that on a website, you would just grab that I frame embed code throw it in the HTML spot, and it would embed directly into your site. So there are multiple ways to show this. The big thing. It's so good it's so good I love it. But yeah so that's that's how you would do it is you, you have multiple ways. I didn't change details on with height, etc. But that's the basics of this and I think that that actually covers everything that I was thinking needed to be covered I have a nice video game history here. You can see the map here here, you want to look at that. Are there any questions in terms of like how it works how it functions anything that I was unclear about. I'm happy to answer them. Oh, one thing I do want to say is that once you have put things out, you can hit publish changes, and it will make sure that it saves. That's actually you've given somebody the link or embedded etc so that it actually updates the embed code version of in terms of there being a limit for the number of maps. Night lab is. Oh shoot who are they through. I'm blanking for you through Northwestern. And so everything that they really do is is free. And they have a sweet of storytelling. Tools that they have out. And so I've not run into a limit, but that's not to say that there isn't a limit. I just don't know what it is. I don't think it says on here that there would be one, but I think you could probably just keep going as long as you want. As long as you have a Google account anyway, that's the one thing is everything's tied to that one Google account so if you lose that then they're kind of gone. One reason like I would recommend for students to use like a personal Google account set up like a student Google account if they had that I know that the Google accounts here are going away for students so if they were tied to that that they will lose the content that they made. Are there any other questions. Well, I'm glad that you guys stop by. I appreciate you taking the time out. Yeah, it's really, really fun to make. As you can see I just kind of play around and make some for fun to use just to see what I can do. I like this one quite a bit because you can see that it is all the way on both coasts of the US there. It actually shows off the gradient pretty well, you can see what I mean in terms of it having that that gradient but yeah we have it starting over here and eventually going way way way on the West Coast. But I end up just making these sometimes for, for my own purposes for fun to see what I can do. It's recommended. I enjoy it. That's, I guess somewhat nerdy to be like yes I make story maps for fun, but that's the time to get to do what you got to do. Thank you. I'm glad. I think if anybody needs any assistance if you have any questions on this. My email is on the, I think it's on the ADHC website so adhc.lib.ua.edu. And I appreciate you taking out the time so thank you.