Hello World.
I am updating today to let you know of a little project I was assigned.
My Century America Professors asked me to play around with and create a digital story using either Google map from the Google Map App or a time-line template off of Google drive.
I had created a time-line based off of events in my life. Since I already had the pictures in the public domain anyway on Facebook; I didn’t feel weird about sharing them again. Besides, looking back is always a wonderful thing to do when you’re a college kid and a historian in the making.
However, I had loads of trouble trying to get the pictures to be the right pixel size for the template and I couldn’t get them into the media thumbnail column at all.
Eventually, realizing that I am not a technologically advanced person, I put that aside to be messed with later on.
(I will be asking my IT department to help me out when it comes time to make a time-line for the website so I don’t end up in a world of hurt).
Instead of the time-line, I published a map. It’s of places that I’ve lived so far during my life. There aren’t any pictures, as I didn’t want to use any from the public domain without permission and I didn’t have any pictures on hand, but there is a line connecting the places in order of how I visited them.
I don’t think I’ll be using a map on my website, but the practising was loads of fun and who knows? I may need to know how to use Google Maps for some other kind of project.
Here is the link to my sad pitiful map.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zuZlWrQ3CGIw.k4H9e0ylptUU
Let me know if there is any changes or corrections that should be made.
Thanks.
-Victoria
Your timeline link doesn’t show up in your post, Victoria…just an FYI!
I know. I ended up having to do a map instead so I removed the link. I just edited my post and republished if you want to take a look though. Thank you so much for the warning.
Your map isn’t pitiful at all! I appreciated the fact that clicking on each location brought up information about when you lived there. Nice job.
Thank you. I didn’t get to spend as long on the map as I would have liked, since I struggled on my aborted timeline for so long. But the practice was fun when I got around to it.