When I began messing around with MapStoryJS, I decided to do a few events that were a important to World War II and the Cold War. I found the tool itself to be fairly easy to use. You can set a title to a location and even add images to the marker to help viewers get a sense of what occurred at that location. It didn’t take long to create the 5 events that I did, but I do not see my group using this for our project at all because we are just focusing on the history of one building. I do, however, see us using TimelineJS and you will see why in a little bit.
TIMELINE
TimeLineJS took a little bit more work to complete, but I love it. You can insert the same information that could in MapStoryJS and even more. You obviously can enter the beginning and end dates of events, but if you have the exact time, you can enter that as well. Like I mentioned before, I do see our group using this for the HCC/ITCC project. We can use TimeLineJS to record and display when the planning for the building began and when the construction finally began. Creating a detailed timeline with this digital tool would be perfect for us and I’m sure we can make it detailed and informative to all future viewers.
FEEDLY
I might need to use Feedly a bit more, but I do have to say it is pretty convenient. I created a collection “Digital History Blogs” and easily added everybody to the said collection along with two other websites from the Digital Humanities Compendium.
OVERALL
I’m glad to be learning about even more digital tools, but I only see myself using only one of them for the semester long project. I imagine that some groups can use both, so I look forward to the outcome of each project.
