For this month, I learned to use StoryMapsJS. This meant completing the basic Vivero tutorial and a more advanced Programming Historian tutorial. I found the basic tutorial to be highly instructive and, because StoryMapsJS does not have a super high number of options for what to do, I think it taught me most of what there is to do with the tool. I chose to make my tutorial StoryMap about 3 locations important to my life and was happy with the result. The advanced tutorial had to do with “georeferencing,” where an image of a map is coded to have the whole thing usable as a stand in for the default map on StoryMapJS. This required using the third party service mapwarper.net to get a map of North and South Carolina, which was used to make a StoryMap about different locations in North and South Carolina. Though I expect if I were to do a StoryMap for my Vivero project it would be ArcGIS, the idea of georeferencing could be applicable to some things we do. Some of W.E.B. Du Bois’ data visualizations use maps, and for either those or our adaptations, it could be good to have a georeferenced map, and I would not have considered this as a possibility without doing this training.

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