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Adding to your multimedia toolbox: Three (or more) easy-to-use, open-source tools for storytellers

This is for a Workshop in the category for a Intermediate audience.

We’ll cover three free, open-source tools to help journalists tell stories, including: StoryMapJS, TimelineJS, and SoundCiteJS. These tools help journalists tell map-based narratives, build timelines, and elegantly add audio to stories.

The session is designed to take attendees through the basics of using and deploying each tool and into more advanced lessons including modifications, best practices and troubleshooting.

Bring a laptop if you’d like to follow along or start work on projects of your own.

How does your submission contribute to the diversity of the conference?

Sessions at ONA can be abstract or require additional study on the part of attendees. This session will give journalists new ideas and tools that they can use right away in their work. The session will also focus on intermediate multimedia storytellers and will focus on inspiring them to try new technologies and go beyond merely using technology to manipulating it to suite their needs. We think that these tools are a doorway through which users can begin to learn more about how the web works and how different technologies work together. Very few sessions at ONA tend to be hands on and ask attendees to follow along on their own machines.

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Ryan Graff | @rcgraff

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