Adapting our product to the web
After browsing through the News21 Web site, I noticed something they did that may be easy to adapt to our project.
In Data Road Trip Home, an interactive map of the U.S. featured speech bubbles popping out from places throughout the country with a statistic about each one. Clicking on the bubble leads to slide shows with audio and video clips about each topic.
In our case, instead of a map of the U.S., we could have a map of the world, with speech bubbles popping out from countries where immigrants come to Syracuse from. Clicking on the bubble could lead to an interview (perhaps with audio, photos, and video) with an immigrant from that country that features the uniquenesses of adapting to Syracuse for people from that country. The page could also have unique immigration statistics for each country such as how many immigrants arrived to Syracuse in 2007 versus how many immigrants from that country are in the rest of the U.S. and whether immigration from that country is on an up-swing or a down-swing.
I feel that this map would be a good way of putting faces as well as a local spin on the immigration topic.
-Dayelin Roman
In Data Road Trip Home, an interactive map of the U.S. featured speech bubbles popping out from places throughout the country with a statistic about each one. Clicking on the bubble leads to slide shows with audio and video clips about each topic.
In our case, instead of a map of the U.S., we could have a map of the world, with speech bubbles popping out from countries where immigrants come to Syracuse from. Clicking on the bubble could lead to an interview (perhaps with audio, photos, and video) with an immigrant from that country that features the uniquenesses of adapting to Syracuse for people from that country. The page could also have unique immigration statistics for each country such as how many immigrants arrived to Syracuse in 2007 versus how many immigrants from that country are in the rest of the U.S. and whether immigration from that country is on an up-swing or a down-swing.
I feel that this map would be a good way of putting faces as well as a local spin on the immigration topic.
-Dayelin Roman
posted by Dayelin Roman | 12:12 AM
2 Comments:
Dayelin: If you'd like to get some of the code we wrote for Data Road Trip, Jeremy Rue, a News21 Fellow and Berkeley J school grad, now works here as part of the Knight Digital Media Training group. I really liked that video interface.... we wanted to do a lot more with the data on the map, but scaled back so as not to blow our deadline.
Hi Dayelin, I was the one who programmed the map last year. If you guys decide you're interested in doing something similar in Flash, just drop me a line and I can provide you guys with some support.
I like your idea, but you might also want to consider using a Google Map mashup. Google has designed mapping software that is just so much more functional than the map we used last year. However, you can't customize the look of embedding video/photo slideshows.
So those are really your choices: Google maps with really great functionality, or a "custom" look but without the ability to click and drag around, zoom in, type addresses, etc.
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