A series of presentations from the Hum@n Digital Humanities Project for higher education from the module on digital storytelling. The module is organised into five parts:  1. Stories, narratives and storytelling 2. Story-based learning 3. Digital storytelling  4. Tools for digital storytelling 5. Using StoryMaps
 By the end of this module, participants should be able to use storytelling in teaching, learning and research and create StoryMaps.

1. 1
Digital Storytelling for teaching
and research
Storytelling With Maps
www.digihuman.eu

2. 2
Digital Maps 1
• Digital maps are a gateway to discover the
physical and cultural world
• Maps transmit spatially-related information,
including oral or written stories about places
• Maps are useful for understanding issues and
for solving real problems
• Maps stimulate the imagination, providing
orientation to places and people (Fox, 2016).
Fox, C., 2016. The Value of Story Mapping for Coastal
Managers, Doctoral dissertation, University of Rhode Island,
http://www.edc.uri.edu/mesm/Docs/MajorPapers/Fox_2016.
pdf
Image source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:Great_Salt_Lake_Map.
jpg

3. 3
Digital Maps 2
• Maps offer a visual model that helps to
organise thoughts
• Maps help you tell a clear, compelling story
• They communicate and encourage
communication about aspects in the story
• Maps can highlight the questions and
answers that anchor a presentation
• Maps provides a clear visual reference for
identifying information gaps and exploring
potential new directions
Image source:
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1569701

4. 4
Visualisation Research (Lee et al., 2015)
• Storytelling with maps encourages visualisation as a
medium to tell compelling stories
• Story elements can be visualised to support the intended
messages
• Visualisation provides design elements that form a story
and presentation methods that are used to “tell” it
• Data visualisation contributes to communication and
information presentation
Lee, B., Riche, N.H., Isenberg, P. and Carpendale, S., 2015. More
than Telling a Story: A Closer Look at the Process of Transforming
Data into Visually Shared Stories. IEEE computer graphics and
applications, 35(5), 84-90

5. 5
Visualisation Techniques 1
• Visualisation can include
annotations as labels, pointers,
text, or narration to clearly
highlight and emphasize the
message, and to avoid ambiguity.
• Story pieces can be presented in a
meaningful order and connections
made between them to support
high-level communication.
Image Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
Social_Network_Analysis_Visualization.
png

6. 6
Visualisation Techniques 2
• Boy et al. (2015) used narrative visualisation techniques
• Information visualisation was both interactive and exploratory
• Maps used as creative tools where students prepared responses to
questions, present and share their findings.
• Making their own StoryMap helped students demonstrate their
understanding of the subject matter.
• StoryMaps can be used by students to plan, summarise, and write
their own main ideas, issues, problems, characters, setting, and plot
for a story.
Boy, J., Detienne, F. and Fekete, J.D., 2015, Storytelling in
Information Visualizations: Does it Engage Users to Explore
Data? In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1449-1458.
ACM.

7. 7
For example: the use of a photo gallery and map
encourages exploration and questioning
Image Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ecologywa/33166246473/