For your final assignment you will be building an ESRI StoryMap based on the portion of the travel narrative that you chose here.
Assignment #2 has already been completed in which you build a "shortest path" vector between the geo-locatable points on the itinerary of your traveller.
Detailed technical instructions can be found for the final assignment in drive here.
Here are requirements for content of the StoryMap:
make sure that you import the map with the segments as reflected in your dataset from Assignment #2
you should have several views (at least 3) of the map (different zoom levels, for example) at different points of your StoryMap that help you tell the story of that traveller
it should contain images (suggestions for images without rights are given below) for which references are given
Images do not need to be of the very same moment in time and places, but should as accurately as possible reflect the issue at hand (think of Nada's comments here)
it should contain selected quotes from the book that help us enter the world through the travelers eyes
it should describe and contextualize the travel through some information about the author and about the places mentioned
it can have a small bibliography if you are referring to any academic materials that are not openly available on the web (if open, then use an embedded link)
it should have about 8-10 chunks with images, text and maps.
Once you complete your StoryMap, you will make a page in your Site that links to it. On that page you should explain what were some of the (technical, topical, etc.) challenges of making the StoryMap for historical information. You can think of this as a short write up of your short video. In this short write up, it would be useful to refer to some of the readings/exercise so far this semester (on maps lying, on openness, on geocriticism, etc.).
Please finish the StoryMap and the short write up on your blog by 5 December, 1200.
You do not need to make your StoryMap be a term paper:
it will make a "light argument" but doesn't have to have a strict argumentative nature of a paper
it does not have to follow the travel linearly through space
it does not have to discuss all of the stops of the travelers
it can contain your own opinion about this era of colonial travel
it can refer to any of the theoretical readings we had
Some suggestions for images:
Wikimedia Commons
NYPL Middle East in Early Prints
QDL (search for place + "print" or "photography" or "drawing")
Other open sites listed at our "stack" page