It is understood that Storytelling is embedded in our everyday lives. Via narration, we are able to communicate with each other, share our views and understanding of the world as well as obtain new knowledge. The power of maps has already been acknowledged as a way to connect people, places, and ideas. Maps provide an overview of a certain topic or phenomenon via the visualization of geolocated data and information. This enables us in a user-friendly way to reason about what we see on the map, ask the right questions, gain new knowledge, and finally take action.
This is of high importance in the educational sector where the main goal is to teach students how to learn, meaning how to transform observations and data from their environment to new knowledge. By using map storytelling in the classroom, teachers and students benefit to the fullest from the advantages of narration, geo-located information and visualization facilitating the “connection of the dots” of the learning material in an interactive and playful manner.
The goal of this course is to provide hands-on training of the Storymaps online service that can be used for creating Map-Storytelling projects in the classroom.
