Digital Storytelling

Step-by-step guide

Storytelling Platforms

step 1

Where do you want to create your story?

Atavist

Great for text-focused, multi-chapter projects that have a linear progression from beginning to end.

Ideal for translating a traditional paper into a digital, multimedia work.

Go to Atavist

Wix

Great for projects that do not have a linear progression: allows your user to navigate to their preferred content.

Ideal for projects that has multiple avenues content or topics.

Go to Wix

Spark

Great for short, linear stories that have a lot of visuals. Spark offers a gallery of ready-to-use images to bring your story to life.

Ideal for smaller, visual projects. Cannot embed interactive content.

Go to Spark

step 2

What content do you want to embed in your story?

step 2

What content do you want to embed in your story?

StoryMap

Create a story around geographic points and enhance it with uploaded images, embed video and audio, and link out to content on the web.

Need a gmail address to set up an account.

StoryMap JS

Timeline

Create a chronological story and enhance it with public social media content, youtube videos, images, and audio content.

Can only include content that is already published online.

Timeline JS

Infographic

Connect your story to larger trends with data visualization or an infographic to visually communicate complex data. Piktochart gives you beautiful templates and icons and images.

Does not offer collaboration features.

Piktochart

step 3

Embedding your interactive content into your story.

Get your embed code

Find "Share" Option

StoryMap JS

Piktochart

Timeline JS

Add it to your story

Wix Embed 1

Go to the + option and select "More" at the very bottom.

Then select the "HTML iframe" to add to your page.

Content Tools

Resources

Platforms

Atavist
Adobe Spark

Visuals

Canva
Piktochart

WEbsites

Wix
Weebly

Interactive

StoryMap JS
Timeline JS