1. Multidimensional Story Telling

2. Meograph Create multimedia stories  http://www.meograph.com/channel4kvwm/13/t rayvon-martin-case http://www.meograph.com/channel4kvwm/13/t rayvon-martin-case

3. Visual.ly Create free infographics and data visualizations. http://visual.ly/crime- unpunishment-why-journalists- fear-their-safety

4. OpenStreetMaps + MapBox  http://mapbox.com http://mapbox.com  Download TillMill application http://mapbox.com/tilemill http://mapbox.com/tilemill  Example from WNYC Example from WNYC  www.OpenStreetMaps.org www.OpenStreetMaps.org

5. Fusion Tables + Shape Escape Fusion Tables  Google.com/fusiontables  http://www.shpescape.com http://www.shpescape.com Google Docs  Access from Google Drive  https://drive.google.com https://drive.google.com

6. Shapefile? KML?  Shapefile is a geospatial vector format in geographic information systems (GIS) software. The shapefile is a collection of files that stores geometrical data in the forms of points, lines and polygon.  In English: File types for Geographical/mapping data.  ONLY works with Latitude/ Longitude, wkt and geojson columns  If you have all day: http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~sdalhelp/docs/ht_xls_to_shp.pdf http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~sdalhelp/docs/ht_xls_to_shp.pdf  If you have two minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2awFra5Gk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2awFra5Gk