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TimeMapper Assignment

Overview

This assignment is about investigating a series of events to show and explore how they are connected in chronological time and geographical space. You will curate data about a series of at least ten related events on a topic of your choice, with information describing the events, images and/or multimedia and links to share details for further reading. For your events to function in a visual timeline and map, you will need to include accurate and carefully formatted dates and geographic coordinates. Work with Google Sheets and the TimeMapper visualization software.

What you need to begin

Suggested Topics

Your task is to curate a selection of at least ten related events on a topic of your interest relating to the founding of universities, or to some form of arts or technology, that involves events happening in multiple locations that would be interesting to plot in time and space. Here are some suggested topics for your TimeMap:

Building a good TimeMap requires patient curation of information and careful writing in the Google Sheets template, as well as careful testing and reviewing of the visualization in TimeMapper on the web. This is a challenge involving mindful curation of data and responsible media production.

Assignment requirements

Once you have properly connected your Google Sheet to the TimeMapper, you are ready to develop your entries. Keep my template entries in place until you are able to successfully publish your own entries. Once those appear on the web view of your TimeMapper, you should delete my sample entries and continue developing your own. Do not leave blank lines in your Google Sheet as that will result in entries not displaying. Be watchful for problems with sequencing events on the TimeMapper view and see if you need to modify your approach to formatting the dates. Copy and paste my formula for plotting geographic data and pinning markers to the map. We will work together over the course of this assignment to troubleshoot display issues for images, sequencing, and mapping.

Supply at least five entries on your TimeMapper to complete this assignment. Your entries must:

You will have to do a fair amount of troubleshooting to display images and captions and links as you wish on your TimeMapper. Reach out to me for help, and make me a co-editor on your Google Sheet in case you want my help to correct something that is not working properly.

Submitting the TimeMap

Post a web link or embed code for your TimeMap on one of the websites you have developed for this class, and submit a website link featuring your Timemap on Canvas to complete this assignment.

Happy TimeMapping! I hope you will produce a curated web exhibit that you are proud to share for this assignment.