I just spent the last hour watching videos on StoryMap. Have you heard of it? It’s a map of Dublin with little colorful polka dots. When you click on the dots, you get videos from people – locals or historians or tour guides – telling stories about Dublin from exactly that spot! There’s a whole range of story categories, from literary to funny to historic. They give you great little bits of trivia about different places around Dublin. They’re just fantastic!
StoryMap would be a fun way to explore the city – especially since there’s an app! Just search StoryMap in iTunes or Google Play to find it. It’s about 3 euro – imagine watching these little videos while standing in the spot where they were told!
Here are a few StoryMap stories to get you started:
Ireland’s Nazi Spy / Eighty Year Old Underwear / Murder at Trinity College
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What a fabulous idea! You should make some of your own Dublin video stories! I would love to see one of these for London. So many stories floating around that city.
Hey, Thanks for the write up! Glad you’re enjoying the site. Would you have a good story yourself? Always on the lookout for new ones. Hoping to expand the site to new cities soon too, with any luck
Ah wait, just realised we’d tweeted you earlier about getting a story! Didn’t realise the link till just there, doh.
Ha that’s okay! Just putting me under more pressure to come up with a story! Think it’s a fab idea to expand to other cities – love the concept! Ill have a think over the weekend about story ideas and pop you an email if anything’s half decent!
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Oh! I saw something about this a few weeks back. Yay, what a great idea! They should do this for every city.
How fun! What a great idea!