Journal Entry #3

My final project is becoming clearer and clearer to me.  As of my last Design Journal post, I had decided to do my project on lesser known events in history.  Here were my 3 ideas that I planned on:

·                  Abraham Linclon and John Wilkes Booth are in the same photo at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration.

·                  George Washington technically isn’t the first U.S. President, he’s actually the 9^th.

·                  Thieves tried to steal Lincoln’s body on election night in 1876 and hold it for ransom.  What happened to Lincoln’s body after that is pretty fascinating.

Originally I planned on including all three of these events in my project, but I realized it would probably be best to narrow it down to one event.  This would allow me to really go in-depth on that one topic.  Sheng-Shiang Tseng suggested the grave robbers and Lincoln story.  I agree that this might be the most interesting story that could be well told using Articulate Storyline. 

As far as the progress with my final project, I’m planning and laying out the story on paper.  There are a number of interesting characters in this story, including a gang of Chicago counterfeiters and a double agent that infiltrated the gang, that could each have their own path in Storyline.  I think re-living the attempted grave robbery from the perspective of each of these characters would be interesting    For my research, I’m using a documentary on the attempted grave robbing of Lincoln and have also read about it online.  Jennifer Colwell also said she bought the book and said that it seemed interesting to her.  I’m still learning the functions of Storyline and plan on starting  my project since I’m more comfortable with using the software.