Explore different ways to collect your anecdotal stories
Understand the types of intangible heritage captured through these methods
Look at how digital applications can help share both our tangible and intangible heritage
As you open the map, you will be welcomed by a screen. Click "Get Started". You can choose to become a member or not depending on how you feel. Click "Ok". You may choose to sign up with Email, Facebook, Twitter or Google or click "not now". Next you will need to allow notifications, analytics data and state whether you are older than 16. To do this click on the boxes. You will then be asked if you would like push notifications. Click "Notify Me". Then you will be in!
Once you have clicked on Map, you can choose to read local stories, look at written extracts about Ashwell or choose other. To begin with all will be open, however if you would only like one of them click on the other two to ensure that this is the one available. If you would like to search for a particular story, please click the magnifying glass and then search. Type in the place you would like to look for. As you type, the points on the map will be reduced leaving the ones which match what you are looking for. You can then click on the point and then the black box that appears. This will tell you a story of that particular place. You can add comments by clicking "Post comments". Please be aware innapropriate comments will be removed. To go back to the map, please click the arrow in the top lef hand corner. You can also have a list of places by clicking the four lines in the top right hand corner and click on one of the options listed.
If you feel there is a story missing, please click on "Add Site". A form will then appear and you can type in the name of the site, where it is and the story that you associate with the site. To add the site, click the "add" button. This will load a message saying success. Click "back" and then in the top left hand corner click the arrow back. The story will be sent to me so I can make sure that it is appropriate for all users.
To navigate yourself to a particular place, you can choose the "Sites" button. Cick on this, and a list of many sites will appear. Choose the site you are interested in or press down and hold with one finger and move the other up or down to get more places. Click on the site. If you are on a computer or laptop, a message will appear saying "open in maps". If on a phone a map will load and it will take you to the site.
If you would like to provide me with some feedback about how you feel about the project, click the "Feedback" button. This will load up a form. Answer the questions in the form. The majority are multiple choice, so please click on the answer you agree with. For example, for the question "Overall, do you like the app?" and the answer was yes, click "yes", alternatively click "no". There are two questions which ask for you to type. These are "If yes, what feature would it be?" and "Any other comments?". for these click on the box underneath the question and type your answer. To send the form to me, please click on any other comments.
To find out who helped me create the project, please click on "In collaboration with". Here it will give you a list of "Ashwell Museum", "St. Mary's Church" and "University of York Archaeology Department". If you click on one of these, it will allow you to contact them and find out when they are open. To go back, click on the arrow in the top left hand corner, and again to go back to the Homepage. Alternatively to share, please click on "Share". This will take you to either the Facebook page or the Twitter page of Ashwell Museum. Clicking on one of these will take you to the Social Media page.
