VT Shootings Multimedia

The Victims
The New York Times did an excellent job with this multimedia piece, in my opinion. You can see the names, years, and faces of the students and professors that lost their lives on Monday. There is a feature that divides the victims into their locations when they were killed. What I really liked is that upon clicking a picture of a victim, you can see where they are from and readers' comments about that person. Furthermore, there are links to each person's own news page. I really liked the layout of this multimedia presentation; I have seen other websites addressing all of the victims in some sort of presentation, but this one exceeds all of the others. The individual news pages pop up in separate windows, and it might have been better to just keep it in the same window. However, it is quite convenient if you are viewing more than one personal page at a time.

The Sequence of Events
I picked this multimedia presentation because I couldn't find anything else other than slideshows and pre-made TV packages; the only audio slide show I saw would not load fully. Anyway, I think this is a pretty nifty map to show what happened in the span of just six hours on Monday morning. It is very simple and easy to read, and it shows the different emails sent to VT students as events happened. I like that the background used is an actual photograph. However, I feel like this map is missing something--I just don't know what. Overall, it's a nice, little summary of Monday morning's chain of events on campus.