Intro to StoryMaps: World 1
Introduction
For this week’s Project, you’ll build a StoryMap using ArcGIS. ArcGIS is the industry standard for GIS. StoryMaps let us put images, maps, and text together to explain the past.
Learning Goals
- Create an account with ArcGIS and successfully navigate within its interface.
- Chose an image of a historical object from a credible museum site related to Mauryan or Hellenistic periods.
- Incorporate your chosen image along with a created map, citation, and explanation of the historical significance of the item into a StoryMap.
Resources
Chose an object from the following sources that relate to the Mauryan and Hellenistic Periods.
British Museum Mauryan Collection
British Museum Hellenistic Period Collection
Met Museum Mauryan Collection
National Museum of Greece Hellenistic Period
National Museum of New Dehli: Caution- collection sorted by art type, not period
1. Navigate to storymaps.arcgis.com
To create an account, click “Sign In”
2. Create Public Account
I encourage you NOT to use an existing account, unless you are familiar witht privacy policies of your third-party account, such as Facebook, Google, or Apple.
You can use whatever username and email you wish.
Some students have encountered an error message at this point that too many people are attempting to sign up. This was likely only an issue as an entire in-person class tried at once, but please give yourself time to get an account before you need to work on it.
3. Create a new story.
You can “Start from Scratch,” or use one of the other formats (Sidecar, Guided Map Tour, Explorer Map Tour). All students have the same requirements (Image, map, citation, text) so the formatting is up to you.
Most students chose to Start from scratch. (1)
If you want to see example of other StoryMaps, you can “Explore Stories” (2)
Tutorials on using StoryMaps are also available (3)
4. Starting from Scratch
This is your title page.
To add elements, click the plus sign “+”
5. Options for adding elements
The “Text,” “Map,” and “Image” elements are the three you’ll need to complete the assignment.
6. When done with your StoryMap, be sure to Publish it to Everyone
7. Copy Link and paste in your Assignment File under “Project GIS”
The StoryMap will be public. If you are comfortable, please put your name on the work in some fashion, such as J. Norton or Jack. N. If you are not comfortable with your name on the open web and chose a pseudonym, please email me your pseudonym . I will have your link in your Assignment file, but it’s much easier knowing who created a produce if their name (of any sort) is on it.
Your copied link should look like https://arc.gis/GADF534
If the link you share is long, such as https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0a4f361cf76b4f348a4cd3106f4d7e31, you’ve not published it yet. Only “Copy Link” will give you a shareable link. Do NOT copy the link from address bar.
8. Post link to you Assignment file
9. Requirement of assignment
- MapStory should include one image of a historical object from either the Mauryan or Hellenistic period.
- MapStory should include one map with a dropped pin, or border around a region establishing the spatial location of your object.
- MapStory should include a citation for the origin of the object and note that the “Image used here is for educational purposes only.”
- MapStory should include a paragraph on what you believe is the historical significance of your object, with a clear reference to some other secondary source, such as this week’s reading or metadata supplied on the museum website about your object. [Hint: that fact that an object survived is never its historical significance.]