1. Adventures with Story Maps
&
Using the ‘Collector for ArcGIS’ App
Garry Simmons
Head of Geography, Wilmington Grammar
School for Girls, Dartford, Kent
@garrysimmons @GeoWilmington
2. • Three ways of thinking about story maps
• Progression with story maps
• Reflections on using story maps
3. Story Maps as resource
• For discovering about new places.
• For exploring places.
• For contrasting different places
• For developing aerial photography
interpretation skills.
• For helping students to remember fieldwork.
10. Story Maps as adventure
• What’s next?
• Local area story map.
– Use the Snap2map app?
– Use a map tour
– “How diverse is my local area?” Create a walking,
cycle or road route to visit at least 5 sites in your
local area to show how diverse your place is.
– Diversity could be seen in land use, housing type,
wealth of local people, environmental quality.
12. Progression with Story Maps
• Web maps
– Basic aerial photography
– Using ‘map notes ‘symbols in web maps
– Using CSV layers to managing symbols and labels
more easily.
• Story Maps
– Map Tour
– Map Journal
– Map Journal with embedded multimedia, multiple
web maps and pop-ups
13. Reflections: Story Maps as resource
• Positives
– Interactive way of presenting GI
– Works on any device but best with iPad or PC
sized screen.
– Easy to embed material and photos to create a
multimedia experience.
– Web-based so can reach a wide audience. No disc
installation needed.
• Challenges experienced
– Cannot use measuring tools in the underlying web
map.
14. Reflections: Story Maps as student activity
• Positives
– Builds new ICT skills in a fun way.
– Improved locational knowledge
• Challenges experienced
– Students lost work if their edits were not saved
properly.
– Map Journal is moderately advanced and requires
practice to master.
– Including images to a Map Journal requires access to
web based photo storage such as OneDrive/Dropbox
– Fiddly apps? Snap2map needs practice and a 3G data
connection.
15. Any questions or ideas?
• Resource: Which topics/places would you
create a story map for?
• Student activity: For which topics/places
would you want your students to make a story
map?
• Please share your ideas!
24. Reflections on using the Collector App
• Positives
– Students used their own devices to upload data.
• Challenges experienced
– Students struggled to log in to their ArcGIS Online
account. Stressful for teacher! Ideally have an ICT
technician to help you.
– Highly complex to set up the Collector App.
– Students could have recorded site coordinates and
data on paper and entered into a CSV file.