Helping Hints for ArcGIS Online Competition

CharlieFitzpatrick

Entries to the ArcGIS Online Competition for US HS+MS need to be either "presentations," "web apps," or "story maps." There are various pointers to each of these, and more all the time. As I encounter more, I will add to this list, and encourage you to reply to this post with other publicly visible helping hints.

General:

1. Story Map on SmartMapping: How to Smart Map
2. Discussion with examples of how to make decisions about color in a map: How to SmartMap: Color

Presentations

1. AGO Help Doc: Create presentations—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS 
2. Good visual example in a blog: Create a Presentation With Your Map | ArcGIS Blog 
3. Example Presentation: http://esriurl.com/recentquakespres 

Web Apps

1. AGO Help Doc: Create apps from maps—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS 
2. Get Started with Apps: Getting started with Apps, from ArcGIS Online Help
3. Web AppBuilder: Build powerful apps, from ArcGIS Online Help
4. Example Web App: http://esriurl.com/recentquakesapp

Story Maps

1. AGO Help Doc: Choose a configurable app—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS 
2. Story Maps "Apps" page: Apps | Story Maps 
3. Designing Story Maps to Change Hearts & Minds booklet: http://esriurl.com/StoryMapBooklet
4. Updated collection of earlier blog post with story maps showing analysis: Esri Insider blog post by Dawn Wright
5. Guidelines on using photos: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2017/02/17/photo-guidelines-for-arcgis-online-maps-including-story-maps 
6. Ten Things you can do with Story Maps: Esri ArcGIS blog post by Bernie Szukalski
7. Ten ways to improve your chances of winning a Story Map contest: Esri ArcGIS blog post by Bernie Szukalski

CharlieFitzpatrick

I just added a new section "General" to this discussion because there are some excellent guides for making good maps in the first place, the raw materials to be turned into presentations or apps or story maps. Exploration encouraged!