Latest Contributions by JaniceElvidge

Thank You!  I am so glad to have a link to describe the management of files so we can have different people working on parts that all fit together!!!! I think that The River Mile will need an account so teachers can maintain logins so they can stay engaged in a project together.  I believe that the teaching side of it is taken care of just fine.  One thing though that would help me is that in the NPS Subscription account I am only a user/publisher and so I am not able to help teachers understand how to manage their Org accounts.  Teachers at both of our trainings this summer all expressed the same need: how do I manage the account, how do I let students work in it and how do I manage the different users.  As I can not see any administrative side of an Org I am unable to help them.  We had 13 or so engaged educators this summer.  One school district had me train 4 of their teachers as a group.  They worked well and began brainstorming ways they can alter their teaching to utilize AGOL.  I felt that they really "got" it. I would love to chat via email about how The River Mile Network can utilize an Org account to work with educators!  I have also come to the conclusion that I need a full time GIS person, now all I have to do is convince the NPS to give me that position (I'm not going to hold my breath). ... View more

Charlie, Would this be useful for The River Mile?  www.therivermile.org  We are teaching teachers, students and informal educators how to use AGOL in the Columbia River Watershed to share what they learn about the watershed.  I've been using the NPS subscription account, but we can not use it to teach.  I can store the data collection, share it and create the apps and forms for collecting data, but am running into a few snags.  For one, if an intern creates forms for me those forms disappear when they leave and they are removed from the org.  I'm just finding that piecing things together is making harder to deal with.  Any suggestions? We conducted 2 teacher trainings this summer for 11 teachers and they got excited by the possibilities. Janice  ... View more

I checked out that link, and it confirms that only people in an org can be part of any group. And only orgs can create groups.  So its org to org. Janice ... View more

Thanks! I do not know that I have administrators rights in the National Park Service subscription account.  I suspect not. But I might be able to get someone to do it for me.  Many of our GIS people have volunteered to help out with our projects and this just might be the opportunity. ... View more

Thanks Amy, I'll try that.  I'm still a little confused as to what a developer account is and how it differs from a subscription account. Janice ... View more

Good to know!  Thanks! ... View more

I've started using data collection, either by iNaturalist or AGOL, as part of a field investigation in teacher training.  We lead them through how to conduct and then develop field investigations and use both paper and digital data collection from the beginning.  We then show them their data.  If they take the "advanced" class the next day we teach them how to use the program and look at, display and analyze the data. We've found that by not telling them that they are going to do ArcGIS and just embedding it in the training they don't freak out! ... View more

What if I am working in one org (The National Park Service) and those that are part of my project are teachers that 1) don't have an org account yet or 2) wont have access to any org account because they are in an organization that will never be able to purchase an org account, and we are all working on one project with is hosted by the NPS is there a way to create a "group" for AGOL that includes all of them? ... View more

The link to the online Teaching with GIS training doesn't look like it is working. Is it just too soon? ... View more

Did either of you get an answer to this?  I'm having the same problems with ArcGIS Explorer On-line.  Everything looks OK, but nothing shows up. ... View more