Helping Hints for ArcGIS Online Competition

CharlieFitzpatrick — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:07:16 GMT

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:

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

Presentations

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

Web Apps

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

Story Maps

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

Re: Helping Hints for ArcGIS Online Competition

CharlieFitzpatrick — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:55:31 GMT

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!

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