The CLEAR Geospatial Training Program (GTP) has just launched a brand new workshop! It is called Introduction to ArcGIS Online and Esri Story Maps and includes presentations, demos, hands-on exploration and hands-on exercises. The morning of the day-long workshop covers ArcGIS Online and the web map in particular. Topics include:

• Introduction to GIS and ArcGIS Online
• The ArcGIS Online Web Map
  • Getting started
  • Adding and working with data in the web map
  • Sharing and printing

The afternoon of the workshop is all about Story Maps. Topics include:

• What is a Story Map
• How Story Maps work
• Building a Story Map Journal
• Building a Story Map Tour

By the end of the day, students create a Story Map Journal called The Connecticut Valley Railroad: Then and Now. It is about the history of the railroad whose tracks and historic stations exist in the backyard of the Middlesex County Extension Center in Haddam where the workshop is held. The Story Map Tour, Stations of the Historic Connecticut Valley Railway, is a tour of a few of the historic stations along the railroad. Read more…