Writing 211: Science in World and Word
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1510 St. Olaf Avenue
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
I have StoryMap questions!
Do you need any help or experiencing any tech issues with your StoryMap project? Contact Sara Lynnore (sara@stolaf.edu) to book an appointment!
- Sara Lynnore (sara@stolaf.edu)
- Office: RML 477 - IT Department
Accessing ArcGIS Online & StoryMaps
You should receive an email notification to activate your St. Olaf ArcGIS account! Clicking the link will automatically activate your account and log you in - if you do not receive an email you may have an account already or the notification may have been sent to your spam email box. Contact Sara Lynnore (sara@stolaf.edu) to have the invite resent.
Make sure to log into https://stolaf.maps.arcgis.com/. There should be a St. Olaf College banner that appears on the homepage.
It is recommended to use Chrome - Safari will occasionally cause some errors.
Creating a StoryMap Project
Check out this YouTube playlist on the DiSCO channel for different ideas on how to create StoryMaps!
- Table of ContentsMake your project easier to navigate by adding a table of contents!
Finished with your project? Submit the Story Map!
When finished with your Story Map, make sure to click on the Publish button on the top right in order to share the link. You can publish the project at anytime and keep working on it - it will sync changes.
Share it to the group "Writing 211, Spring 2025: Science in World and Word"
For share settings, make sure to select "Public" and set as unlisted! If you are not comfortable with making the project public for any reason, share it as "Organization" only
Examples
Looking for examples? Explore some examples hosted on the ArcGIS StoryMaps gallery.
- Sara's Demo ExamplesDemo projects that Sara Lynnore has created for past classes - see something in one of these projects that you want to try, but not sure how to set it up? Let me know and I'm glad to help!
- Marie Tharp's Seafloor: A Story Map for Marie Tharp's 100th birthday - by Dr Vicki FerriniExplore the story of Marie Tharp - the woman who created the first illustrated map of the ocean floor.
- How Deep is Challenger Deep? - John NelsonUnderstanding the depth of ocean trenches
- Library deserts - ESRI's StoryMaps team"Libraries are oases of resources – but lack of access to them can leave communities high and dry" - description from ESRI
- The lines that shape our cities"Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s" - created by a collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, The Science Museum of Virginia , and Esri.