Welcome & introductions, quick spatial orientation (that is, where are the bathrooms?)
Game plan for the summer
- When are we meeting? What to do in between?
- What are the deliverables?
Quick tour of the technology
- Your technological friends: ArcGIS Online, Story Maps
- Your technological acquaintances: Collector app, Community Analyst tool. (We'll see these but probably won't go hands-on with them)
- And can everyone get logged into their own technological home base?
- b21.maps.arcgis.com
- canes.maps.arcgis.com
- kutztown.maps.arcgis.com
- (and if none of those work for you, use a personal account – sign up for one here: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/create-account)
Quick tour of Esri's GeoInquiries–if this is your first time with this stuff, it's a good place to start!
- What are GeoInquiries? "[S]hort, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model and can be presented quickly from a single computer and projector or modified for students’ hands-on engagement. Collections of 15-20 activities per topic complement your curriculum throughout the year."
- See the full menu of GeoInquiries, or see...
- Selected GeoInquiry: Climate change
And an example of a teacher-created map and dataset, using US geography
- Dataset #1: 13 colonies
- Dataset #2: states 14-26
- Map of all 50 states
So who wants to make a map?? Let's do this!!
- First, let's annotate a map, via 'Map Notes'. Make a map that shows 'Your Happy Place' – add a placemark, add a polygon, add a line, add a label (text)
- Save your map!
- If you wish, share your map
- Save your map!
- Next, add someone else's data: Add > Search for Layers > ArcGIS Online
- Finally, add some custom data: Download this spreadsheet and then Add > Add Layer from File