WGST/ES 328: Seminar: Naturecultures: Feminist Futures & Environmental Justice

What is a StoryMap?

StoryMaps is a web-based application within ArcGIS Online that allows you to build an interactive multimedia narrative.

The StoryMaps application is available to the Wellesley College community, you can access it by these two ways:

1. Go to Wellesley ArcGIS Online (https://wellesley.maps.arcgis.com/). Click on the blue Wellesley College button, and use your Duo single sign-on credentials. Once you are on the Home page, click on the View More icon (), then in the expanded drop-down, go to ArcGIS StoryMaps 
2. Go to https://storymaps.arcgis.com/ then use your sign-in credentials

Explore StoryMaps

Start with: the Fauna of Wellesley example

The following are public examples from the Esri StoryMaps Gallery. 

Example StoryMaps

Where the Wild Things Were	Off The Shelves	The Bare Earth
Washington's Ice Age Floods	Grace and Delight	Pancakes & Silver
Library Deserts	Tuscon Equity Priority Index	America's Mental Health Crisis, Mapped

• What works for you, what doesn’t? Why? 
• What features do you see and what narrative function do they have?
• What are some creative ways these storymaps share complex information or many variables?
• What’s one feature you see that you can imagine using right away and how?

Here is the collection of in-depth tutorials and guides by the Esri StoryMaps Team. Be sure to check out the Resources page for additional content.