1. ESRI Story Map Tutorial
Communicating Your Science Stories
ESRI Story Map Tutorial

2. Overview of Story Map Steps
Make free ESRI account
Set goals for your story – what are you communicating?
Choose appropriate format
Divide your message into logical segments
Make an ArcGIS map online (can be blank)
Fill in content of story map
Make public, share, embed
* For ucsc.arcmap.com story maps, discuss with lab web manager about group esri account to reduce number of users

3. Set goals for your message
Personal webpage
Research experiment and results
Communicate scientific concept
Highlight important locations

4. Choose a format for your message

5. Divide your message into logical segments
Lab webpage
General
1st, 2nd, 3rd chapters
Contact
Publications
Research story or blog
Problem or purpose
What you did
What’s happening, where
Implications for society
More examples
For lab webpage, logical sections would be the major chapters of your research
For presenting a research story, you could follow the outline of the message box

6. Gather image & video for segments
Upload media to Wordpress, Youtube, etc.
ESRI will not host your media with free account. Only displays media via links.

7. Make an ArcGIS map online
Each StoryMap based around an online map (but you don’t have to use it)
Can use >1 map
Map tips
CSV or zipped shapefile only
(no raster files)
Make separate layers for display vs analysis
Logical column names
Withdraw sensitive info
Present only relevant details for callout boxes

8. Build your StoryMap Create segments Set map actions Fill segments
Customize header logos
Publish and share
Embed in your UCSC webpage!

9. Embed in webpage using iframes
Install iframes plugin on your WordPress account
Embed link to StoryMap:
[iframe src=“link” width = “x_pixels” height = “y_pixels”]
Set dimensions to work on phone and laptop screens
Must install iframes plugin on your wordpress account one time
Embed link using the following

10. More Information ESRI has many StoryMap tutorials Gallery of StoryMaps
More advanced formats
More advanced mapping
Gallery of StoryMaps
Browse by format
Browse by topic
Browse by contest winners
ArcGIS online map tutorial
Content and style for map
Manipulate layers
Callouts and popups