Students can become publishers of a different kind of assignment with ArcGIS: StoryMaps. The "New" StoryMaps "makes it even easier and more intuitive to create presentations than with its "classic" platform. By making a StoryMap assignment, students can add new dimensions to data, ask and answer different kinds of questions, get into stories and visualize them geographically. StoryMaps is just one of many different web apps that ArcGIS provides freely; there are also hundreds of lesson plans and tutorials created by the ArcGIS community as well as projects published in the community Gallery.
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Choose "Create Public Account"-"When registering on the next page, this option is at the bottom center of the page.
Create a StoryMap presentation on a religious icon or object associated with Silk Road history or culture. Discuss the development of the religion with which the object is associated. Show multiple depictions of the object which may come from different times, places, and cultural points of view. Look for multimedia: videos illustrating rituals, for example, as well as images. Create your own artwork of the religious object, either as a drawing, painting, sculpture, video, or digital art object. Add demographic data on a StoryMap either by importing an CSV table or creating illustrated, annotated pins. Accompany every source you bring in, whatever its medium, with an original written explanation of at least 50 words.
Fasting Buddha Shakyamuni 3rd–5th century Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara). Metropolitan Museum of Art
Unless otherwise noted this Open Educational Resource (OER) ARTD 3015: The Development of the Silk Road was created and curated by Professor Anna Carrollfor Spring 2022 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Some documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader. )
