A fall hike in Springfield, Illinois’ beautiful Lincoln Memorial Garden inspired a Story Map Tour. Here are the steps I took to create the tour:
1. uploaded geotagged images to my Flickr account
2. changed the location privacy settings to public
3. went to the website storymaps.arcgis.com/ and logged in to my public account
4. clicked on “create new story”, and chose “Story Map Tour”
5. followed the step-by-step guide to create the tour

The result is a Story Book Tour of Lincoln Memorial Garden. http://arcg.is/22tNHfq

Teachers, this is definitely something to try with your students! It’s a great way to document a walk in the park, travel throughout the country or the world! Best of all it’s easy to get started.

Here are a few links for support and ideas:
1. Esri ConnectEd for a free ArcGIS Online Account for K-12 Teachers http://www.esri.com/connected
2. Story Map support and gallery of maps http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/
3. Even more map galleries and online mapping tools http://www.arcgis.com/home/

Did you know that a Story Map Tour powered by ArcGIS Online may be embedded in a website? Below is an example: