Live workshop presented April 2025

ArcGIS StoryMaps is a freemium model cloud-based platform for creating and sharing engaging, interactive, multimedia stories online. Weave images, video, maps, and timelines into your ancestor stories. No coding skills needed! After exploring some StoryMaps created by the instructor, we will walk through the platform interface; how to add, format, and rearrange content; and how to preview and publish your stories. We will also discuss best practices for planning your StoryMaps. Participants will have access to sandbox content provided by the instructor so they can focus on learning and test driving the platform while replicating one of her stories. They are encouraged to watch the live workshop and then watch the recordings later while using the sandbox content to build out the sandbox story in a free public ArcGIS Online account.

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at California State University, Fullerton, and teaches an online graduate-level genealogical research methods and librarianship course for San Jose State University. Colleen is a nationally recognized speaker and educator specializing in methodology, Mexican & Hispanic research, libraries and archives, and technology. She incorporates digital storytelling into all areas of her professional work and genealogy research.