My name is Camryn Henderson and I am a freshman from Wadsworth, OH. I am an ENVS and Theater double major with a PG minor. I took GEOG 291 in the first half of the semester and am excited to expand my GIS knowledge.
In 291 I looked a little bit into my ArcGIS online account but I looked more in depth this week. One interesting thing I found was the different categories in the Training section. There are numerous different programs to help familiarize you with ArcGIS which I think will be very helpful for the rest of the semester. The other interesting thing was the ArcGIS blog which has many articles discussing updates and different things you can do with ArcGIS.
One really cool thing I learned from the Introduction page was all of the different ways you can share your work. You can create notebooks, and web apps, and collaborate with other users to make something together. The other cool thing is that once you are a member of ArcGIS online you are able to communicate with other members and all of your work will be saved in a cloud.
During the course one thing I had not known about was what all of the different app builders that you can use. I was able to learn how to use Instant App which allowed me to quickly make my map an interactive web map. Another interesting thing I learned in the course was about the different levels of sharing you can have for a map. Private, Group, Organization and Public all provide different levels of privacy for a map and are used for different things.
Two courses I find interesting were “Collect Data in the Field using ArcGIS apps” and “ArcGIS Online Fundamentals”
The first map I found was about the migration patterns of Great White Sharks off the coast of Australia. They tracked sharks using GPS and the heat map technique to show where most Great Whites tend to reside during their migration period.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=c7463757611446ee8867c8fb6b028a9b
The second map was about criminal activity (specifically burglary) in a county in Florida. The yellows and reds indicate a higher amount of burglary than the blue areas. I found this on a website that gave a tutorial on how to best symbolize criminal activity on GIS maps.
https://www.napsgfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Tutorial-3_Crime_Mapping_Final_PostNGPS-1.pdf