Author: Emilia Blechschmidt

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    Link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ebfde8e27c5c42339afad23295731bed  This experience has taught me a lot over the past eight weeks. Learning how to conduct research on my own has been a huge learning experience. In my previous research, it has been more of a lit review or guided by the professor(s). However, in this project, I had to make decisions on…

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    During the presentation I spent a lot of time rambling. You can see in the video I repeated a lot of things or had to take time to think of what I wanted to say next. I also said “um” a lot in addition to scrolling through my website a lot. Combined with the pauses…

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    Jason and I went through my project in multiple different ways. He started out by asking me to give him an elevator pitch to explain my project. I then went through my website and explained each part to him. I liked doing this because it gave me practice presenting and pulling all of the research…

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    I am going to use GIS and Story Maps in my project. Because these two tools are made by the same ArcGIS platform, I think that it makes sense to use them together since I will be doing so much mapping. Story Maps will allow me to embed my GIS maps easily and allow the…